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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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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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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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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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Hidden heritage the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / by Jacobs, Janet Liebman

Table of Contents: “…Secrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of Jewishness -- Women and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestry -- The self-in-relation and the transformation of religious consciousness -- Syncretism and faith blending in modern Crypto-Judaism -- Conversion and the rekindling of the Jewish soul -- Jewish ancestry and the social construction of ethnic identity -- Conclusion. …”
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Shi'ism a religion of protest / by Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Shi'ism and the crisis of cultural modernity -- On ressentiment and the politics of despair -- Toward an aesthetics of emancipation -- Contemporary contestations. Toward a new syncretic cosmopolitanism -- The un/making of a politics of despair -- Contemporary sites of contestation.…”
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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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Convivial constellations in Latin America : from colonial to contemporary times /

Table of Contents: “…Conviviality between norm and praxis: Imperial conviviality: producing difference in the TransAtlantic Iberian world / Karen Graubart -- Mestizaje and conviviality in Brazil, Colombia And Mexico / Peter Wade -- Syncretism and pluralism in the configuration of religious diversity in Brazil / Paula Montero -- Part 3. …”
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The bioarchaeology of individuals

Table of Contents: “…Sava -- Mortuary Evidence for Maya Political Resistance and Religious Syncretism in Colonial Belize / Gabriel D. Wrobel -- Part 2. …”
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Youth and age in the medieval north

Table of Contents: “…The challenges of quantifying youth and age in the medieval North / Shannon Lewis-Simpson -- Forever young : child burial in Anglo-Saxon England / Christina Lee -- Constructions of early childhood at the syncretic cemetery of Fjälkinge : a case study / Lotta Mejsholm -- Child burials and children's status in medieval Norway / Berit J. …”
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