Search Results - "cult"

Cargo Cult : Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond

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Ensayo sobre el espíritu de las sectas / by Caillois, Roger, 1913-1978

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The Slave Soul of Russia : Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering / by Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel

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Christianity & new religious movements : an introduction to the world's newest faiths / by Cooper, Derek, 1978-

Subjects: “…Cults Case studies.…”

Communities of Saint Martin : Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours / by Farmer, Sharon A.

Subjects: “…Martin, saint, evêque de Tours, approximately 316-397 Culte France Tours.…”
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Así en la tierra como en el cielo : manifestaciones cotidianas de la culpa y el perdón en la Nueva España de los siglos XVI y XVII / by Roselló Soberón, Estela

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

Subjects: “…Contemporary non-Christian and para-Christian cults and sects. bicssc…”
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Border Crossing : Russian Literature into Film /

Table of Contents: “…"The Soviet Abroad (That We Lost)" : The Fate of Vasilii Aksenov's Cult Novel A Starry Ticket on Paper and on Screen /…”
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Maya Gods of War / by Bassie-Sweet, Karen, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Chahk deities and flint weapons -- The flint and fire deity GIII -- Classic Maya Tlaloc deities and their obsidian meteor weapons -- The Kaloomte' lords -- The offices and regalia of the Tlaloc cult -- Women in the Tlaloc cult -- God L : an obsidian and mercantile deity.…”
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Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts / by Andrews, David, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? -- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?…”
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Rhetorical Code Studies : Discovering Arguments in and around Code by Kevin Brock

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Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964 / by Treglode, Benoît de

Table of Contents: “…The Life of the Dead; Chapter 6. The Cult of the New Hero; Chapter 7. Mass Culture and the Patriotic Pantheon; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index…”
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Unconventional Sisterhood : Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines / by Claussen, Heather L., 1968-

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Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelder -- Mediterranean Encounters: Greeks, Carians, and Egyptians in the First Millennium BC / Alexandra Villing -- "I Am Isis": The Role of Speech in the Cult of Isis / Martin Bommas -- The Creation of New "Cultural Codes": The Ptolemaic Queens and Their Syncretic Processes with Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion / Olaf E. …”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? …”
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Tanna Times : Islanders in the World / by Lindstrom, Lamont, 1953-

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Mapping Shangrila : Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands /

Table of Contents: “…Contested Landscapes : Harmonious Society and Sovereign Territories -- Animate Landscapes : Nature Conservation and the Production of Agropastoral Sacred Space in Shangrila / Chris Coggins with Gesang Zeren -- The Amoral Other : State-Led Development and Mountain Deity Cults among Tibetans in Amdo Rebgong / Charlene E. …”
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The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness

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Material Fantasies : Expectations of the Western Consumer World among East Germans / by Veenis, Milena

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A Ming Confucian’s World : Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden / by Lu, Rong, 1436-1494

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