Search Results - "African Americans"

From pews to polling places faith and politics in the American religious mosaic /

Table of Contents: “…Quin Monson -- Liberation to mutual fund : political consequences of differing conceptions of Christ in the African American church / Melissa Harris-Lacewell -- Power in the pews? …”
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Inventing English a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /

Table of Contents: “…Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.…”
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Archaeology of Louisiana

Table of Contents: “…Perttula -- The Spanish in northwest Louisiana, 1721-1773 / George Avery -- French colonial archaeology / Rob Mann -- African American archaeology / Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth, and David T. …”
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The trickster revisited deception as a motif in the Pentatech / by Nicholas, Dean Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; History of the problem ; Gunkel and the savage mind ; Comparative approach ; Source critical approach ; The trickster in anthropology ; The rise of anthropology and its use in biblical studies ; Cross-cultural uses of the trickster ; Native American usage ; African usage ; African-American usage ; Attempts at universal explanations ; Understanding of trickster in the ancient near east and the Bible ; Tricksters in the ancient near east ; Tricksters in the Hebrew Bible -- The trickster and liminality. …”
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Archaeology of Louisiana

Table of Contents: “…Perttula -- The Spanish in northwest Louisiana, 1721-1773 / George Avery -- French colonial archaeology / Rob Mann -- African American archaeology / Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth, and David T. …”
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The trickster revisited deception as a motif in the Pentatech / by Nicholas, Dean Andrew, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; History of the problem ; Gunkel and the savage mind ; Comparative approach ; Source critical approach ; The trickster in anthropology ; The rise of anthropology and its use in biblical studies ; Cross-cultural uses of the trickster ; Native American usage ; African usage ; African-American usage ; Attempts at universal explanations ; Understanding of trickster in the ancient near east and the Bible ; Tricksters in the ancient near east ; Tricksters in the Hebrew Bible -- The trickster and liminality. …”
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Inventing English a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /

Table of Contents: “…Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.…”
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Well-read lives how books inspired a generation of American women / by Sicherman, Barbara

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Well-read lives how books inspired a generation of American women / by Sicherman, Barbara

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Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress /

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Psychology of stress

Table of Contents: “…Keyes -- An effective trial to increase psychological well-being and reduce stress among African American blue collar working women / Linda Napholz -- Stress management interventions for medical populations / Wendy G. …”
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Psychology of stress

Table of Contents: “…Keyes -- An effective trial to increase psychological well-being and reduce stress among African American blue collar working women / Linda Napholz -- Stress management interventions for medical populations / Wendy G. …”
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Lincoln lessons reflections on America's greatest leader /

Table of Contents: “…McPherson -- Lincoln and African American memory / Edna Greene Medford -- Suspension of habeas corpus / Sandra Day O'Connor -- Lincoln and the meaning of equality: how I became a "lost cause" apostate / Mackubin Thomas Owens -- Crossing borders to an international Lincoln / William D. …”
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Lincoln lessons reflections on America's greatest leader /

Table of Contents: “…McPherson -- Lincoln and African American memory / Edna Greene Medford -- Suspension of habeas corpus / Sandra Day O'Connor -- Lincoln and the meaning of equality: how I became a "lost cause" apostate / Mackubin Thomas Owens -- Crossing borders to an international Lincoln / William D. …”
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Jews and Humor /

Table of Contents: “…Del Negro -- One clove away from a pomander ball : the subversive tradition of Jewish female comedians / Joyce Antler -- Heckling the divine : Woody Allen, the Book of Job, and Jewish theology after the Holocaust / Jason Kalman -- Tragicomedy and zikkaron in Mel Brooks's "To be or not to be" / Joan Latchaw and David Peterson -- "They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore" : the musical humor of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys in historical and geographical perspective / Theodore Albrecht -- The new Jewish blackface : African American tropes in contemporary Jewish humor / David Gillota.…”
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From Curlers to Chainsaws : Women and Their Machines /

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgments; Hearth and Home; Norma Tilden -- Maytag Washer, 1939; Joyce Dyer -- My Mother's Singer; Psyche Williams-Forson -- If You Can't Stand the Heat: Ruminations on the Stove from an African American Woman; Rebecca McClanahan -- Sad-Iron, Glad-Iron; Joy Castro -- Grip; Bedroom and Birthing Room; E.J. …”
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A Force for Change : The Class of 1950 / by Norberg, John

Table of Contents: “…"Look at all those free people" : the African-American experience -- Chapter 9. "It was a fantastic time" : from radar through space -- Chapter 10. …”
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