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Islam & Europe crises are challenges /

Table of Contents: “…The Islamic challenge : Islam and the secular state.…”
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The philosophy, politics and religion of British democracy Maurice Cowling and conservatism /

Table of Contents: “…Religion in the age of secularization.…”
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An epistemology of religion and gender biopolitics, performativity and agency / by Auga, Ulrike

Table of Contents: “…4 The political-performative power of language, appropriation, cultures of translation and travelling theory: the discourse of the "Bible in just language" against gender and social exclusions and anti-Judaism -- PART II Religion, secularity and gender after the post-secular turn -- 5 Fundamentalisms and secularisms: sovereign power, biopolitical citizenship and the possibilities of subaltern agency -- 6 The new role of religion in the public sphere: redefining secularity and secularisms in Europe and beyond -- PART III Religion, gender, neo-nationalisms and biopolitics…”
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American religious liberalism

Table of Contents: “…The piety and politics of liberal ecumenism -- pt. 3. Prgamatism, secularism, and internationalism.…”
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James Ussher and John Bramhall the theology and politics of two Irish ecclesiastics of the seventeenth century / by Cunningham, Jack, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…James Ussher -- John Bramhall -- Dogmatic theologies -- Sacramental theologies -- Ecclesiastical histories -- Secular politics -- Ecclesiastical politics -- Practical policy.…”
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Fictions of justice the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa / by Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing fictions : moral economies in the tribunalization of violence -- Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice -- Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality -- "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs -- "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self -- Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic translation of vernacular imaginaries.…”
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The role of data at the semantics-pragmatics interface

Table of Contents: “…Issue of referentiality -- pt. 2. Secular implicatures and beyond -- pt. 3. Pragmatic ways from words to constructions and utterances.…”
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After God by Taylor, Mark C., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Theorizing religion -- The Protestant revolution -- Subjectivity and modernity -- Religious secularity -- Eclipse of the real -- Recovering the real -- Religion without God -- Ethics without absolutes.…”
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Evangelical disenchantment nine portraits of faith and doubt / by Hempton, David

Table of Contents: “…Evangelicalism and disenchantment -- Evangelicalism and morality -- Evangelicalism and mission -- Evangelicalism and reform -- Evangelicalism and feminism -- Evangelicalism and secularization -- Evangelicalism and childhood -- Evangelicalism and race -- Enchantment and disenchantment.…”
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Islamic jurisprudence in the classical era by Calder, Norman

Table of Contents: “…The Ḥanafi law on fornication -- Nawawi ānd the typologies of fiqh writing -- Scholars, muftis, judges, and secular power : the need for distinctions -- The social function of fatwas.…”
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Jewish roots, Canadian soil Yiddish culture in Montreal, 1905-1945 / by Margolis, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Montreal Yiddish Press -- Yiddish literary activity in Montreal -- Montreal's secular Jewish schools -- The Montreal Yiddish Theatre -- Transition : 1945 and beyond.…”
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Recovering Hispanic religious thought and practice of the United States

Table of Contents: “…Backgrounds for Hispanic religious and secular thought -- pt. II. Recovering literary and folkloric texts -- pt. …”
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Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes : Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination / by Estes, Heide (Heide Ruth)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Imagining the sea in secular and religious poetry -- Ruined landscapes -- Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness -- Animal natures -- Objects and hyperobjects -- Conclusion: ecologies of the past and the future.…”
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Plympton Priory a house of Augustinian Canons in south-western England in the late Middle Ages / by Fizzard, Allison D.

Table of Contents: “…The founding of Plympton Priory : background and context -- Episcopal support for the new foundation : donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and their circle -- Building the endowment : lay benefactors, their motives, and their gifts -- Managing the inheritance : gains, losses, and challenges in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries -- Maximizing the inheritance : Plympton Priory and its churches and chapels -- Plympton Priory and the laity : challenges to the authority of the priory -- The regular and the secular : Plympton Priory and its connections to the secular clergy -- The canons of Plympton Priory -- The patronage case : the crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory -- Dissolution.…”
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Atheist delusions the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies / by Hart, David Bentley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith, reason, and freedom : a view from the present -- The gospel of unbelief -- The age of freedom -- The mythology of the secular age : modernity's rewriting of the Christian past -- Faith and reason -- The night of reason -- The destruction of the past -- The death and rebirth of science -- Intolerance and persecution -- Intolerance and war -- An age of darkness -- Revolution : the Christian invention of the human -- The great rebellion -- A glorious sadness -- A liberating message -- The face of the faceless -- The death and birth of worlds -- Divine humanity -- Reaction and retreat : modernity and the eclipse of the human -- Secularism and its victims -- Sorcerers and saints.…”
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The burden of democracy the claims of cultures, public culture, and democratic memory / by Souillac, Geneviève, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The burden of difference: pluralist justice and the public sphere -- Moral conversations and democratic hermeneutics -- Particularism versus universalism: a false debate? -- Secularism, culture, and critique -- Laïcité and the memory of public culture -- The ties that bind: public culture and the debt to the past -- Normative solidarity and public hermeneutics -- From intersubjectivity to encounter -- Exit of religion, debt of meaning.…”
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Nineteenth-century religion and literature an introduction / by Knight, Mark, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Dissent: Wesley to Blake -- Unitarianism: Priestley to Gaskell -- The Oxford movement: Wordsworth to Hopkins -- Evangelicalism: Brontë to Eliot -- Secularization: Dickens to Hardy -- Catholicism and mysticism: Huysmans to Chesterton.…”
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Jews in New Mexico since World War II by Tobias, Henry Jack

Table of Contents: “…Historical background -- Population growth, 1940-2000 -- Social and economic change -- The growth of secular organizations -- Congregational growth and religious change -- Interfaith activity -- Issues -- The Jewish presence.…”
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A History of Icelandic Literature / by Stefán Einarsson, 1897-1972

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Eddic Poetry -- Skaldic Poetry -- Sacred Poetry -- Secular Poetry of the Later Middle Ages -- Literature of the Clergy -- The Earliest Historiographers -- The Kings' Sagas -- The Sagas -- The Family Sagas -- Sturlunga Saga -- Fornalder Sogur -- Romances of Chivalry and Lygi Sogur -- The Reformation -- The Icelandic Renaissance -- Secular Poetry, 1550-1750 -- Enlightenment (Neo-Classicism), 1750-1830 -- National Romanticism, 1830-1874 -- Realism to Neo-Romanticism, 1874-1918 -- Tradition and Revolt Between the World Wars, 1918-1940 -- After World War II, 1940-1956 -- American-Icelandic Writers.…”
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Bugs and the Victorians by Clark, J. F. M. (John F. M.), 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The politics of insects -- Struggle for the minds of insects -- Bees and ants -- Social insects and secular science -- Darwin and the entomologists -- The Colorado beetle -- A female entomologist -- Insects and empire -- House flies -- Conclusion.…”
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