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

    Published 2010
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    Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels / by Zanfagna, Christina, 1980-

    Published 2017
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    Speaking in the medieval world

    Published 2003
    “…Cultures, beliefs, and traditions ;…”
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    Naipaul's strangers by Barnouw, Dagmar

    Published 2003
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cultural plurality and cultural value -- Understanding strangers -- Postcoloniality and historicity -- Stories of other lives : novels -- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; among the believers : an Islamic journey -- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples : Iran -- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples : Pakistan -- Uncertain histories : finding the center and the enigma of arrival -- Uncertain histories : a way in the world.…”
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    Faithful vision treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…African American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism -- The centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox -- Critiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation -- Rejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of Black women's spirituality -- Reshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of hoodoo -- Conclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance.…”
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    The Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford / by Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

    Published 1987
    Table of Contents: “…Conradian bewilderment : the metaphysics of belief -- Contingency, interpretation, and belief in Lord Jim -- The ontology of society in Nostromo -- Part III. …”
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    Divine deviants the dialectics of devotion in the poetry of Donne and Rumi / by Mannani, Manijeh, 1964-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The context -- The philosophical fundamentals of belief -- Religious obligation and mystical transcendence -- The intellectual character of their work and its manifestation therein -- Figuring love -- Conclusion.…”
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    Kant's dog on Borges, philosophy, and the time of translation / by Johnson, David E., 1959-

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: philosophy, literature, and the accidents of translation -- Time: for Borges -- Belief, in translation -- Kant's dog -- Decisions of hospitality -- Idiocy, the name of God -- Afterword: the secret of culture.…”
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    Brothers estranged heresy, Christianity, and Jewish identity in late antiquity / by Schremer, Adiel

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…: destruction, defeat, and identity crisis -- Conceptualizing minut : the denial of God and the renunciation of his people -- Laws of minim -- Becoming minut : labeling the early Christians as minim -- Christian belief and rabbinic faith -- Significant brothers -- Conclusion: A different perspective.…”
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    The trouble with Sauling around conversion in ethnic American autobiography, 1965-2002 / by Walker, Madeline Ruth, 1958-

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the trouble with conversion -- Conversion and the intractable Saul : The autobiography of Malcolm X -- Conversion, deconversion, and reversion : Oscar Zeta Acosta's autofictions -- Serial conversion and Pauling around: Amiri Baraka's The autobiography of Leroi Jones -- Converting the church : Richard Rodriguez and the browning of catholicism -- Conclusion: Unlinking religious belief and identity.…”
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    Ethics and the English novel from Austen to Forster by Wainwright, Valerie, 1951-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Modes and sensibilities : varieties of ethical thought -- Narrative perspectives -- On being un/reasonable : Mansfield Park and the limits of persuasion -- Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and south : Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the liberal ethic -- On goods, virtues and Hard times -- Anatomizing excellence : Middlemarch, moral saints and the languages of belief -- The magic in Mentalité : Hardy's native returns -- Howards End and the confession of imperfection.…”
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