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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!"…”
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"In the Light of Likeness - Transformed" : The Literary Art of Leon Forrest / by Williams, Dana A., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: Black cultural traditions and Leon Forrest's healing narratives -- The meteor in the man-The artistic light of Leon Forrest -- To survival and beyond: the journey motif and transcendence in There is a Tree More Ancient than Eden -- "Salvation is the issue": Black music as metaphor in The Bloodworth Orphans -- "Learn it to the Younguns": Bearing witness to the blues in Two Wings to Veil My Face -- Though I am many, I am yet still one: reinvention in Divine Days -- "The transformation of grief": self-invention and survival in Meteor in the Madhouse.…”
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Roman Fever : Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing / by Formichella Elsden, Annamaria, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…A tale of import so divine : new women in the Old World -- I forgot myself : nation and identity in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's travel writing -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune dispatches and the nineteenth-century body politic -- Domesticity and nationalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento -- How can I write down the flowers? …”
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Paul, grace and freedom essays in honour of John K. Riches /

Table of Contents: “…Barclay -- 'Everything is clean' and 'everything that is not of faith is sin' : the logic of Pauline casuistry in Romans 14.1-15.13 / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- 'I believe; help my unbelief!' : human faith and divine faithfulness in Mark 9.14-29 / Joel Marcus -- Paul and Matthew on the Torah : theory and practice / David C. …”
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Paul, grace and freedom essays in honour of John K. Riches /

Table of Contents: “…Barclay -- 'Everything is clean' and 'everything that is not of faith is sin' : the logic of Pauline casuistry in Romans 14.1-15.13 / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- 'I believe; help my unbelief!' : human faith and divine faithfulness in Mark 9.14-29 / Joel Marcus -- Paul and Matthew on the Torah : theory and practice / David C. …”
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Approaches to meaning in music

Table of Contents: “…The divining rod : on imagination, interpretation, and analysis / Edward Pearsall and Byron Almén -- Anatomy of a gesture : from Davidovsky to Chopin and back / Patrick McCreless -- Anti-teleological art : articulating meaning through silence / Edward Pearsall -- The troping of temporality in music / Robert S. …”
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Wise and foolish virgins white women at work in the feminized world of primary school teaching / by Galman, Sally Campbell

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction and Reader's Guide -- Section I -- Chapter 1: The Windy Side of Care -- Chapter 2: No other but a Woman's Reason -- Section II -- Chapter 3: Seeking to Understand: Methods of Inquiry -- Chapter 4: The Moral Careers of Wives, Mothers and Others -- Chapter 5: Divining the Hand of Destiny -- Chapter 6: Planning for Temporary Experience and Other Horizons -- Section III -- Chapter 7: For Goodness Sake, Consider What You Do -- Chapter 8: Sweet are the Uses of Adversity -- Conclusion: Boldness, Be My Friend -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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Migrating Fictions : Twentieth-Century Internal Displacements and Race in U.S. Women's Literature / by Manzella, Abigail G. H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.…”
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Approaches to meaning in music

Table of Contents: “…The divining rod : on imagination, interpretation, and analysis / Edward Pearsall and Byron Almén -- Anatomy of a gesture : from Davidovsky to Chopin and back / Patrick McCreless -- Anti-teleological art : articulating meaning through silence / Edward Pearsall -- The troping of temporality in music / Robert S. …”
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Wise and foolish virgins white women at work in the feminized world of primary school teaching / by Galman, Sally Campbell

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction and Reader's Guide -- Section I -- Chapter 1: The Windy Side of Care -- Chapter 2: No other but a Woman's Reason -- Section II -- Chapter 3: Seeking to Understand: Methods of Inquiry -- Chapter 4: The Moral Careers of Wives, Mothers and Others -- Chapter 5: Divining the Hand of Destiny -- Chapter 6: Planning for Temporary Experience and Other Horizons -- Section III -- Chapter 7: For Goodness Sake, Consider What You Do -- Chapter 8: Sweet are the Uses of Adversity -- Conclusion: Boldness, Be My Friend -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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Migrating Fictions : Twentieth-Century Internal Displacements and Race in U.S. Women's Literature / by Manzella, Abigail G. H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.…”
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Ritual Irony : Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides / by Foley, Helene P., 1942-

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Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Jacob Olupona, Harvard University, Divinity School -- Introduction: Embodiment and relationality in religions of Africa and its diaspora / Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. …”
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Ritual Irony : Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides / by Foley, Helene P., 1942-

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Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Jacob Olupona, Harvard University, Divinity School -- Introduction: Embodiment and relationality in religions of Africa and its diaspora / Yolanda Covington-Ward and Jeanette S. …”
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Faith, reason, and consent legislating morality in early American states / by Miller, Wm. G. (William George), 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Legislating morality : four streams of thought -- Three grounding principles for moral legislation : popular sovereignty, natural law, and divine law -- The nature of God in early American state constitutions -- The nature of man in early American state constitutions -- The constitutionality of moral legislation in early state constitutions -- A constitutional mandate : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts -- Ambiguous constitutionality : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, and South Carolina -- Contemporary scholarship and early American state legislation of morality -- Considerations for legislation of morality in the 21st century.…”
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Faith, reason, and consent legislating morality in early American states / by Miller, Wm. G. (William George), 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Legislating morality : four streams of thought -- Three grounding principles for moral legislation : popular sovereignty, natural law, and divine law -- The nature of God in early American state constitutions -- The nature of man in early American state constitutions -- The constitutionality of moral legislation in early state constitutions -- A constitutional mandate : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts -- Ambiguous constitutionality : moral legislation in post-revolutionary Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, and South Carolina -- Contemporary scholarship and early American state legislation of morality -- Considerations for legislation of morality in the 21st century.…”
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Adventures in unfashionable philosophy by Felt, James W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Preface (2008) -- On being yourself (1968) -- Invitation to a philosophic revolution (1971) -- the temporality of divine freedom (1974) -- Philosophic understanding and the continuity of becoming (1978) -- Transmutation and Whitehead's elephant (1981) -- Coming around again in philosophy (1982) -- Impossible worlds (1983) -- God's choice : reflections on evil in a created world (1984) -- Whitehead's misconception of "substance" in Aristotle (1985) -- Intuition, event-atomism, and the self (1987) -- Faces of time (1987) -- Fatalism and truth about the future (1992) -- Relational realism and the great deception of sense (1994) -- Why possible worlds aren't (1996) -- Proposal for a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming (2000) -- Epochal time and the continuity of experience (2003) -- "Know yourself!" …”
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Adventures in unfashionable philosophy by Felt, James W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Preface (2008) -- On being yourself (1968) -- Invitation to a philosophic revolution (1971) -- the temporality of divine freedom (1974) -- Philosophic understanding and the continuity of becoming (1978) -- Transmutation and Whitehead's elephant (1981) -- Coming around again in philosophy (1982) -- Impossible worlds (1983) -- God's choice : reflections on evil in a created world (1984) -- Whitehead's misconception of "substance" in Aristotle (1985) -- Intuition, event-atomism, and the self (1987) -- Faces of time (1987) -- Fatalism and truth about the future (1992) -- Relational realism and the great deception of sense (1994) -- Why possible worlds aren't (1996) -- Proposal for a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming (2000) -- Epochal time and the continuity of experience (2003) -- "Know yourself!" …”
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Philosophy of religion : thinking about faith / by Evans, C. Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Concepts of God ; The theistic concept of God ; A case study : divine foreknowledge and human freedom ; The problem of religious language ; Natural theology ; Proofs of God's existence -- Classical arguments for God's existence. …”
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