Search Results - "secularism"

Sacred music in secular society / by Arnold, Jonathan

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From faith to fun : the secularisation of humour / by Heddendorf, Russell

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Time exposure the personal experience of time in secular societies / by Fenn, Richard K.

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Singing in my soul black gospel music in a secular age / by Jackson, Jerma A.

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Why the French don't like headscarves Islam, the State, and public space / by Bowen, John Richard, 1951-

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Hijab & the republic uncovering the French headscarf debate / by Winter, Bronwyn, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Contextualizing the debate: A very modern tradition : background to the "new veiling" ; The "cornerstone of the republic" : secularism and the regulation of religion ; French Muslims : between "integration" and "Muslimism" -- pt. 2. …”
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Electronic elsewheres media, technology, and the experience of social space /

Table of Contents: “…Violence, publicity, and secularism : Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat /…”
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Never say die! : a thousand years of Yiddish in Jewish life and letters /

Table of Contents: “…Educational assessment of the Yiddish secular school movements in the United States /…”
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Globalization challenged conviction, conflict, community / by Rupp, George

Table of Contents: “…Conviction in an age of globalization -- Local conflict, global migration -- Globalization and the challenge of inclusive community -- Jagdish Bhagwati : arguing for pluralism -- Jeremy Waldron, secularism and the limits of community -- Wayne Proudfoot : religious convictions and global justice -- Another look at conflict, community, and conviction.…”
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Music in other words Victorian conversations / by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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The rise of modern Yiddish culture / by Fishman, David E., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of modern Yiddish culture : an overview -- The politics of Yiddish -- Language and revolution : Hevrat mefitse haskalah in 1905 -- The Bund's contribution -- Reinventing community -- New trends in interwar Yiddish culture -- The Judaism of secular Yiddishists -- Commemoration and cultural conflict : the Vilna Gaon's bicentennary -- Max Weinreich and the development of YIVO -- Embers plucked from the fire : the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna.…”
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The rise of modern Yiddish culture / by Fishman, David E., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of modern Yiddish culture : an overview -- The politics of Yiddish -- Language and revolution : Hevrat mefitse haskalah in 1905 -- The Bund's contribution -- Reinventing community -- New trends in interwar Yiddish culture -- The Judaism of secular Yiddishists -- Commemoration and cultural conflict : the Vilna Gaon's bicentennary -- Max Weinreich and the development of YIVO -- Embers plucked from the fire : the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna.…”
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America / by Darsey, James Francis

Table of Contents: “…Debs -- The word in darkness -- A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic -- Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch -- Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights -- The seraph and the snake.…”
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How happy to call oneself a Turk provincial newspapers and the negotiation of a Muslim national identity / by Brockett, Gavin D.

Table of Contents: “…Imagining the secular nation : Mustafa Kemal and the creation of modern Turkey -- Narrating the nation : print culture and the nationalist historical narrative -- Provincial newspapers and the emergence of a national print culture -- Religious print media and the national print culture -- Muslim Turks against Russian communists : the Turkish nation in the emerging Cold War world -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Mehmed the Conqueror : negotiating a national historical narrative -- Religious reactionaries or Muslim Turks? …”
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Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas /

Table of Contents: “…. -- The quest for spiritual purpose in a secular dance community : Bele's rebirth in contemporary Martinique / Camee Maddox-Wingfield -- Embodying Black religion : the ethics and aesthetics of Afro-diasporic Muslim hip-hop in Britain / Jeanette S. …”
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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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Perspectives on Science and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Representations of the origin of species in secular (France) and religious (Morocco) contexts -- pt. 3. …”
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Invisible population the place of the dead in East Asian megacities /

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