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Postmodern belief American literature and religion since 1960 / by Hungerford, Amy

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Toward a recovery of christian belief : the Rutherford lectures / by Henry, Carl F. H.

Political belief in France, 1927-1945 : gender, empire, and fascism in the Croix de feu and Parti social français / by Campbell, Caroline, 1977-

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Political belief in France, 1927-1945 : gender, empire, and fascism in the Croix de feu and Parti social fran�cais / by Campbell, Caroline, 1977-

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Nixon at the movies a book about belief / by Feeney, Mark

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Hitler's millennial Reich apocalyptic belief and the search for salvation / by Redles, David

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Modes of faith secular surrogates for lost religious belief / by Ziolkowski, Theodore

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On the prejudices, predilections, and firm beliefs of William Faulkner essays / by Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994

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Buddhist and protestant Korean immigrants religious beliefs and socioeconomic aspects of life / by Kwon, Okyun, 1960-

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Local religion in North China in the twentieth century the structure and organization of community rituals and beliefs / by Overmyer, Daniel L., 1935-

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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

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Haiti Unbound : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon / by Glover, Kaiama L., 1972-

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Naipaul's strangers by Barnouw, Dagmar

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cultural plurality and cultural value -- Understanding strangers -- Postcoloniality and historicity -- Stories of other lives : novels -- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; among the believers : an Islamic journey -- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples : Iran -- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples : Pakistan -- Uncertain histories : finding the center and the enigma of arrival -- Uncertain histories : a way in the world.…”
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Faithful vision treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…African American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism -- The centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox -- Critiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation -- Rejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of Black women's spirituality -- Reshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of hoodoo -- Conclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance.…”
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The Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford / by Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Conradian bewilderment : the metaphysics of belief -- Contingency, interpretation, and belief in Lord Jim -- The ontology of society in Nostromo -- Part III. …”
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Kant's dog on Borges, philosophy, and the time of translation / by Johnson, David E., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: philosophy, literature, and the accidents of translation -- Time: for Borges -- Belief, in translation -- Kant's dog -- Decisions of hospitality -- Idiocy, the name of God -- Afterword: the secret of culture.…”
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The color of law Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the struggle for labor and civil rights / by Babson, Steve

Table of Contents: “…In dark times -- Out of the ghetto -- Taking a stand -- Home front -- Hard landing -- Winter soldier -- Getting by -- Conspiracy of belief -- Southern exposure -- Mississippi -- Rebellion and reaction -- Attica -- The longer view.…”
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Morals Not Knowledge : Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict between Religion and Science / by Evans, John Hyde, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The religion and science advocates in the academic debate -- The academic analysts of the relationship between religion and science -- Recent transformation of elite academic and public debates -- Existing research on the public -- Empirical tests of knowledge and belief conflict for the religious public -- Empirical tests of moral conflict for the religious public -- Conclusion.…”
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The trouble with Sauling around conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002 / by Walker, Madeline Ruth, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the trouble with conversion -- Conversion and the intractable Saul : The autobiography of Malcolm X -- Conversion, deconversion, and reversion : Oscar Zeta Acosta's autofictions -- Serial conversion and Pauling around: Amiri Baraka's The autobiography of Leroi Jones -- Converting the church : Richard Rodriguez and the browning of catholicism -- Conclusion: Unlinking religious belief and identity.…”
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Humanity a moral history of the twentieth century / by Glover, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…War as a trap -- pt. 5. Belief and terror : Stalin and his years -- pt. 6. …”
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