Search Results - "Satanism"

Invisible agents spirits in a Central African history / by Gordon, David M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Seeing invisible worlds -- The passion of Chitimukulu -- Christian witches -- Satan in the city -- A new Jerusalem -- The dawn -- Devils of war -- God in heaven, Kaunda on earth -- A nation reborn -- Conclusion: The spirit realm of agency.…”
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Fuseli's Milton gallery 'turning readers into spectators' / by Calè, Luisa

Table of Contents: “…The literary galleries and the field of art -- The spectator turned reader : printed text at the galleries -- The reader turned spectator : visual narratives -- 'Satan encount'ring death, sin interposing' : Milton' s allegory and the politics of seeing -- The plot of Adam and Eve.…”
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Not of Woman Born : Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / by Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The Marginalization of Women in Obstetrics -- 4. Saintly and Satanic Obstetricians -- Appendix Creative Etymology: "Caesarean Section" from Pliny to Rousset -- Annotated List of Illustrations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Solomon the lure of wisdom / by Weitzman, Steven, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…A life in letters -- A lust for knowledge -- Succession struggles -- Solomonic judgments -- Sacred books, satanic verses -- The King of kings -- Building heaven on earth -- Mining for Solomon's gold -- Difficult questions from a dubious queen -- A thousand and one sex scandals -- Afterthoughts.…”
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The crusades and the Christian world of the East rough tolerance / by MacEvitt, Christopher Hatch, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Satan unleashed : the Christian Levant in the eleventh century -- Close encounters of the ambiguous kind : when Crusaders and locals meet -- Images of authority in Edessa, 1100-1150 -- Rough tolerance and ecclesiastical ignorance -- The legal and social staus of local inhabitants in the Frankish Levant -- The price of unity : ecumenical negotiations and the end of rough tolerance.…”
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Mohammad Ali Taha's "A rose to Hafeeza's eyes" and other stories by Ṭāhā, Muḥammad ʻAlī, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A rose to Hafeeza's eyes -- The boy who picked the sun -- The dinosaur -- The man who sold his mother -- One night on riga's train -- The birth -- The bird and the cage -- The wild honey -- The legislation of sheikh Mal-Allah -- The freak -- The fear -- Family honor -- Loose hair -- Motherhood -- The bird -- Separation -- Satan.…”
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Suffering childhood in early America violence, race, and the making of the child victim / by Duane, Anna Mae, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: suffering childhood in early America -- Children in the hands of Satan : captivity, witch trials, and the dangerous child -- This infant state : the child nation and infanticide in the early republic -- Pregnancy and the new birth : reproduction, performance, and infantilizing republican mothers -- The revolutionary child : slavery, affective contracts, and the future perfect -- Epilogue: the materials and metaphors of schoolwork.…”
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Red Dynamite : Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America / by Weinberg, Carl R., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: belaboring Scopes -- Lighting the Darwin fuse -- The lamb-dragon and the devil's poison -- Blood relationship, Bolshevism, and whoopie parties -- The wolf pack and the upas Tree -- Beast ancestry, dangerous triplets, and damnable heresies -- Flood, fruit, and Satan -- Trees, knees, and nurseries -- The nightcrawler, the wedge, and the bloodiest religion -- Epilogue: the baby Christian and the dark place.…”
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Legitimating new religions by Lewis, James R.

Table of Contents: “…Religious experience and the origins of religion -- Native American prophet religions -- Jesus in India and the forging of tradition -- Science, technology, and the Space Brothers -- Anton Lavey, the Satanic Bible, and the Satanist tradition -- Heaven's Gate and the legitimation of suicide -- The authority of the long ago and the far away -- Atrocity tales as a delegitimation strategy -- Religious insanity -- The cult stereotype as an ideological resource -- Scholarship and the delegitimation of religion.…”
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The horror readers' advisory the librarian's guide to vampires, killer tomatoes, and haunted houses / by Spratford, Becky Siegel

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of horror literature and film -- The readers' advisory interview : matching horror novels with readers -- The classics : time-tested tales of terror -- Ghosts and haunted houses : home, scream, home -- Mummies, zombies, and golems : the walking dead under wraps -- Vampires : Dracula will never die -- Werewolves and animals of terror : the beast walks among us -- Maniacs and other monsters : the killer lurking in the corner -- Black magic, witches, warlocks, and the occult : double, double, toil, and trouble -- Demonic possession and Satanism : the Devil inside -- Scientific and biomedical horror : the doctor will see you now -- Psychological horror : mental mayhem -- Splatterpunk or extreme horror : horror's cutting edge -- Horror resources : how to hunt for the haunted -- Collection development : cultivating the seeds of fear -- Marketing your horror collection : make them come back to your lair of horror.…”
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Our South geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / by Greeson, Jennifer Rae

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : magnet South -- Nationalization / The Plantation South -- The problem of the plantation -- Putting the colonial past in its place -- Domestic possession and the imperial impulse -- The enemy within -- Industrialization and expansion / The slave South -- Underwriting free labor and free soil -- American universal geography -- Dark satanic fields -- The masterwork of national literature -- The question of empire / The Reconstruction South -- Abandoned lands and exceptional empire -- The glory of disaster -- Internal islands and the American scene, 1898/1905.…”
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The Beecher sisters by White, Barbara Anne

Table of Contents: “…Calvinist childhoods, 1800-18370 -- Marriage and motherhood, 1837-1852 -- In the wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Water cure and Civil War, 1860-1865 -- The gilded age, 1865-1868 -- Suffrage arguments, 1868-1869 -- "Foes in your own household," 1870-1871 -- Free love and "Mrs. Satan," 1871-1872 -- The Beecher-Tilton scandal, 1872-1875 -- Spiritualism, 1875-1878 -- Losses, 1878-1887 -- The board of lady managers, 1888-1893.…”
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The Virgin of el barrio Marian apparitions, Catholic evangelizing, and Mexican American activism / by Nabhan-Warren, Kristy

Table of Contents: “…Fe (faith), familia (family), and communidad (community) : Mexican American devotion to the Virgin Mary -- Estela Ruiz and the Virgin of the Americas : an intimate relationship -- From the devil to Mary : the Ruiz family narratives -- Battling satan : the Blessed Mother's messages of healing, hope, and urgency -- "On fire for Mary and Jesus!" …”
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The Fictions of Satire by Paulson, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and representation -- Introduction ; Central symbol of violence ; Relationship : the fool and the knave ; Fiction as device : Lucian ; Satura into prose fiction ; Picaresque narrative : the servant-master relation -- From Panurge to Achitophel -- Satirist and the satirist-satirized ; Satirist as knave and as hero : Panurge and Pantagruel ; Satyr-satirist and Augustan realism ; Quixote fiction ; Turnus and Satan ; Fictions of Tory satire -- Swift : the middleman and the dean -- From rhetoric to fiction : The drapier's letters ; Swift's version of the Tory fiction ; Swiftean realism : The Bickerstaff papers ; Swiftean picaresque : Gulliver's travels ; Swiftean romanticism : the satirist as hero ; Conclusion : the fiction of Whig satire.…”
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Mongrel nation diasporic culture and the making of postcolonial Britain / by Dawson, Ashley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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Mongrel Nation : Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / by Dawson, Ashley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Colonization in reverse : an introduction -- "In the big city the sex life gone wild" : migration, gender, and identity in Sam Selvon's The lonely Londoners -- Black power in a transnational frame : radical populism and the Caribbean Artists Movement -- Behind the mask : carnival politics and British identity in Linton Kwesi Johnson's dub poetry -- Beyond imperial feminism : Buchi Emecheta's London novels and Black British women's emancipation -- Heritage politics of the soul : immigration and identity in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Genetics, biotechnology, and the future of "race" in Zadie Smith's White teeth -- Conclusion : "Step back from the blow back" : Asian hip-hop and post-9/11 Britain.…”
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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel by Cooper, Barbara MacGowan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fundamental differences -- Anatomy of a riot -- Love and violence -- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam" -- A Hausa spiritual vernacular -- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960 -- Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955 -- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph -- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995 -- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975 -- The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000 -- Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.…”
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A passage to globalism globalization, identities and South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain / by Roy, Bidhan Chandra, 1882-1962

Table of Contents: “…Naipaul's Magic seeds, Manzu Islam's Burrow and Hari Kunzru's Transmission -- The new ummah: negotiating Muslim identities in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses, Hanif Kureishi's The black album, and Monica Ali's Brick lane -- Gendering the world: globalization and gender identities in Farhana Sheikh's The red box, Meera Syal's Life isn't all ha ha hee and Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers -- Conclusion: Conflicted identities and new directions.…”
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Screen enemies of the American way political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television / by Sherman, Fraser A.

Table of Contents: “…German fifth columns: the Hun, the Third Reich and the rise of the Fourth Reich -- The yellow peril and the fear of Japan -- the red menace: Bolsheviks, commies and atheists in America -- Red scare: Fifth column anticommunist films from 1949 to 1960 -- Communist fifth columnists after 1960 -- Muslim fifth columns in America -- Invasion of the body snatchers -- Brain eaters, human duplicators and other science fictional fifth columns -- Invaders, X-files and dynamators: alien fifth columns on television -- Sexual politics and the war between men and women -- The master race -- Satanic and supernatural infiltration in film and television -- Miscellanea: corporate takeovers, secret societies and the JFK assassination -- Appendix 1: film credits -- Appendix 2: television series credits and synopses.…”
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Jonathan Edwards a life / by Marsden, George M., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…A time to be born -- The overwhelming question -- The Pilgrim's Progress -- The harmony of all knowledge -- Anxieties -- "A low, sunk estate and condition" -- On Solomon Stoddard's stage -- And on a wider stage -- The mighty works of God and of Satan -- The politics of the Kingdom -- "A city set on a hill" -- God "will revive the flame again, even in the darkest times" -- The hands of God and the hand of Christ -- "He that is not with us is against us" -- Heavenly Elysium -- Conservative revolutionary -- A house divided -- A model town no more -- Colonial wars -- Thy will be done -- I am born to be a man of strife -- The crucible -- The mission -- Frontier struggles -- Wartice -- Against an "almost inconceivably pernicious" doctrine -- Original sin "in this happy age of light and liberty" -- Challenging the presumptions of the Age -- The unfinished masterworks -- The transitory and the enduring.…”
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