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Sacred founders : women, men, and gods in the discourse of imperial founding, Rome through early Byzantine / by Angelova, Diliana, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Founding, power, and authority: Mediterranean history and Augustan innovations -- Founding and afterlife -- Women and founding from Livia to Helena -- The Christian founders Constantine and Helena -- Constantine's and Helena's legacy in the founding of public space -- Imperial women and civic founding -- Koinonia : the Christian founders' legacy in the symbolism of authority -- Christian piety and the making of a Christian discourse of imperial founding -- Church-building and founding -- The Virgin Mary and the discourse of imperial founders.…”
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Ministers and masters Methodism, manhood, and honor in the old South / by Carney, Charity R., 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Methodist manhood -- The patriarchy of the pulpit -- Southern honor and the minister's family -- Children, obedience, and authority -- The spiritual slave.…”
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Religion and the body modern science and the construction of religious meaning /

Table of Contents: “…Neurobiology and sources of religious experience and authority -- section 2. Culture and the de- and re-construction of the body -- section 3. …”
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Religion and politics in international relations : the modern myth / by Fitzgerald, Timothy, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas, religion resurging, and international relations -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd : the politics of secularism in international relations -- Where the author stands : a question of commitment.…”
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Religion and politics in international relations : the modern myth / by Fitzgerald, Timothy, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas, religion resurging, and international relations -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd : the politics of secularism in international relations -- Where the author stands : a question of commitment.…”
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Participatory Biblical exegesis a theology of Biblical interpretation / by Levering, Matthew, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Late-medieval nominalism and participatory Biblical exegesis -- From Aquinas to Raymond Brown -- Participatory Biblical exegesis and God the teacher -- Participatory Biblical exegesis and human teachers -- Participatory Biblical exegesis and ecclesial authority.…”
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The rhetoric of power in late antiquity religion and politics in Byzantium, Europe and the early Islamic world /

Table of Contents: “…The image of political and episcopal authority -- pt. 2. The function of Roman tradition in emergent societies -- pt. 3. …”
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Mighty stories, dangerous rituals weaving together the human and the divine / by Anderson, Herbert, 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The authors -- The power of storytelling -- Ritualizing our stories -- Connecting the divine and human narratives -- Welcoming the child -- Preparing for marriage -- Encountering death -- Creating new rituals -- Revitalizing rituals with stories -- Reconciling stories and rituals -- Epilogue.…”
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Critical reflections on religion and media in contemporary Bali by Fox, Richard, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: a tale of bouquets and bombsites -- Reframing the problem: mediating the recent history of 'the Balinese' -- The subject of tolerance: televising 'the teachings of our religion' -- Assume the position: performative style and the voice of authority -- Substantial transmissions: religion and the idea of 'the old Javanese text' -- Plus Ça change: from textual fetish to performative accomplishment -- A dramatic performance: mpu kuturan and the three sanctuaries -- The complexity of the realm: chasing a traditional tale.…”
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Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / by Vacek, Heather H., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger.…”
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Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health / by Ritchey, Sara Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Translating care: the circulation of healing stories -- Bedside comforts: the social organization of care -- Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority -- Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities -- Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys.…”
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Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health / by Ritchey, Sara Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Translating care: the circulation of healing stories -- Bedside comforts: the social organization of care -- Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority -- Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities -- Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys.…”
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Humanizing the sacred : sisters in Islam and the struggle for gender justice in Malaysia / by Basarudin, Azza

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: faith, self, and community -- Islam, the state, and gender: the malaysian experiment -- The politics of the sacred: returning to the fundamentals of Islam -- In the path of the faithful: activism for social and legal reforms -- Who speaks for Islam? Religious authority and contested justice -- Negotiating lives, crafting selves: narratives of belonging -- The local in the transnational: gender justice and feminist solidarities -- Conclusion.…”
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The church and the land by McNabb, Vincent, 1868-1943

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Aquinas on town planning -- A tale of two cities -- The problem of unemployment -- A challenge to modern industrial methods -- The decay of dancing -- The economics of a riot -- The economics of the exodus -- The end of the wage system -- Do it ourselves -- The British association and the wage system -- The incubus of industrialism -- Looking towards the east -- The modern town and birth control -- Nazareth measures -- Nature and unemployment -- The new industrial charter -- A grammar of unemployment -- Authority and property -- The arrival of a fact -- Rights of the parent -- Agricultural mass production -- A window in Wisbech -- Wisdom at Cardiff -- The widowed land -- Souls and the land -- The social need of flying the occasions of sin -- Is it socialism? …”
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Music, theology, and worship selected writings, 1841-1896 /

Table of Contents: “…Potter ; Hints concerning church music, the liturgy, and related subjects (1857) / James M. Hewins ; The Bible authority for church music (1875) / Wilbur Fisk Crafts ; The evolution of church music (1896) / F. …”
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Repentance for the Holocaust : Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past / by Chung, C. K. Martin

Table of Contents: “…Turning in the God-human relationship -- Interhuman and collective repentance -- People, not devils -- Fascism was the great apostasy -- The French must love the German spirit now entrusted to them -- One cannot speak of injustice without raising the question of guilt -- You won't believe how thankful I am for what you have said -- Courage to say no and still more courage to say yes -- Raise our voice, both Jews and Germans -- The appropriateness of each proposition depends upon who utters it -- Hitler is in ourselves, too -- I am Germany -- Know before whom you will have to give an account -- We take over the guilt of the fathers -- Remember the evil, but do not forget the good -- We are not authorized to forgive.…”
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Repentance for the Holocaust : Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past / by Chung, C. K. Martin

Table of Contents: “…Turning in the God-human relationship -- Interhuman and collective repentance -- People, not devils -- Fascism was the great apostasy -- The French must love the German spirit now entrusted to them -- One cannot speak of injustice without raising the question of guilt -- You won't believe how thankful I am for what you have said -- Courage to say no and still more courage to say yes -- Raise our voice, both Jews and Germans -- The appropriateness of each proposition depends upon who utters it -- Hitler is in ourselves, too -- I am Germany -- Know before whom you will have to give an account -- We take over the guilt of the fathers -- Remember the evil, but do not forget the good -- We are not authorized to forgive.…”
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Contemporary spiritualities : enchanted worlds of nature, wellbeing and mystery in Italy / by Palmisano, Stefania, Pannofino, Nicola

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Is Judaism Democratic? : Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages /

Table of Contents: “…Soltes -- Dignity and democracy: defending the principle of the sanctity of human life / Alan Mittleman -- "The will of the people" or "the will of the rabbis": democracy and the rabbis' authority / Shlomo Abramovich -- The Jewish State and the end of democratic Judaism / Meirav Jones.…”
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Is Judaism Democratic? : Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages /

Table of Contents: “…Soltes -- Dignity and democracy: defending the principle of the sanctity of human life / Alan Mittleman -- "The will of the people" or "the will of the rabbis": democracy and the rabbis' authority / Shlomo Abramovich -- The Jewish State and the end of democratic Judaism / Meirav Jones.…”
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