The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde : Postmodernism as Post-nationalism / by Hadchity, Therese Kaspersen, 1963-

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The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde : Postmodernism as Post-nationalism / by Hadchity, Therese Kaspersen, 1963-

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God-fearing and free a spiritual history of America's Cold War / by Stevens, Jason W., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Christianity, reason, and the national character -- Origins of an ailing polemic -- Pt. 2. Narratives of blindness and insight in an era of confession. …”
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God-fearing and free a spiritual history of America's Cold War / by Stevens, Jason W., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Christianity, reason, and the national character -- Origins of an ailing polemic -- Pt. 2. Narratives of blindness and insight in an era of confession. …”
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Legal friction law, narrative, and identity politics in biblical Israel / by Hepner, Gershon

Table of Contents: “…Moses' unsuccessful attempt to resolve disputes reflects an attempt to enforce the covenant code -- Surviving the construction industry : Pharaoh's decrees force the Israelites to violate the Sabbath and the covenant code -- The remains of the day : Manna, God's seed, is resurrected by the Sabbath like the resurrection of two boys by Elijah and Elisha -- Overexposed : the Israelites' suspicion that Moses had violated the prohibition of exposing one's nakedness before God leads to the sin of the golden calf -- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow : 'the morrow of the Sabbath' in Leviticus 23:11-17 commemorates a 'high-handed' exodus -- So goodbye, dear, and amen : the priestly law of the jealous husband transforms the deuteronomic law of divorce -- Divine dermatology : Miriam's scale disease resembles a food forbidden in Leviticus 11 and constitutes a hidden polemic condoning intermarriage -- Holy war : interplay between the deuteronomic law of warfare (Deuteronomy 20:1-4), Exodus 14, and Isaiah 52:7-12 -- Blood suckers : the deuteronomic law of Amalek reflects the concern for underdogs -- Le(vite) divorce : the fate of the concubine at Giveah reflects the deuteronomic law of divorce -- Le mariage : the Benjaminites' marriage echoes the holiness code's marriage sacrament described in the law of the horticultural holiness (Leviticus 19:23-25) -- Hemorrhoid city : the Philistines' plague of hemorrhoids alludes to Pharaoh's fecal heart syndrome and to a deuteronomic law regarding the disposal of excrement -- Sticks and stones : holiness code's law of the blasphemer and Talion law allude to events involving Shimei the Son of Gera and Goliath -- Beyond the fringes : the tassel law cited in Ruth counters anti-davidic polemics associated with Tamar and Lot's daughters --…”
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Legal friction law, narrative, and identity politics in biblical Israel / by Hepner, Gershon

Table of Contents: “…Moses' unsuccessful attempt to resolve disputes reflects an attempt to enforce the covenant code -- Surviving the construction industry : Pharaoh's decrees force the Israelites to violate the Sabbath and the covenant code -- The remains of the day : Manna, God's seed, is resurrected by the Sabbath like the resurrection of two boys by Elijah and Elisha -- Overexposed : the Israelites' suspicion that Moses had violated the prohibition of exposing one's nakedness before God leads to the sin of the golden calf -- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow : 'the morrow of the Sabbath' in Leviticus 23:11-17 commemorates a 'high-handed' exodus -- So goodbye, dear, and amen : the priestly law of the jealous husband transforms the deuteronomic law of divorce -- Divine dermatology : Miriam's scale disease resembles a food forbidden in Leviticus 11 and constitutes a hidden polemic condoning intermarriage -- Holy war : interplay between the deuteronomic law of warfare (Deuteronomy 20:1-4), Exodus 14, and Isaiah 52:7-12 -- Blood suckers : the deuteronomic law of Amalek reflects the concern for underdogs -- Le(vite) divorce : the fate of the concubine at Giveah reflects the deuteronomic law of divorce -- Le mariage : the Benjaminites' marriage echoes the holiness code's marriage sacrament described in the law of the horticultural holiness (Leviticus 19:23-25) -- Hemorrhoid city : the Philistines' plague of hemorrhoids alludes to Pharaoh's fecal heart syndrome and to a deuteronomic law regarding the disposal of excrement -- Sticks and stones : holiness code's law of the blasphemer and Talion law allude to events involving Shimei the Son of Gera and Goliath -- Beyond the fringes : the tassel law cited in Ruth counters anti-davidic polemics associated with Tamar and Lot's daughters --…”
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Studies in rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity text and context /

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Représentations et attraits du christianisme dans les sources talmudiques : proposition d'un nouveau paradigme / Dan Jaffe -- "The Lord shall lift up his countenance upon you" (Numbers 6:26) : an anti-Christian polemical Midrash by the sages? / Avinoam Cohen -- On the Jewish background of Christianity / Daniel R. …”
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Studies in rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity text and context /

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Représentations et attraits du christianisme dans les sources talmudiques : proposition d'un nouveau paradigme / Dan Jaffe -- "The Lord shall lift up his countenance upon you" (Numbers 6:26) : an anti-Christian polemical Midrash by the sages? / Avinoam Cohen -- On the Jewish background of Christianity / Daniel R. …”
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Written culture in a colonial context Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 /

Table of Contents: “…Culpin -- Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description' / Nigel Penn -- Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910 / Peter Merrington -- Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century / Julio Esteban Vezub -- To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal / Lize Kriel -- Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics / Mastin Prinsloo -- The 'painting' of Black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812) / Jorge Pavez Ojeda -- On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century / Gerald Groenewald -- Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture / José Emilio Burucúa.…”
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Written culture in a colonial context Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 /

Table of Contents: “…Culpin -- Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description' / Nigel Penn -- Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910 / Peter Merrington -- Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century / Julio Esteban Vezub -- To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal / Lize Kriel -- Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics / Mastin Prinsloo -- The 'painting' of Black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812) / Jorge Pavez Ojeda -- On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century / Gerald Groenewald -- Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture / José Emilio Burucúa.…”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Gendering the history of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Patrick Pasture -- The Catholic poor relief discourse and the feminization of the Caritas in early nineteenth-century Germany / Bernhard Schneider -- Celibate or married priests? 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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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Gendering the history of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Patrick Pasture -- The Catholic poor relief discourse and the feminization of the Caritas in early nineteenth-century Germany / Bernhard Schneider -- Celibate or married priests? 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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Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts / by Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye, 1953-

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Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts / by Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye, 1953-

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Contesting neoliberalism urban frontiers /

Table of Contents: “…Theories of neoliberalism and urban strategies of contention / William Sites -- Political polemics and local practices of community organizing and neoliberal politics in South Africa / Sophie Oldfield and Kristian Stokke -- Decommodifying electricity in postapartheid Johannesburg / Patrick Bond and Peter McInnes -- Spaces of resistance in Seattle and Cancun / Joel Wainwright -- Articulating neoliberalism: diverse economies and everyday life in postsocialist cities / Adrian Smith -- Modes of governance, modes of resistance: contesting neoliberalism in Calgary / Byron Miller -- Closed borders, open markets: immigrant day laborers' struggle for economic rights / Nik Theodore -- Space patrols--the new peace-keeping functions of nonprofits: contesting neoliberalism or the urban poor? …”
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Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome by Wessel, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Leo the Great and the late Roman world that was his stage -- The study of Leo the Great -- Imperial regimes and the Roman Senate -- Structure of the empire in Italy and the West -- Ecclesiastical administration -- Advance of the barbarian kingdoms -- Survey of the life of Leo the Great -- The relationship between Rome and the western churches -- A controversy develops with the See of Arles in Southern Gaul -- Eclesiastical law is debated and settled in North Africa -- Priscillianis misconfronted in Spain -- The Vicariate of Illyricum -- Persecution and discipline in Italy -- The idea ofjustice and its bearing upon law and mercy -- Justice and its human failings -- Ecclesiastical law as the expression of justice -- The practical manifestation ofjustice in the application of mercy -- Suffering, compassion, and the care of the poor -- The theology of poverty, charity, and altruism -- The humanity of Christ as a model for compassion -- Assembling a christology -- Polemics shape the development of Christ's human nature -- The quality of Christ's humanity -- Christ as example -- The symmetry of justice -- Overturning the Robber Synod and preserving Christ's human nature -- Negotiating with the Imperial Court -- Enlisting the help of the bishops -- Elaboration of the Roman Primacy -- The idea of Apostolic succession and the Primacy of Rome -- The controversy over the 28th Canon -- The focus shifts to Anatolius -- Striving for unity after Chalcedon -- Eliciting the support of the eastern Imperial Court -- The apocrisiarius in Constantinople -- Arenewed correspondence with Anatolius -- The'City of God' unfolds in history -- Christian intellectuals respond to the sack of Rome in 410 -- Anewidea of his Tory emerges.…”
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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- The two-fold pluralism -- The polemical construction of tradition -- The construction of Prisca Theologia -- Genealogies of wisdom -- Jewish perspectives -- Beyond tradition -- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse -- Approaches to esotericism -- Secrecy as social capital -- Discourses of perfect knowledge -- Shared passions -- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration -- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity -- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy -- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics -- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words -- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah -- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah -- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache -- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history -- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology -- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology -- Interferences -- Scientific encounters -- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited -- John Dee : a scholar gone mad? …”
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Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome by Wessel, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Leo the Great and the late Roman world that was his stage -- The study of Leo the Great -- Imperial regimes and the Roman Senate -- Structure of the empire in Italy and the West -- Ecclesiastical administration -- Advance of the barbarian kingdoms -- Survey of the life of Leo the Great -- The relationship between Rome and the western churches -- A controversy develops with the See of Arles in Southern Gaul -- Eclesiastical law is debated and settled in North Africa -- Priscillianis misconfronted in Spain -- The Vicariate of Illyricum -- Persecution and discipline in Italy -- The idea ofjustice and its bearing upon law and mercy -- Justice and its human failings -- Ecclesiastical law as the expression of justice -- The practical manifestation ofjustice in the application of mercy -- Suffering, compassion, and the care of the poor -- The theology of poverty, charity, and altruism -- The humanity of Christ as a model for compassion -- Assembling a christology -- Polemics shape the development of Christ's human nature -- The quality of Christ's humanity -- Christ as example -- The symmetry of justice -- Overturning the Robber Synod and preserving Christ's human nature -- Negotiating with the Imperial Court -- Enlisting the help of the bishops -- Elaboration of the Roman Primacy -- The idea of Apostolic succession and the Primacy of Rome -- The controversy over the 28th Canon -- The focus shifts to Anatolius -- Striving for unity after Chalcedon -- Eliciting the support of the eastern Imperial Court -- The apocrisiarius in Constantinople -- Arenewed correspondence with Anatolius -- The'City of God' unfolds in history -- Christian intellectuals respond to the sack of Rome in 410 -- Anewidea of his Tory emerges.…”
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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- The two-fold pluralism -- The polemical construction of tradition -- The construction of Prisca Theologia -- Genealogies of wisdom -- Jewish perspectives -- Beyond tradition -- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse -- Approaches to esotericism -- Secrecy as social capital -- Discourses of perfect knowledge -- Shared passions -- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration -- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity -- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy -- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics -- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words -- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah -- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah -- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache -- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history -- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology -- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology -- Interferences -- Scientific encounters -- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited -- John Dee : a scholar gone mad? …”
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Secularization / by Turner, Charles, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The career of a concept; Polemical and technical; German words; Secularization is for everyone; Defining religion; Notes; 2. …”
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