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    The cult of Saint Thecla a tradition of women's piety in late antiquity / by Davis, Stephen J.

    Published 2001
    Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The cult of Saint Thecla in Asia Minor -- pt. 2. The cult of Saint Thecla in Egypt.…”
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    Cult, culture, and authority Princess Liẽ̂u Hạnh in Vietnamese history / by Dror, Olga

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Writing hagiographies, creating history -- The appearance of Liẽ̂u Hạnh's cult -- Contending narratives in classical voices -- Vernacularization of the sublime -- From superstition to cultural tradition.…”
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    The cult of the revolutionary tradition : the Blanquists in French politics, 1864 - 1893 / by Hutton, Patrick H.

    Published 1981
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    Historical dictionary of new religious movements by Chryssides, George D., 1945-

    Published 2012
    Subjects: “…Cults Dictionaries.…”
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    The Buddhist goddess Marishiten : a study of the evolution and impact of her cult on the Japanese warrior / by Hall, David A.

    Published 2014
    Subjects: “…Marici (Buddhist deity) Cult Japan History.…”
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    Aspects of ancient Greek cult context, ritual and iconography /

    Published 2009
    Subjects: “…Cults Greece History Congresses.…”
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    Sects, cults, and spiritual communities a sociological analysis /

    Published 1998
    Subjects: “…Cults United States History 20th century.…”
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    Holy bones, holy dust how relics shaped the history of Medieval Europe / by Freeman, Charles, 1947-

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the making of a martyr -- How the Christian relic emerged -- The incorruptible flesh of the martyrs -- Creating a Christian landscape -- The battle for acceptance -- The view from Byzantium -- Bishops, magic and relics in the post-Roman world -- 'A barbarous, fierce and unbelieving nation' -- The great consolidator -- Hope and desperation in a disordered world -- Cults and the rise of anti-semitism -- Fervent Christian pilgrims -- 'The eyes are fed with gold-bedecked reliquaries' -- Looting the East -- Louis IX and the Sainte-Chapelle -- Sacred flesh between death and resurrection -- 'Christ's recruits ... fight back' -- Protectors of il Popolo -- The Virgin Mary and the penitent whore -- The wondrous blood of Christ -- Rescuers and devils -- 'Of far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands' -- 'dead images that ... may not ... help any man of any disease' -- Protestantism and the new iconoclasm -- Intimations of reality -- Reasserting the miraculous -- Within the community of the supernatural.…”
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    Shōtoku ethnicity, ritual, and violence in the Japanese Buddhist tradition / by Como, Michael

    Published 2008
    Subjects: “…Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622? Cult.…”
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    Heroes & hero cults in Latin America

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : heroes and their cults in modern Latin America / Ben Fallaw and Samuel Brunk -- Simón Bolívar : man and myth / John Chasteen -- Remembering and forgetting Agustín Gamarra : the life and legacy of the Cuzco caudillo / Charles F. …”
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    St. Demetrius of Thessalonica cult and devotion in the Middle Ages / by Russell, Eugenia, 1976-

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: cult and devotion in the city of Demetrius -- Intertextuality in the Encomia -- Convention and originality: the athlete of Christ -- Internal literary evidence for the festival of the saint -- Signs of the times: responses to contemporary life.…”
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