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Syncretic arenas : essays on postcolonial African drama and theatre for Esiaba Irobi /

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Beyond conversion and syncretism indigenous encounters with missionary Christianity, 1800-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Conversion and its complexities -- pt. II. Syncretism and its alternatives.…”
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A Theology of the in-between the value of syncretic process / by Starkloff, Carl F., 1933-2008

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Eclecticism and modern Hindu discourse by Hatcher, Brian A. (Brian Allison)

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The solidarity of kin ethnohistory, religious studies, and the Algonkian-French religious encounter / by Morrison, Kenneth M.

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Reconfiguring institutions across time and space syncretic responses to challenges of political and economic transformation /

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The old master a syncretic reading of the Laozi from the Mawangdui text A onward / by Kim, Hongkyung, 1959-

“…Syncretic reading of the Laozi from the Mawangdui text A onward…”
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Genealogías del presente : conversión, colonialismo, cultura / by Dube, Saurabh

Subjects: “…Syncretism (Religion) fast (OCoLC)fst01141119 165707…”
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Caciques and Cemí idols the web spun by Taíno rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / by Oliver, José R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Webs of interaction : human beings, other beings, and many things -- Personhood and the animistic Amerindian perspective -- Contrasting animistic and naturalistic worldviews -- The Cemí reveals its personhood and its body form -- Cemí idols and Taínoan idolatry -- Cemís and personal identities -- The power and potency of the Cemís -- The display of Cemís : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function -- Face-to-face interactions : Cemís, idols, and the native political elite -- Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cemí idols -- The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of Cemí icons -- Cemís : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep -- Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques -- Ancestor Cemís and the Cemíification of the caciques -- The guaíza face masks : gifts of the living for the living -- The circulation of chief's names, women, and Cemís : between the greater and lesser Antilles -- Up in arms : Taíno freedom fighters in Higüey and Boriquén -- The virgin Mary icons and native Cemís : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba -- Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads toward new identities -- Final remarks.…”
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Allies at odds the Andean church and its indigenous agents, 1583-1671 / by Charles, John, 1970-

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The sun god and the savior the christianization of the Nahua and Totonac of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico / by Stresser-Péan, Guy

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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / by Franke, Damon, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Literary paganism and the heresy of syncretism;…”
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New approaches to the study of religion.

Table of Contents: “…New approaches to the study of syncretism /…”
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Gender, sexuality and colonial modernities

Table of Contents: “…Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood : theosophy and the colonial syncretic /…”
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Maya worldviews at conquest

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Russian opera and the symbolist movement by Morrison, Simon Alexander, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Chaikovsky and decadence -- Rimsky-Korsakov and religious syncretism -- Scriabin and theurgy -- Prokofiev and mimesis.…”
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Phi theory phi-features across modules and interfaces /

Table of Contents: “…/ David Adger and Daniel Harbour -- Features on bound pronouns / Irene Heim -- On the semantic markedness of phi-features / Uli Sauerland -- Phi-agree and theta-related case / Milan Rezac -- Conditions on phi-agree / Susana Bejar -- Phi-feature competition in morphology and syntax / Martha McGinnis -- Discontinuous agreement and the syntax--morphology interface / Daniel Harbour -- Third-person marking in menominee / Jochen Trommer -- When is a syncretism more than a syncretism? / Heidi Harley -- Where's phi? …”
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Cultural memory resistance, faith & identity / by Rodriguez, Jeanette, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The concept of cultural memory -- The power of image -- The power of secrecy and ceremony -- The power of narrative -- The power of syncretism/inculturation -- Final thoughts.…”
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Negotiating Afropolitanism essays on borders and spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore /

Table of Contents: “…Border crossings, precarity, syncretism -- pt. 2. Dissidence, absence, transgression -- pt. 3. …”
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An introduction to the literature of Equatorial Guinea between colonialism and dictatorship / by Lewis, Marvin A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The essay in Equatorial Guinea : Hispanidad, cultural syncretism, and the search for Guineidad -- Poetry: in search of an authentic voice -- The short story : a genre in search of authors -- Drama : oral and written for the stage -- The early Equatorial Guinean novel : writing under colonialism -- The contemporary novel : Hispanidad and Guineidad interrogated--again.…”
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