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Journeys into madness mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary /

Table of Contents: “…The mad objects of fin-de-si�ecle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp -- Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller -- Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley -- Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie -- Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward -- Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber -- Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw -- Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton -- Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger -- The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn.…”
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Nemrud Da�gi : recent archaeological research and conservation activities in the tomb sanctuary on Mount Nemrud / by Brijder, H. A. G.

Table of Contents: “…A survey of the topography and history of the Kingdom of Commagene, and King Antiochus I's religious & cultural programme and divine-ruler cult -- Part II. A survey of previous explorations and archaeological activities on Nemrud Dagi and in other Commagenian sanctuaries and sites : the sites revisited and reviewed -- Part III. …”
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Women and the contested state religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…: women, spirit possession cult, and domination in Burma / Bènèdicte Brac de la Perrire.…”
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Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages : Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes / Gro Steinsland -- Origin myths and rulership : from the Viking Age ruler to the ruler of medieval historiography : continuity, transformations, and innovations / Gro Steinsland -- Kings, earls, and chieftains : rulers in Norway, Orkney, and Iceland, c. 900-1300 / Jón Viðar Sigurðsson -- Jarla sögur Orkneyja : status and power of the earls of Orkney according to their sagas / Ian Beuermann -- An arena for higher powers : cult buildings and rulers in the late Iron Age and the early medieval period in the Malar region / Olof Sundqvist -- From wine in a goblet to milk in cowdung : the transformation of early Christian kings in three post-Viking tales from Ireland / Jan Erik Rekdal -- The warrior in Old Norse religion / Jens Peter Schjodt -- Oðinn, Valhöll, and the Einherjar : eschatological myth and ideology in the late Viking period / Anders Hultgard -- Family matters? …”
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Hispania in late antiquity current perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…"Cities and government in late antique Hispania : recent advances and future research" / Michael Kulikowski -- "Genere hispanus' : Theodosius, Spain, and Nicene orthodoxy" / Neil McLynn -- "Heresy and orthodoxy in fourth-century Hispania : Arianism and Priscillianism" / Victoria Escribano -- "Angelorum participes : the cult of the saints in late antique Spain" / Pedro Castillo Maldonado -- "Un coterie espagnole pieuse : Christian archaeology and Christian communities in fourth- and fifth-century Hispania" / Kim Bowes -- "The Cantabrian Basin in the fourth and fifth centuries : from imperial province to periphery" / Pablo C. …”
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Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / by Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table of Contents: “…-- Dissociative States -- The History of Altered States in Psychoanalysis -- Altered States can Enrich our Lives -- Chapter 3: The Brain and Altered States of Consciousness -- Ecstasies of Hysteria -- Freud's Victorian Ladies Suffering from Hysteria -- Hysteria and Dissociation -- Fainting, Swooning, and Seizures -- Atiques de Nervois and Other Ecstasies -- The Remarkable, Impressionable Human Brain -- Attachment and the Brain -- The Brain's Plasticity -- Sensitization, Kindling, and Addiction -- Trauma and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Third Eye and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Brain and Ecstasy -- Out of Body Experiences -- Near-Death Experiences -- Religion, Spirituality, and Ecstasy -- Orgasm and Ecstasy -- The Brain During Ecstasy -- I Can't Get No Satisfaction -- Chapter 4: The Sixties: Something is Happening Here -- The Legacy of the Sixties -- Life Should be Ecstasy -- Generations X and Y -- The Culture of Narcissism -- Like a Motherless Child -- Neglected and Unprotected -- Group Initiation Rites and Ecstasy -- When Life Becomes Ecstasy -- Chapter 5: Marketing and Producing Ecstasy -- A Separate Reality -- Pharmaceutical Paradise -- Marketing Religious Ecstasy -- Chapter 6: Cult-Induced Ecstasy and Psychosis -- Extreme Altered States -- You Create Your Own Reality -- Est, Also Known as The Forum and Landmark Forum: It Is What It Is -- Cults, Motivational Seminars, and the Human Potential Movement -- Snapping and Ecstasy -- What Psychotherapists Treating Cult-Involved Patients Need to Know -- Cults and the Consciousness Explosion -- Ecstasies of Cosmic Consciousness -- The Transcendental Meditation Vision of Possibilities -- Soul Murder -- She Saw Me Glowing, Just Like Freedom, Her Guru --…”
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From temple to church destruction and renewal of local cultic topography in late antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…Bagnall -- Rechtgläubige-Pagane-Häretiker : Tempelzerstörungen in der Kerchengeschichtsschreibung und das bild der christlichen Kaiser / Ulrich Gotter -- From temple to cell, from gods to demons : pagan temples in the monastic topography of fourth-century Egypt / David Brakke -- The Christianization of pagan temples in the Greek hagiographical texts / Helen Saradi -- Iconoclasm and Christianization in late antique Egypt : Christian treatments of space and image / David Frankfurter -- Shenoute of Atripe and the Christian destruction of temples in Egypt : rhetoric and reality / Stephen Emmel -- Die Zerstörung der Kulte von Philae : Geschichte und Legende am ersten Nilkatarakt / Johannes Hahn -- The conversion of the temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in context / Angelos Chaniotis -- Continuity and change in the cultic topography of late antique Palestine / Doron Bar -- Modalitäten der Zerstörung und Christianisierung pharaonischer Tempelanlagen / Peter Grossmann -- The conversion of the cult statues : the destruction of the Serapeum 392 A.D. and the transformation of Alexandria into the "Christ-loving" city / Johannes Hahn.…”
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Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Rhine -- Cargo cults and the ethics of science -- Thomas MacAulay and English destiny: history as grand narrative -- Searching for essences: Freud and Wittgenstein -- Seeing into the psyche: Freud's diagrams -- Wittgenstein and sharp focusing -- Magnifying truths in philosophical investigations -- The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings -- Cultural artifacts and reductionism -- Learning about the self: new horizons -- Seeing with the brain -- Learning from the market: reason as an interpersonal process -- High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Does high art convey knowledge? …”
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English law before Magna Carta Felix Liebermann and Die gesetze der angelsachsen /

Table of Contents: “…Edward's Ghost" : the cult of St. Edward and his laws in English history / Janelle Greenberg.…”
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The Martians have landed! a history of media-driven panics and hoaxes / by Bartholomew, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…Urban legends and the media -- The curse of the crying boy / David Clarke -- Photos of the gods / David Clarke -- It came from everywhere. The satanic cult scare -- Halloween panics -- Stranger danger and the predator next door -- The school safety panic -- "Out of the water!" …”
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Re-embroidering the robe faith, myth and literary creation since 1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Mythology revisited: Introduction / Peter Merchant -- The goddess and the underworld in modernism: Marguerite Yourcenar's Feux / Evans Lansing Smith -- Making it new: changing form and function in modern myth / Bradford Haas -- "In the goddess's name": symbolist and modernist revisions of the Aphrodite myth / Nora Clark -- The cult of Dionysus in the work of W.B. Yeats / Elizabeth Muller -- "Breathed on by the rural Pan": the atmosphere of Arcadia in Giono's Regain / Peter Merchant -- God's death and subsequent resurrection from Faust to Apocalypto / Jacques Coulardeau -- Unity among the stars: faith and reason in Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos: Archives / David Waterman.…”
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Sacred founders : women, men, and gods in the discourse of imperial founding, Rome through early Byzantine / by Angelova, Diliana, 1968-

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Movers and shakers social movements in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…/ Ineke van Kessel -- 'Campus cults' in Nigeria : the development of an anti-social movement / Stephen Ellis.…”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? …”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? …”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Rose -- Sophocles and contemporary politics / Robin Osborne -- Sophocles and Athenian law / Edward Harris -- The necessity and limits of deliberation in Sophocles' Theban plays / Edith Hall -- Heroic pharmacology : Sophocles and the metaphors of Greek medical thought / Robin Mitchell-Boyask -- Sophocles and hero cult / Bruno Currie -- Cutting to the bone : recalcitrant bodies in Sophocles / Nancy Worman -- Staging mothers in Sophocles' Electra and Oedipus the King / Laura McClure -- Marriage in Sophocles : a problem for social history / Cynthia Patterson -- Masculinity and freedom in Sophocles / Bruce King -- Aristotle on Sophocles / John Kirby -- Sophocles and Homer / Seth L. …”
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Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images /

Table of Contents: “…self-presentation and identity of Egyptian priests in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCR) / Gilles Gorre -- Shifting conceptions of the divine: Sarapis as part of Ptolemaic Egypt's social imaginary / Eleni Fassa -- Modes of cultural appropriation -- Aretalogies / Andrea Jordens -- Hellenistic world(s) and the elusive concept of 'Greekness' / Eftychia Stavrianopoulou -- 'Jews as the best of all Greeks': cultural competition in the literary works of Alexandrian Judaeans of the Hellenistic period / Sylvie Honigman -- Political institutions and the Lykian and Karian language in the process of Hellenization between the Achaemenids and the early Diadochi / Christian Marek -- Interculturality in image and cult in the Hellenistic east: Tyrian Melqart revisited / Jessica L. …”
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The past in the present : the construction of Polish history / by Traba, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Poles and Germans : the empirical world -- On Germans "mine" and "not mine" : a personal case study -- In search of a "portable homeland" : Poles in multi-cultural Berlin -- Warmia/Ermland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : a sketch portrait of the village of Purda Wielka as a backdrop -- Collective memory and cultural landscape : reflections on a war cemetery restoration project in Drweck (Dröbnitz) -- "You glorify the foreign, but you do not know your own" : the magic of place and the mythologizing of landscape as factors in national education in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of East Prussia -- The "landscape after battle" : the political cult of the fallen in Poland after World War II -- "It was only a film!" …”
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Tanna Times : Islanders in the World / by Lindstrom, Lamont, 1953-

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