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The power of sacrifice Roman and Christian discourses in conflict / by Heyman, George, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Roman religion and sacrificial practice -- The Roman imperial cult -- The New Testament and the discourse of sacrifice -- The sacrifice of the martyr -- Conclusions.…”
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Culture counts faith and feeling in a world besieged / by Scruton, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- What is culture? -- Leisure, cult, and culture -- Knowledge and feeling -- The uses of criticism -- Teaching culture -- Culture wars -- Rays of hope.…”
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Panthée : religious transformations in the Graeco-Roman Empire /

Table of Contents: “…From local to global -- part 2. Emotions, mystery cults, and soteriology -- part 3. New identities, and integration processes.…”
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The saints' impresarios dreamers, healers, and holy men in Israel's urban periphery / by Bilu, Yoram

Table of Contents: “…The folk-veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel -- Dream portal -- Roots in the west : the cult of saints in Morocco -- From west to east : Moroccan jewry in Israel -- Native saints and immigrant saints : the sacred geography of Moroccan Jews in Israel -- Avraham Ben-Ayyim and Rabbi David u-Moshe -- A dream journey to the saint -- A saint in the next room : Rabbi David u-Moshe and the Ben-Ayyim family -- The abode of Rabbi David u-Moshe at the dawn of the 21st century -- Ya'ish O'ana, Elijah the prophet and the gate of paradise -- The road to paradise -- Dreamers in paradise -- Paradise lost -- Alu Ezra and Rabbi Avraham Aouriwar -- Early and late revelations -- Life-story as folktale the cinderella of Beit Shean -- Years later -- The folk veneration of saints in Morocco and Israel -- Esther Suissa and Rabbi Shimon bar-Yorai -- From patient to healer -- Written in the egg yolk : the healing art of female -- Saints' impresarios -- Esther and Rabbi Shimon : a return visit -- The cult of saints from a comparative perspective : symbol, narrative, gender, and identity -- Crosscutting stories : the saints' impresarios from a comparative perspective -- Personal symbols and mythic narratives -- Gender and sanctity : the female way to the Tsaddiq -- Migrating traditions : the historic timing and the "shelf life" of the new shrines -- The cult of saints as an Israeli and local phenomenon.…”
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The troubles of templeless Judah by Middlemas, Jill Anne, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The Social and Historical Situation in Templeless Judah -- Conceptions of Judah, I : Idolatrous Cults -- Conceptions of Judah, II : Yahwistic Worship -- The Voice of the Land Lamentations.…”
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Court culture and the origins of a royalist tradition in early Stuart England by Smuts, R. Malcolm (Robert Malcolm)

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The cults of monarchy and the wars of religion -- pt. 2. …”
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Papers from the first and second postgraduate forums in Byzantine studies sailing to Byzantium /

Table of Contents: “…V. History of art and cult.…”
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When Broadway was the runway theater, fashion, and American culture / by Schweitzer, Marlis

Table of Contents: “…The octopus and the matinee girl -- The "department store theater" and the gendering of consumption -- "The cult of clothes" and the performance of class -- Fashioning the modern woman -- The theatrical fashion show on Broadway and Sixth Avenue.…”
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The death and afterlife of Achilles / by Burgess, Jonathan S., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The early life of Achilles -- The death of Achilles -- The destiny of Achilles in the Iliad -- Intertextuality and oral epic -- The death of Achilles in the Iliad -- Motif sequences in the Iliad -- Burial and afterlife of Achilles -- Tomb and cult of Achilles.…”
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Gods and goddesses in ancient Italy /

Table of Contents: “…; 2 In the name of Diana Feronia and other Italic goddesses in their sacred landscape; 3 Getting to know Diana; 4 Beyond Rome: the cult of Vesta in Latium; 5 The God Castor at Rome: form, function, and cult; 6 Loufir/Liber at the crossroads of religious cultures in Pompeii (third-second centuries BC); 7 Śuri et al.: a 'chthonic' Etruscan face of Apollon?…”
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The variety of local religious life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods

Table of Contents: “…Haider -- Aspects of Hatrene religion : a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra / Lucinda Dirven -- Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult / Jürgen Tubach.…”
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Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts / by Andrews, David, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? -- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?…”
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Homeless dogs & melancholy apes humans and other animals in the modern literary imagination / by Brown, Laura, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Speculative space : the rise of the animal in the modern imagination -- Mirror scene : the orangutan, the ancients, and the cult of sensibility -- Immoderate love : the lady and the lapdog -- Violent intimacy : the monkey and the marriage plot -- Dog narrative : itinerancy, diversity, and the Elysium for dogs.…”
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American idyll academic antielitism as cultural critique / by Liu, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: populist idylls, cultural politics -- The problem with the meritocracy -- Ordinary Americans, average students -- The curious cult of religious practicality -- Against all experts: no experience necessary -- The new age of cultural studies: crisis in the PMC -- Conclusion.…”
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Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts / by Andrews, David, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? -- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?…”
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The sinister way the divine and the demonic in Chinese religious culture / by Von Glahn, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Ancestors, ghosts, and Gods in ancient China -- The Han cult of the dead and salvific religion -- Shanxiao: mountain goblins -- Plague demons and epidemic Gods -- The song transformation of Chinese religious culture -- Wutong: from demon to deity -- The enchantment of wealth.…”
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Rhetorical Code Studies : Discovering Arguments in and around Code by Kevin Brock

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Rhetorical Code Studies : Discovering Arguments in and around Code by Kevin Brock

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Society, medicine and religion in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides by Israelowich, Ido, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Aelius Aristides and the sacred tales -- Introduction -- The composition of the sacred tales -- Date of composition -- Method of composition -- Motives for composition -- The sacred tales as an autobiography -- The ancient readers of the sacred tales -- A narrative of redemption -- Society, disease and medicine in the sacred tales of Aristides -- Introduction -- The Graeco-Roman health-care system -- Towards a definition of a medical discourse -- Medicine in the Graeco-Roman world -- Roman medicine and its Greek influences -- Dreams -- The sick, medicine and physicians in the world of the sacred tales -- The place of the sick in society -- Medical discourse in the sacred tales -- The physicians in the sacred tales -- Towards a medical history of Aelius Aristides -- Falling ill -- Aristides and Asclepius -- Wider contexts -- Reconsidering private religions; religion and religious experience in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides -- Introduction -- Theology -- The myth of Asclepius -- Divination, oracles and dreams -- Dreams -- Oracles -- Visual culture and social forms of cult-organisation -- Cult, festivals and games -- The power of images.…”
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Relics of the Christ by Nickell, Joe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the life of Jesus -- The cult of relics -- Christian relics -- The Holy Grail -- Self-portraits of Jesus -- The true Cross -- Other crucifixion relics -- Holy shrouds -- The Shroud of Turin -- 'Photograph' of Christ -- The Sudarium of Oviedo -- Blood of Jesus -- The James ossuary.…”
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