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The subject of Holocaust fiction / by Budick, E. Miller

Table of Contents: “…Voyeurism, complicated mourning, and the fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl -- Forced confessions: subject position, framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus -- Aryeh Lev Stollman's The Far Euphrates: re-picturing the pre-memory moment -- Bruno Schulz, The Messiah, and ghost/writing the past -- A Jewish history of blocked mourning and love -- See under: mourning -- Blacks, Jews, and southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- (re)reading the Holocaust from a German point of view: Bernhard Schlink's The Reader -- Mourning and melancholia in W. …”
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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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The boundaries of monotheism interdisciplinary explorations into the foundations of western monotheism /

Table of Contents: “…: exploring the boundaries of monotheism : introduction / Anne-Marie Korte -- The boundaries of Israelite monotheism / Bob Becking -- The Divine Messiah : early Jewish monotheism and the New Testament / Patrick Chatelion Counet -- Monotheistic to a certain extent : the "good neighbours" of God in Ireland / Jacqueline Borsje -- The return of the gods : the clash between monotheism and polytheism in German romanticism / Bert Blans & Marcel Poorthuis -- The unity of God / René Munnik -- The whole of life : beyond the boundaries of monotheism? …”
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Faith-based war from 9/11 to catastrophic success in Iraq / by Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith-based war -- Catastrophic success -- American blindspot -- Religious trauma -- America the beautiful -- Defending God's chosen -- City on a hill -- Alternative cities -- Amalek -- Limitless divine sanction -- Land of promise -- Wine of astonishment -- Rival traditions -- The fire of freedom -- The shining city as God -- Christian soldiers -- The president as mystic -- Drinking the Kool Aid -- Conquest as liberation -- Saddam as Hitler -- Unreal cities -- Avenging angel -- Saint George -- Christlike sacrifice -- The wrath of the Lamb -- Six-gun saviors -- Make-believe cowboys -- Messiahs on horseback -- Six-gun saviors in the White House -- Moral clarity and moral collapse -- Shock and awe -- Moral clarity in battle -- Dead certainty -- Shaken souls -- A theology of torture -- Advertising the dark side -- A theology of torture -- UnAmerican activities -- Coda: Hooded man.…”
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Contested conversions to Islam narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire / by Krstić, Tijana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : turning "Rumi" : conversion to Islam, fashioning of the Ottoman imperial ideology, and interconfessional relations in the early modern Mediterranean context -- Muslims through narratives : textual repertoires of fifteenth-century Ottoman Islam and formation of the Ottoman interpretative communities -- Toward an Ottoman Rumi identity : the polemical arena of syncretism and the debate on the place of converts in fifteenth-century Ottoman polity -- In expectation of the Messiah : interimperial rivalry, apocalypse, and conversion in sixteenth-century Muslim polemical narratives -- Illuminated by the light of Islam and the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate : self-narratives of conversion to Islam in the age of confessionalization -- Between the turban and the papal tiara : Orthodox Christian neomartyrs and their impresarios in the age of confessionalization -- Everyday communal politics of coexistence and Orthodox Christian martyrdom : a dialogue of sources and gender regimes in the age of confessionalization -- Conclusion : conversion and confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: considerations for future research.…”
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Hazon Gabriel new readings of the Gabriel revelation /

Table of Contents: “…Rendsburg -- Response to Israel Knohl, Messiahs and resurrection in the Gabriel revelation / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Gabriel and David: some reflections on an enigmatic text / John J. …”
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Too bold for the box office the mockumentary from big screen to small /

Table of Contents: “…: Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed / Heather Merle Benbow -- The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah / Christopher Hansen -- THE WAR THAT WASN'T. …”
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Indian writers transnationalisms and diasporas /

Table of Contents: “…A story of exile and dislocation / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly and the problematization of transnational identity / Aparajita De -- Writing South Africa in diaspora : Imraan Coovadia's The wedding / Ronit Frenkel -- The Indian diaspora in Burma and the politics of globalization in Amitav Ghosh's The glass palace and Mira Kamdar's Motiba's tattoos / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Diasporas and women. …”
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Criticism of religion on Marxism and theology, II / by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- Pascal's miracle -- Kierkegaard's encounter -- Paul's fable -- Conclusion : necessary fables -- The conundrums of Giorgio Agamben -- The search for Paul -- Christology, or the problem of Jesus Messiah -- Faith, law and grace as placeholder of the void -- Pre-law, or trying to make sense of Paul -- Conclusion : relativising theology -- The self-exorcism of Georg Lukács -- A world abandoned by God -- Leap-frogging Christianity -- Autobiographical exorcism -- The Bible and the beekeeper's manual -- An apparent absence? …”
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Criticism of theology on Marxism and theology III / by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The Radical Homiletics of Antonio Negri -- Radical homiletics -- Philosophical commentary -- Kairós and ákairos -- Measure and immeasure -- The politics of cosmogony -- Negri's aporia -- Excursus on the Messiah -- Back to the whirlwind -- Conclusion.…”
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A history of East European Jews by Haumann, Heiko, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY AS A 'CULTURAL PATTERN OF LIFE' IN EASTERN EUROPE -- The Catastrophe of 1648 -- The Consequences of the Catastrophe -- The Kabbala -- The Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank -- The Popular Piety of Hasidism -- The Origins of the Ostjuden -- The 'Shtetl' -- Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews: Jewish Peddlers and -- Innkeepers -- The Symbiosis Diminishes -- Jews in the Partitions of Poland -- The Reaction of the Jews to the New Political, Intellectual, -- and Religious Conditions -- The Tsarist Empire and the Jews -- East European Jews outside Tsarist Rule -- PART III. …”
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The Routledge handbook of disability in Southern Africa /

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