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A modern introduction to theology new questions for old beliefs / by Kennedy, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Theology ancient and modern -- Christianity's current predicament -- The rise of modernity -- The Enlightenment -- Secularity and suspicion -- Can the Bible be trusted? …”
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To touch the face of God the sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 / by Oliver, Kendrick, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "The blasphemy of going up" -- "A power greater than any of us" : religion and secularity in the formation of the American space program -- "Signals of transcendence" : the rise and fall of space-age theology -- "Into the other world" : anticipations of spaceflight as religious experience -- "Perhaps a meaning to us" : the Apollo missions as religious experience -- "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" : religious Americans and NASA in the autumn of the space age -- Epilogue.…”
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Technicians of Human Dignity : Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth / by Bennett, Gaymon, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Human Dignity and the Vatican -- The Church, the Secular, and Pastoral Power -- The Ontology of Vocation: Gaudium et spes -- Human Dignity and the United Nations -- Incapacity by Design: Politics, Sovereignty, and Human Rights -- Dignity and Governance: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Diagnostic Excursus: Economies of Life and Power -- Human Dignity and the President's Council on Bioethics -- Bioethics and the Reconfiguration of Biopolitics -- The Biopolitical Pastoral: Beyond Therapy -- Methodological Epilogue: Toward an Anthropology of Figuration.…”
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Faith in schools? autonomy, citizenship, and religious education in the liberal state / by MacMullen, Ian, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Civic education and religious schools: The civic case against religious schools -- Civic education and the autonomy problem in political liberalism -- Autonomy as a public value: Autonomy, identity and choice -- The value of autonomy in a pluralist world -- Autonomy as a goal of education policy: objections and responses -- Religious schools and education for autonomy: Secular public schools: critiques and responses -- Religious secondary schools as threat to autonomy? …”
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Shaking the world for Jesus media and conservative evangelical culture / by Hendershot, Heather

Table of Contents: “…: Christian music and the secular marketplace -- Virgins for Jesus : the gender politics of therapeutic Christian media -- Holiness codes and holy homosexuals : interpreting gay and lesbian Christian subculture -- Putting God under the microscope : the Moody Institute of Science's cinema of devotion -- Praying for the end of the world : the past, present, and future of Christian apocalyptic media.…”
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How women saved the city by Spain, Daphne

Table of Contents: “…Voluntary vernacular -- Why cities needed saving -- Sacred and secular organizational ideologies -- Voluntary associations with an urban presence -- New york City headquarters, smaller city branches -- Boston, the cradle of redemptive places -- Men build Chicago's skyline, women redeem the city -- How women saved the city -- Appendix A : literature review -- Appendix B : organizational charters -- Appendix C : addresses of redemptive places for Bboston, Chicago, and New York City.…”
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Contemporary Dickens /

Table of Contents: “…Dickens, secularism, and agency / George Levine -- Dickens and the goods / Robert Newsom -- The poverty of charity : Dickensian sympathy / Nancy Yousef -- Uncanny gifts, strange contagion : allegory in The haunted man / John Bowen -- Storied realities : language, narrative, and historical understanding / Richard H. …”
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The mythic forest, the green man and the spirit of nature the re-emergence of the spirit of nature from ancient times into modern society / by Varner, Gary R.

Table of Contents: “…-- The green man in myth -- A discussion of the validity of the green man myth -- The green man and the church -- The secular image of the green man -- What's in a name? …”
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A companion to Marsilius of Padua

Table of Contents: “…Courtenay -- Medicine and the body politic in Marsilius of Padua's Defensor pacis -- Marsilius of Padua's principles of secular politics -- Marsilius of Padua on church and state / Bettina Koch -- The spirituality of the church: scripture, salvation, and sacraments / Michael J. …”
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Shifting ground knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness / by Scheman, Naomi

Table of Contents: “…Non-negotiable demands : metaphysics, politics, and the discourse of needs -- Feminist epistemology -- On waking up one morning and discovering that we are them -- Terminal moraine -- Against physicalism -- Feeling our way toward moral objectivity -- Queering the center by centering the queer : reflections on transsexuals and secular Jews -- Forms of life : mapping the rough ground -- The trustworthiness of research : the paradigm of community-based research (co-authored with Catherine Jordan and Susan Gust) -- Narrative, complexity, and context : autonomy as an epistemic value -- Epistemology resuscitated : objectivity as trustworthiness.…”
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Person and society in American thought a study in Christian humanism / by Murphy, Cornelius F.

Table of Contents: “…Freedom, grace, and nature -- Renaissance and reformation -- A New England revival -- The lingering sense of sin -- Self and society -- Individualism and fellowship -- Personal integrity and general chaos -- The religion of social solidarity -- Pragmatism and idealism -- The affirmation of practical life -- The search for a higher power -- Multiplicity and unity -- From beloved community to mass society -- The transformation of sin and redemption -- The primacy of social experience -- The equalization of life -- Toward a new Christian humanism -- Religion and democracy -- Rethinking human nature -- Societies secular and sacred.…”
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The Art of Distances : Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature / by Stan, Corina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Adorno and Barthes on the question of the right (di)stance -- The pathos of distances in "a world of banished people" -- George Orwell's critique of sincerity and the obligation of tactlessness -- The inferno of saviors: notes in the margin of Elias Canetti's lifework -- A socialism of distances, or on the difficulties of wise love: Iris Murdoch's secular community -- "The world in me": the distantiality of everyday life -- In search of a whole self: Benjamin's childhood fragments -- Annie Ernaux's diaries of the outside -- Gunter Grass's century -- Damon Galgut on emptying oneself for sleep -- Conclusion.…”
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America / by Darsey, James Francis

Table of Contents: “…Debs -- The word in darkness -- A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic -- Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch -- Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights -- The seraph and the snake.…”
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Cambodge the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 / by Edwards, Penny, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : originations -- The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906 -- Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor -- Les fidèles cambodgiens and Les khmèrophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935 -- Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922 -- Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916 -- Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity -- Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935 -- Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles -- Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945 -- Past colonial?…”
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How happy to call oneself a Turk provincial newspapers and the negotiation of a Muslim national identity / by Brockett, Gavin D.

Table of Contents: “…Imagining the secular nation : Mustafa Kemal and the creation of modern Turkey -- Narrating the nation : print culture and the nationalist historical narrative -- Provincial newspapers and the emergence of a national print culture -- Religious print media and the national print culture -- Muslim Turks against Russian communists : the Turkish nation in the emerging Cold War world -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Mehmed the Conqueror : negotiating a national historical narrative -- Religious reactionaries or Muslim Turks? …”
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Islam and the making of the nation : Kartosuwiryo and political Islam in twentieth-century Indonesia / by Formichi, Chiara, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : new perspectives on political Islam in twentieth-century Indonesia -- Planting the seeds : Java, the nationalist movement and Kartosuwiryo in the 1920s -- Political Islam in changing times : Sarekat Islam and Masyumi under the Dutch and Japanese occupations (1930-1945) -- Religious resistance and secular politics : laying the foundations of the Indonesian state (1945-1947) -- Building the Islamic state : from ideal to reality (1947-1949) -- The 'War of the Roses' : the Islamic state and the Pancasila Republic (1949-1962) -- From rebellion to martyrdom? …”
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Regional variations in matrimonial law and custom in Europe, 1150-1600

Table of Contents: “…Reynolds -- Separation and marital property in late medieval England and the Franco-Belgian region / Monique Vleeschouwers-Van Melkebeek -- Widows, property, and law in Lithuania and some other countries / Jurgita Kunsmanaite -- Images of marriage : a comparison of law, custom and practice in medieval Europe / Anthony Musson -- A regional cluster : Italian secular laws on abduction, forced and clandestine marriage (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) / Trevor Dean -- Forfeiting the marriage portion : punishing female adultery in the secular courts of England and Italy / Caroline Dunn -- Marriage disputes in the consistorial court of freising in the -- Late Middle Ages / Kirsi Salonen -- Marriage causes in late medieval Sweden : the evidence of Bishop Hans Brask's register (1522-27) / Mia Korpiola -- The marriage process in the light of family correspondence : a comparative perspective on the Swedish evidence / Anu Lahtinen -- Rituals before tribunals in renaissance Italy : continuity and change, 1400-1600 / Cecilia Cristellon and Silvana Seidel Menchi -- Conclusion : comparative approaches to marriage in the later Middle Ages / Charles Donahue, Jr.…”
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Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas /

Table of Contents: “…. -- The quest for spiritual purpose in a secular dance community : Bele's rebirth in contemporary Martinique / Camee Maddox-Wingfield -- Embodying Black religion : the ethics and aesthetics of Afro-diasporic Muslim hip-hop in Britain / Jeanette S. …”
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Le Corbusier homme de lettres / by Boyer, M. Christine

Table of Contents: “…Le Corbusier : the writings of an architect -- Searching for a method (1907/1912) -- An encounter on the Acropolis (1910/1914, 1965) -- The many paths to Paris (1910/17) -- Forging a synthesis of art and industry : letters to William Ritter (1917/25) -- A method for the arts of today : Purism, après le Cubisme, and l'esprit nouveau -- The language of architecture -- Controversy and poetry, 1929 and beyond -- Travels to the Americas -- The Janus-faced thirties -- Algiers and the Mediterranean atlas -- Elements of a secular faith : daydreams, authority, and the view from above -- Epilogue: A book--a box of miracles.…”
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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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