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Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964 / by Treglode, Benoît de

Table of Contents: “…The Life of the Dead; Chapter 6. The Cult of the New Hero; Chapter 7. Mass Culture and the Patriotic Pantheon; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index…”
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Pythagoras and the doctrine of transmigration wandering souls / by Luchte, James

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the poetic topos of the doctrine of transmigration -- Genealogy of the doctrine of transmigration -- Beyond mysticism and science : symbolism and philosophical magic -- The emergence of mystic cults and the immortal soul -- Philolaus and the question of pythagorean harmony -- The alleged critique of Pythagoras by Parmenides -- Between the earth and the sky : on the pythagorean divine -- The pythagorean bios and the doctrine of transmigration -- The path of the event -- The path of remembrance or return -- The platonic rupture : writing and difference -- Plotinus : the ascent of the soul toward the one -- Plotinus as neoplatonic mystic : letter to Flaccus -- Epilogue : the fate of the doctrine of transmigration.…”
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Healing or stealing? medical charlatans in the New Age / by Abgrall, Jean-Marie

Table of Contents: “…Psychiatry and delusions -- 13. Medicine and cults -- 14. The foundations of patamedicine -- 15. …”
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To kill the king post-traditional governance and bureaucracy / by Farmer, David John, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…-- Self, with style -- Other and hesitation -- Tradition : golden ruling -- Other traditions : silver ruling -- Start with Michelangelo : what I, a bureaucrat, expect -- Visible hand : cult of the leader -- Invisible hand : unexamined rhetoric -- A nun and barbed wire -- Love and mere efficiency -- To kill the king, and "good and no places".…”
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Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée motivation, military culture, and masculinity in the French army, 1800-1808 / by Hughes, Michael J., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : military culture and motivation in the armies of Napoleon -- From the coasts of the ocean to the snows of Poland : the grande Armée and Napoleonic military culture -- Honneur, gloire, et patrie : honor in Napoleon's legions -- Imperial virtue : the evolution of French patriotism -- Napoleon's manhood : sex and martial masculinity in the French army -- Clothing the new emperor : creating the cult of Napoleon -- The emperor's grognards : the officer corps -- Devoted soldiers and reluctant conquerors : the rank-and-file -- Conclusion : vive l'empereur! …”
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Rituals types, efficacy and myths /

Table of Contents: “…Greenfield -- The myth of Ayahuasca / Janine Tatjana Schmid -- The cult of the horse in the Sakha religious and ritual practice of the 19th century / Svetlana Ivanovna Petrova, M.K. …”
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Literary mischief Sakaguchi Ango, culture, and the war /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the scribbler and the sage / James Dorsey -- The irrational will to reason: the praxis of Sakaguchi Ango / Karatani Kojin -- Paradox at play: Ango as Japanese humanist / Ogino Anna -- Kataru koto nashi: a brief tour of Ango's native place / Robert Steen -- Sakaguchi Ango's individual cult(ure) / Doug Slaymaker -- The art of war: Sakaguchi Ango's "Pearls" and the nature of literary resistance / James Dorsey -- Works by Sakaguchi Ango. …”
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Fallen elites the military other in post-unification Germany / by Bickford, Andrew, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states -- Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities -- Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization -- The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders -- A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification -- "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other -- As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft -- "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory -- Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering.…”
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Redescribing Paul and the Corinthians

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Rereading the Christ myth : Paul's gospel and the Christ cult question / Burton L. Mack -- Bringing Paul and the Corinthians together : a rejoinder and some proposals on redescription and theory / William E. …”
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Rhetorics and technologies new directions in writing and communication /

Table of Contents: “…Jimmie Killingsworth -- Unfitting beauties of transducing bodies / Anne Frances Wysocki -- The rhetorics of online autism advocacy: a case for rhetorical listening / Paul Heilker and Jason King -- Narrating the future: scenarios and the cult of specification / John M. Carroll -- Understanding writing and communication practices. …”
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The hero and the historians historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / by Gordon, Alan, 1968-

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Matriarchal societies studies on indigenous cultures across the globe / by Göttner-Abendroth, Heide, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…A critical history of perspectives on matriarchy -- Matriarchy in Eastern India -- Matriarchal cults in Nepal -- Ancient queens realms, and group marriage in Tibet -- Matriarchal mountain peoples of China -- Women shamans in Korea -- The islands of Japan : women's cultures of the south and north -- "Alam Minangkabau" the world of the Minangkabau in Indonesia -- Matriarchal patterns in Melanesia -- Pacific Ocean cultures -- Matriarchal cultures in South America -- The spread of matriarchy to Central America -- North America : matriarchal immigrants from the South -- North America : at the cultural crossroads of South and North -- Matriarchy in India -- Ancient matriarchy in Central Africa -- Matriarchal queen-kingship in West Africa -- Matriarchal pastoral peoples in North Africa.…”
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Approaching the apocalypse a short history of Christian millenarianism / by Court, John M.

Table of Contents: “…Jezreel : the trumpeter and his tower -- An Anglican Israel at the end of time : the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury -- 'Somewhere a place for us' : modern utopias -- Christian missions and the cargo cults -- Figures of the Messiah : David Koresh and the Waco siege -- 'Apocalypse now' : celebrating the millennium on or after 2000 CE.…”
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Starting with Heidegger by Greaves, Thomas C.

Table of Contents: “…-- The fundamental tone of attunement -- Nothing to be anxious about -- The depths of boredom and love -- Meaning and truth -- Laying out understanding -- Disclosing and enclosing an horizon -- Decisive truths -- Excavating and sheltering the truth -- Time and space -- Extending our reach and making room -- Exploding, stretching and punctuating time -- Measuring out the dimension -- Ways of life and death -- The whole of life in death -- A call to indebted freedom -- Philosophy sacralised -- Origin and originality -- Original destruction -- History repeats itself -- Beginning again with the first beginning -- Arts and science : poetry and thought -- Undermining the academic divide -- Returning the arts and sciences to themselves -- The cult(ure) of technology -- Two cultures in one.…”
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Unconventional Sisterhood : Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines / by Claussen, Heather L., 1968-

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Unconventional Sisterhood : Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines / by Claussen, Heather L., 1968-

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Celtic-Norse relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200 /

Table of Contents: “…Etchingham -- Saints' cults and Gaelic-Scandinavian influence -- Around the Cumberland coast and north of the Solway Firth / Fiona Edmonds -- The Kingdom of Man and the earldom of Orkney-some comparisons / Barbara E. …”
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Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelder -- Mediterranean Encounters: Greeks, Carians, and Egyptians in the First Millennium BC / Alexandra Villing -- "I Am Isis": The Role of Speech in the Cult of Isis / Martin Bommas -- The Creation of New "Cultural Codes": The Ptolemaic Queens and Their Syncretic Processes with Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion / Olaf E. …”
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Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelder -- Mediterranean Encounters: Greeks, Carians, and Egyptians in the First Millennium BC / Alexandra Villing -- "I Am Isis": The Role of Speech in the Cult of Isis / Martin Bommas -- The Creation of New "Cultural Codes": The Ptolemaic Queens and Their Syncretic Processes with Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion / Olaf E. …”
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Arrested development and philosophy they've made a huge mistake /

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