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The Messiah formerly known as Jesus dispatches from the intersection of Christianity and pop culture / by Breen, Tom

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Messiahs and resurrection in The Gabriel revelation by Knohl, Israel

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Israel's messiah and the people of God a vision for Messianic Jewish covenant fidelity / by Kinzer, Mark

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The Messianic disruption of Trinitarian theology by Zathureczky, Kornél

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Nahmanides in medieval Catalonia history, community, & messianism / by Caputo, Nina, 1966-

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Approaching the apocalypse a short history of Christian millenarianism / by Court, John M.

Table of Contents: “…Jezreel : the trumpeter and his tower -- An Anglican Israel at the end of time : the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury -- 'Somewhere a place for us' : modern utopias -- Christian missions and the cargo cults -- Figures of the Messiah : David Koresh and the Waco siege -- 'Apocalypse now' : celebrating the millennium on or after 2000 CE.…”
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Faith-based war from 9/11 to catastrophic success in Iraq / by Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith-based war -- Catastrophic success -- American blindspot -- Religious trauma -- America the beautiful -- Defending God's chosen -- City on a hill -- Alternative cities -- Amalek -- Limitless divine sanction -- Land of promise -- Wine of astonishment -- Rival traditions -- The fire of freedom -- The shining city as God -- Christian soldiers -- The president as mystic -- Drinking the Kool Aid -- Conquest as liberation -- Saddam as Hitler -- Unreal cities -- Avenging angel -- Saint George -- Christlike sacrifice -- The wrath of the Lamb -- Six-gun saviors -- Make-believe cowboys -- Messiahs on horseback -- Six-gun saviors in the White House -- Moral clarity and moral collapse -- Shock and awe -- Moral clarity in battle -- Dead certainty -- Shaken souls -- A theology of torture -- Advertising the dark side -- A theology of torture -- UnAmerican activities -- Coda: Hooded man.…”
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Contested conversions to Islam narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire / by Krstić, Tijana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : turning "Rumi" : conversion to Islam, fashioning of the Ottoman imperial ideology, and interconfessional relations in the early modern Mediterranean context -- Muslims through narratives : textual repertoires of fifteenth-century Ottoman Islam and formation of the Ottoman interpretative communities -- Toward an Ottoman Rumi identity : the polemical arena of syncretism and the debate on the place of converts in fifteenth-century Ottoman polity -- In expectation of the Messiah : interimperial rivalry, apocalypse, and conversion in sixteenth-century Muslim polemical narratives -- Illuminated by the light of Islam and the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate : self-narratives of conversion to Islam in the age of confessionalization -- Between the turban and the papal tiara : Orthodox Christian neomartyrs and their impresarios in the age of confessionalization -- Everyday communal politics of coexistence and Orthodox Christian martyrdom : a dialogue of sources and gender regimes in the age of confessionalization -- Conclusion : conversion and confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: considerations for future research.…”
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