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    The gospel in Hymns : Backgrounds and interpretations / by Bailey, Albert Edward

    Published 1950
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    From Kabbalah to class struggle expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener / by Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : why Meir Wiener? -- Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture -- Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna -- On the way to Yiddish and emigration -- Soviet beginnings -- Folklore, language, and the haskalah -- Yiddish realism and literary history -- Soviet literature and theory -- History and fiction -- Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.…”
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    Journey to heaven : exploring Jewish views of the afterlife / by Bronner, Leila Leah

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…-- Medieval Jewish philosophy: faith and reason -- Mysticism: reincarnation in Kabbalah -- Modernity: what do we believe? -- The Messiah: the eternal thread of hope.…”
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    Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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    Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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    Disturbers of the peace : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature / by Josephs, Kelly Baker

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Madness, Caribbeanness and the process of nation-building -- Manias and messiahs: man-man and the madness of Miguel Street -- The necessity for madness: negotiating nation in Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron -- "Fighting mad": between sides and stories in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Shared dreams and collective delirium in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- "Claims to social identity": madness and subject formation in Jane and Louisa will soon come home -- Epilogue: Madness and migration in the new millennia.…”
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    Too bold for the box office the mockumentary from big screen to small /

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…: Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed / Heather Merle Benbow -- The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah / Christopher Hansen -- THE WAR THAT WASN'T. …”
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    Indian writers transnationalisms and diasporas /

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…A story of exile and dislocation / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly and the problematization of transnational identity / Aparajita De -- Writing South Africa in diaspora : Imraan Coovadia's The wedding / Ronit Frenkel -- The Indian diaspora in Burma and the politics of globalization in Amitav Ghosh's The glass palace and Mira Kamdar's Motiba's tattoos / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Diasporas and women. …”
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