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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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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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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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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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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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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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Weaving and binding immigrant gods and female immortals in ancient Japan / by Como, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Immigrant gods on the road to Jindo -- Karakami and animal sacrifice -- Female rulers and female immortals -- The queen mother of the west and the ghosts of the Buddhist tradition -- Shamanesses, lavatories, and the magic of silk -- Silkworms and consorts -- Silkworm cults in the heavenly grotto : Amaterasu and the children of Ama No -- Hoakari.…”
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Weaving and binding immigrant gods and female immortals in ancient Japan / by Como, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Immigrant gods on the road to Jindo -- Karakami and animal sacrifice -- Female rulers and female immortals -- The queen mother of the west and the ghosts of the Buddhist tradition -- Shamanesses, lavatories, and the magic of silk -- Silkworms and consorts -- Silkworm cults in the heavenly grotto : Amaterasu and the children of Ama No -- Hoakari.…”
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The Saint of Kathmandu and other tales of the sacred in distant lands / by LeVine, Sarah, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Bori : spirit possession in a Muslim town -- Las tres Marías : the cult of the Virgin in Mexico -- Oborogi : witchcraft in a Kenyan village -- The Saint of Kathmandu : treading where the Buddha trod -- El shaddai : charismatic Christianity in Hong Kong -- Just sitting : Zen in America.…”
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The Saint of Kathmandu and other tales of the sacred in distant lands / by LeVine, Sarah, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Bori : spirit possession in a Muslim town -- Las tres Marías : the cult of the Virgin in Mexico -- Oborogi : witchcraft in a Kenyan village -- The Saint of Kathmandu : treading where the Buddha trod -- El shaddai : charismatic Christianity in Hong Kong -- Just sitting : Zen in America.…”
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Mao's new world political culture in the early People's Republic / by Hung, Chang-tai, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Tiananmen Square : space and politics -- Ten monumental buildings : architecture of power -- Yangge : the dance of revolution -- Parades -- The red line : the Museum of the Chinese Revolution -- Oil paintings and history -- Devils in the drawings -- New year prints and peasant resistance -- The cult of the red martyr -- The Monument to the People's Heroes.…”
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Mao's new world political culture in the early People's Republic / by Hung, Chang-tai, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Tiananmen Square : space and politics -- Ten monumental buildings : architecture of power -- Yangge : the dance of revolution -- Parades -- The red line : the Museum of the Chinese Revolution -- Oil paintings and history -- Devils in the drawings -- New year prints and peasant resistance -- The cult of the red martyr -- The Monument to the People's Heroes.…”
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Subliminal persuasion influence & marketing secrets they don't want you to know / by Lakhani, Dave, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Creating message contagion -- Leverage applied propaganda -- Position and package your legend -- Control the emotion and the content -- Get a real endorsement -- Understand beliefs and true believers -- Harness the power of the people's media -- Deliver the experience -- The subliminal power of words -- Creating a cult following -- Seduction.…”
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Subliminal persuasion influence & marketing secrets they don't want you to know / by Lakhani, Dave, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Creating message contagion -- Leverage applied propaganda -- Position and package your legend -- Control the emotion and the content -- Get a real endorsement -- Understand beliefs and true believers -- Harness the power of the people's media -- Deliver the experience -- The subliminal power of words -- Creating a cult following -- Seduction.…”
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Dark shadows by Benshoff, Harry M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a cult television show -- Production history -- A necessarily brief synopsis -- Macronarrative: adapting the gothic novel and the horror film -- Micronarrative: television melodrama and episodic structure -- Actor, character, narrative -- Cultural context: camp, reception, and secondary texts -- Legacy -- Fans and fandoms -- Epilogue: Dark shadows 2008.…”
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Dark shadows by Benshoff, Harry M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a cult television show -- Production history -- A necessarily brief synopsis -- Macronarrative: adapting the gothic novel and the horror film -- Micronarrative: television melodrama and episodic structure -- Actor, character, narrative -- Cultural context: camp, reception, and secondary texts -- Legacy -- Fans and fandoms -- Epilogue: Dark shadows 2008.…”
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Plots of epiphany : prison-escape in Acts of the Apostles / by Weaver, John B.

Table of Contents: “…Prison-escape and myth-criticism -- Epiphanic rescue from prison in ancient myth and history -- "Beginning from Jerusalem" : prison-escape and the mythopoesis of Christian origins in Acts 1-7 -- Rescue and regicide : the poetics and politics of group validation in Acts 12 -- "A door of faith opened to the Gentiles" : prison epiphany and cult foundation in Acts 16.…”
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The white devil : the werewolf in European culture / by Beresford, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Of man and beast : the prehistoric cults of Europe -- The wolves of Rome : classic accounts of the werewolf myth -- Fists of fury : the wolves of Germania -- The medieval werewolf -- A cruel and savage beast : the werewolf in folklore -- Of wolf and man : werewolf cases from Europe -- Methods to the madness : medical explanations of the werewolf myth -- Evolution creates dissolution : the end of the myth?…”
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