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Claiming individuality the cultural politics of distinction /

Table of Contents: “…On claiming individuality : an introduction to the issues / Vered Amit, Noel Dyck -- In the aftermath of death : presenting self, individuality and family in an Iyangar family in Chennai, 1994 / Mattison Mines -- Growing up in the Caribbean : individuality in the making / Karen Fog Olwig -- Distinction and co-construction : diaspora Asian fashion entrepreneurs in London / Parminder Bhachu -- Claiming individuality through "flexibility" : career choices and constraints among traveling consultants / Vered Amit -- A personalized journey : tourism and individuality / Julia Harrison -- Becoming educated, becoming and individual? Tropes of distinction and "modesty" in French narratives of rurality / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- An anatomy of humor : the charismatic repartee of Trevor Jeffreis in The Mitre pub / Nigel Rapport -- Proclaiming individual piety : pilgrims and religious renewal in Côte d'Ivoire / Marie Nathalie LeBlanc -- Claiming to be Croat : the risks of return to the homeland / Daphne Winland.…”
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Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism

Table of Contents: “…: evolution in the Jewish educational context / Rena Selya -- Modern Orthodoxy and evolution : the models of Rabbi J.B. …”
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New perspectives on old texts proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9-11January, 200...

Table of Contents: “…Daise -- From Enoch to John the Essene--an analysis of sect development: 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Essenes / Eyal Regev -- Education and wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls in light of their background in antiquity / Bilhah Nitzan -- The use of Scripture in 1Q/4Q mysteries / Torleif Elgvin -- "Memory and manuscript": books, scrolls, and the tradition of the Qumran texts / Lawrence H. …”
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John Dewey and Continental philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- Dewey, Gadamer, and the Status of Poetry among the Arts / David Vessey -- Educating the Self : Dewey and Foucault / C. G. Prado -- The History and Critique of Modernity: Dewey with Foucault against Weber / Colin Koopman -- Meanings, Communication, and Politics: Dewey and Derrida / Antonio Calcagno -- Eagerness for Experience : Dewey and Deleuze on the Problematic of Thinking and Learning / Inna Semetsky.…”
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Quantitative and statistical research methods from hypothesis to results / by Martin, William E. (William Eugene), 1948-

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The city in the valley biblical interpretation and urban theology / by Georgi, Dieter

Table of Contents: “…: a historical and theological meditation on the financial aspects of justification by Christ -- Bultmann was not first : Josiah Royce as interpreter of Paul -- Reason, religion, responsibility : reflections on the Frankfurt Tillich -- Praxis and theory in theological education : is scholarship "hot" or "cold"? -- En route to an urban theology : can theology help to understand urban society? …”
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The religious culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750

Table of Contents: “…: Huguenots in Ireland and Great Britain and their attitudes towards the governments religious policy (1660-1710) / Susanne Lachenicht -- The Oxford dictionary of national biography, the du Moulin Connection, and the location of the Church of England in the later seventeenth century / Vivienne Larminie -- Dominus Providebit : Huguenot commitment to poor relief in late-seventeenth and eighteenth-century England / Randolph Vigne -- Killing in good conscience : Marshal Schomberg and the Huguenot soldiers of the diaspora / Matthew Glozier -- The Huguenot soul : the Calvinism of Reverend Louis Rou / Paula Wheeler Carlo -- The influence of the Huguenots on educated Ireland : Huguenot books in Irish church libraries of the eighteenth century / Jane McKee -- The role of Huguenot tutors in John Locke's programme of social reform / S. …”
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Language without soil Adorno and late philosophical modernity /

Table of Contents: “…: the ethics of (re)education in "the meaning of 'working through the past'" / Jaimey Fisher -- Adorno nature Hegel / Theresa M. …”
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Pieties and gender

Table of Contents: “…Preface / Hans Raun Iversen -- Introduction / Lene Sjørup -- Pieties and politics -- Agency, performativity, and the feminist subject / Saba Mahmood -- The politics of piety and the norms of analysis / Robin May Schott -- Gender, religion, and human rights in Europe / Kari Elisabeth Børresen -- Sexual abstinence education and the reassertion of the "biblical" patriarchal family unit in contemporary United States / Claire Greslé-Favier -- Pieties and methodologies -- Gender and religious mobilization : global value surveys and beyond / Clyde Wilcox -- Shaking hands, shaking theologies / Lene Sjørup -- Virtuous masculinities -- In search of God's hand : on masculinity and religion / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Religious feminisation, confessionalism, and re-masculinisation in western European society, 1800-1960 / Yvonne Maria Werner -- Assessing the impact of gender ideology and sexuality in the historical pastoral and pedagogical relationship in nineteenth-century United States / Karin Erdevig Gedge -- Symbolic gender representations -- When the YWCA entered the city : the complexity of space, gender, and modernity / Hilda Rømer Christensen -- The power and ambiguity of symbols : contemporary religion and the search for a feminine divine / Jone Salomonsen.…”
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Civil society in Malerkotla, Punjab fostering resilience through religion / by Randhawa, Karenjot Bhangoo, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Identifying peacebuilding at work: notes on methodology -- The need for Sikh-Muslim analysis -- Methodological challenges -- Outline of the book -- Evolution of theories: conflict and peace -- Religion and conflict -- Peacebuilding at the state and community level -- Civil society -- The role of religion -- Group identity and space sharing -- Narratives in religious communities -- Rationale for case study in an ethnographic tradition -- Researchable questions -- Content analysis -- Ethnographic methods -- In-depth interviewing -- Sikhism and Islam: a historical look at religious constructions of peace and conflict -- Tensions in history: Sikhs and Muslims -- Islam and nonviolence in the Punjab -- Partition -- Partition's effect on Malerkotla -- Perspectives from Malerkotla -- Religion and history -- Religious historical narratives -- Understanding others religious teachings and practices -- Religious exchange -- Ideas of peace and conflict informed by sacred text/teachings/similarity in content -- Conflict incidences -- Engagement in peacebuilding activities -- Analysis of findings -- Civil society linkages -- Negotiating the collective memory: narratives of past and present -- Inclusive political processes -- Economic life and interreligious relations -- Society -- Education -- Social relations -- Conflict resolution systems -- Media -- Conclusion.…”
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Emotional intelligence theoretical and cultural perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Srivastava, Anjum Sibia and Girishwar Misra -- Emotional intelligence in education : applications & implications / Vinod K. …”
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Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

Table of Contents: “…Vergil's farewell to education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' letter to Pythocles / Diskin Clay -- Philosophy's harbor / Francesca Longo Auricchio -- Vergil's epicureanism in his early poems / Régine Chambert -- Consolation in the bucolic mode : the Epicurean cadence of Vergil's first eclogue / Gregson Davis -- A secret garden : Georgics 4.116-148 / W.R. …”
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Digital media, young adults, and religion : an international perspective /

Table of Contents: “…5 The Internet, social media, and the critical interrogation of traditional religion among young adults in Peru -- 6 A view on religious socialization in contemporary China: the role of new media, literature, education, and participation -- 7 Internet and social media use and religion among minority groups in Israel: a case study of Muslim and Druze young adults -- 8 Religion, social media, and young adults in Turkey: a case study of religious engagement and volunteering -- 9 Between tradition and innovation: social media in the religious lives of young adults in Poland…”
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Swedenborg explorer's guidebook a research manual for inquiring new readers, seekers of spiritual ideas, and writers of Swedenborgian treatises / by Woofenden, William Ross

Table of Contents: “…Swedenborg's writings -- Chronology of published works and unpublished documents -- Alphabetical listing of Swedenborg's writings -- Classification by subject of Swedenborg's writings -- Annotated bibliography of Swedenborg's writings by year -- Published and unpublished writings -- Works of uncertain authorship and projected works that were never written -- Lost works -- Selected collateral literature -- Concordances and compendiums -- Indexes -- Dictionaries -- Documentary collections -- Bibliographies -- Doctrinal summaries -- A. basic reference -- B. general -- The lord -- The word -- E. humankind -- F. love, faith, use -- G. creation, providence, freedom -- H. sex and marriage -- Regeneration -- J. life after death, the spiritual world -- Exegetical works -- A. old testament -- B. new testament -- Studies in correspondences, parables, etc -- Major biographies of Swedenborg -- Historical studies -- A. church history -- B. church polity -- Autobiographies and biographies -- Of prominent swedenborgians -- Metaphysics -- Critical studies -- A. published works -- B. theses and dissertations -- Periodicals -- A. current periodicals -- B. former periodicals -- Indexes to periodicals -- Digests, outlines, and synopses -- Studies in science and religion -- Religious education materials -- Prayer and other devotional materials -- Literature for children -- Miscellaneous -- Glossary -- Selected list of key Swedenborgian concepts -- Pre-theological concepts relevant to the history of science and philosophy -- Concepts bridging the pre-theological and theological concepts -- Revelations about humankind and our intended destiny -- Major documentary collections and booksellers.…”
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The stoics a guide for the perplexed / by Holowchak, Mark, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…-- Rest and retirement : benefiting others -- The heroic course -- Hercules at a crossroads -- The athletic paradigm : winning by endurance -- What would socrates have done? -- Education : saving the shipwrecked mariners -- Teacher as physician : towering above fortune -- Stoic curatives -- Epistemological curatives -- Ethical curatives -- Signs of progress : the contest is now.…”
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Catholic missionaries and their work with the poor : mitigating market-government failure in emerging nations / by Barrera, Albino

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The serpent's gift gnostic reflections on the study of religion / by Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John), 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The rebuke of the gnostic and the oriental Renaissance ; Comparative mystics ; Ramakrishna: colonialism, universalism, mysticism ; Doctrinal and historical-critical analysis ; Ramakrishna and the comparativist ; The critical study of religion as a modern mystical tradition ; The scandal of comparison ; Professional heresy: the gnostic study of religion -- Interlude: Logoi mystikoi; or how to think like a gnostic -- Mutant marvels. Educational and sexual allegory ; On puberty and powers ; Denying the demiurge ; Toward a more radical empiricism ; Dissociation and the release of nonordinary energies ; On death as dissociation ; Real X-Men ; On x-clusions and x-ceptions ; Political allegory; or, how (not) to be an X-Man -- Conclusion: return to the garden. …”
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Defenders and critics of Franciscan life essays in honor of John V. Fleming /

Table of Contents: “…Cusato -- Tobit's dog and the dangers of literalism : William Woodford, O.F.M., as critic of Wycliff's exegesis / Alastair Minnis -- Part II: Students and scholars -- Franciscan learning : university education and biblical exegesis / William J. Courtenay -- Using, not owning duties, not rights : the consequences of some Franciscan perspectives on politics / Janet Coleman -- Langland and the Franciscans on dominium / Lawrence M. …”
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Psychosocial aspects of disability insider perspectives and counseling strategies / by Marini, Irmo

Table of Contents: “…Glover-Graf -- Implications of social support and caregiving for loved ones with a disability / Irmo Marini -- Thriving versus succumbing to disability : psychosocial factors and positive psychology / Irmo Marini -- Counseling strategies and insights for working with persons with disabilities -- Which counseling theories and techniques work best with different disability populations and why / Michael Jay Millington -- Counseling families / Michael Jay Millington -- Ethical responsibilities in working with persons with disabilities and our duty to educate / Noreen M. Glover-Graf -- Basic do's and don'ts in counseling persons with disabilities / Michael Jay Millington -- What we counsel, teach, and research regarding the needs of persons with disabilities: what have we been missing? …”
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The drama of possibility experience as philosophy of culture / by McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932-

Table of Contents: “…-- The cultural immortality of philosophy as human drama -- To be human is to humanize : a radically empirical aesthetic -- Experience grows by its edges : a phenomenology of relations in an American philosophical vein -- The aesthetic drama of the ordinary -- Teaching -- Poem : lurking -- The gamble for excellence : John Dewey's pedagogy of experience -- Liberty and order in the educational anthropology of Maria Montessori -- The erosion of face-to-face pedagogy : a jeremiad -- Cultural literacy : a time for a new curriculum -- Trumping cynicism with imagination.…”
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