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Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? gender and covenant in Judaism / by Cohen, Shaye J. D.

Table of Contents: “…Jewish circumcision and Christian polemics. A canonical history of Jewish circumcision -- Were Jewish women ever circumcised? …”
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Disputation by decree the public disputations between Reformed ministers and Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert as instruments of religious policy during the Dutch Revolt (1577-1583) / by Roobol, Marianne

Table of Contents: “…Wartime polemics : on the public church -- Room for debate : a question of tolerance? …”
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Why this new race ethnic reasoning in early Christianity / by Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…"Worshippers of so-called Gods, Jews, and Christians" : religion in ethnoracial discourses -- "We were before the foundation of the world" : appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition -- "We, quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel" : Christian claims to peoplehood -- "A Genos saved by nature" : ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic -- "From every race of humans" : ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism.…”
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The claims of poverty literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / by Crassons, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Forms of need: the allegorical representation of poverty in Piers Plowman -- Poverty exposed: the evangelical and epistemological ideal of Pierce the Ploughman's crede -- "Clamerous" beggars and "nedi" knights: poverty and Wycliffite reform -- The costs of sanctity: Margery Kempe and the Franciscan imaginary -- Communal identities: performing poverty, charity, and labor in York's Corpus Christi theater -- Nickel and dimed: poverty polemic medieval and modern.…”
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God-fearing and free a spiritual history of America's Cold War / by Stevens, Jason W., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Christianity, reason, and the national character -- Origins of an ailing polemic -- Pt. 2. Narratives of blindness and insight in an era of confession. …”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Gendering the history of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Patrick Pasture -- The Catholic poor relief discourse and the feminization of the Caritas in early nineteenth-century Germany / Bernhard Schneider -- Celibate or married priests? Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? …”
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Syphilis : Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France / by Losse, Deborah N., 1944-

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