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The Theology of Nahmanides Systematically Presented / by Novak, David, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Human Soul -- Faith -- Tradition -- Miracles -- Natural and Supernatural -- The Land of Israel -- The Commandments -- Eschatology.…”
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The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / by Rosenberg, Randall S

Table of Contents: “…De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.…”
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The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / by Rosenberg, Randall S

Table of Contents: “…De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.…”
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Black magic religion and the African American conjuring tradition / by Chireau, Yvonne Patricia, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…"Our religion and superstition was all mixed up" : conjure, Christianity and African American supernatural traditions -- "Africa was a land a' magic power since de beginnin' a history" : old world sources of conjuring traditions -- "Folks can do yuh lots of harm" : African American supernatural harming traditions -- "Medical doctors can't do you no good" : conjure and African American traditions of healing -- "We all believed in hoodoo" : conjure and Black American cultural traditions.…”
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Black magic religion and the African American conjuring tradition / by Chireau, Yvonne Patricia, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…"Our religion and superstition was all mixed up" : conjure, Christianity and African American supernatural traditions -- "Africa was a land a' magic power since de beginnin' a history" : old world sources of conjuring traditions -- "Folks can do yuh lots of harm" : African American supernatural harming traditions -- "Medical doctors can't do you no good" : conjure and African American traditions of healing -- "We all believed in hoodoo" : conjure and Black American cultural traditions.…”
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Summoning the spirits possession and invocation in contemporary religion /

Table of Contents: “…Taking possession of the spirit : relational selves and supernatural others -- pt. 3. Possession and invocation in late-modern contexts.…”
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Summoning the spirits possession and invocation in contemporary religion /

Table of Contents: “…Taking possession of the spirit : relational selves and supernatural others -- pt. 3. Possession and invocation in late-modern contexts.…”
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Fanfiction and the Author : How FanFic Changes Popular Cultural Texts / by Fathallah, Judith

Table of Contents: “…'I'm a God': The Author and the Writing Fan in Supernatural; Introduction.…”
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Fanfiction and the Author : How FanFic Changes Popular Cultural Texts / by Fathallah, Judith

Table of Contents: “…'I'm a God': The Author and the Writing Fan in Supernatural; Introduction.…”
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The Great War in Russian memory by Petrone, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Great War in Russian memory -- Spirituality, the supernatural, and the memory of World War I -- The paradoxes of gender in Soviet war memory -- Violence, morality, and the conscience of the warrior -- World War I and the definition of Russianness -- Arrested history -- Disappearance and reappearance -- Legacies of the Great War.…”
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The Great War in Russian memory by Petrone, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Great War in Russian memory -- Spirituality, the supernatural, and the memory of World War I -- The paradoxes of gender in Soviet war memory -- Violence, morality, and the conscience of the warrior -- World War I and the definition of Russianness -- Arrested history -- Disappearance and reappearance -- Legacies of the Great War.…”
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The mark of the sacred / by Dupuy, Jean Pierre, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the form of the sacred -- Imagining the end : a personal journey -- Science : a theology in spite of itself -- Religion : natural vs. supernatural -- Rationality and ritual : the Babylon lottery -- Justice and resentment : corruption of the best -- The nuclear menace : a new sacrament for humanity -- Epilogue : variations on vertigo.…”
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The mark of the sacred / by Dupuy, Jean Pierre, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the form of the sacred -- Imagining the end : a personal journey -- Science : a theology in spite of itself -- Religion : natural vs. supernatural -- Rationality and ritual : the Babylon lottery -- Justice and resentment : corruption of the best -- The nuclear menace : a new sacrament for humanity -- Epilogue : variations on vertigo.…”
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Ritual & power in stone the performance of rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan style art / by Guernsey, Julia, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the late preclassic period -- The site of Izapa in context -- A historiography of Izapa and the Izapan style -- Part of a continuum : supernatural communication in late preclassic Izapan style art -- The performance of rulership : avian transformation in Izapan style monuments -- Monuments in context -- Beyond ritual : macaws, men, and matrices of exchange.…”
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Maurice Blondel, social Catholicism, & action française the clash over the church's role in society during the modernist era / by Bernardi, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Joseph Komonchak -- Introduction -- The semaines sociales under attack : prelude to the "testis" series -- The "testis" series -- An apology for an alliance with a "Catholic atheist" -- The poisonous fruits of monophorism -- Round two : focus on the nature-supernature relationship -- Pedro Descoqs's second and third editions -- Later echoes -- Assessing the fundamental issues.…”
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Maurice Blondel, social Catholicism, & action française the clash over the church's role in society during the modernist era / by Bernardi, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Joseph Komonchak -- Introduction -- The semaines sociales under attack : prelude to the "testis" series -- The "testis" series -- An apology for an alliance with a "Catholic atheist" -- The poisonous fruits of monophorism -- Round two : focus on the nature-supernature relationship -- Pedro Descoqs's second and third editions -- Later echoes -- Assessing the fundamental issues.…”
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Ritual & power in stone the performance of rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan style art / by Guernsey, Julia, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the late preclassic period -- The site of Izapa in context -- A historiography of Izapa and the Izapan style -- Part of a continuum : supernatural communication in late preclassic Izapan style art -- The performance of rulership : avian transformation in Izapan style monuments -- Monuments in context -- Beyond ritual : macaws, men, and matrices of exchange.…”
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Alas Poor Ghost / by Bennett, Gillian

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Alas Poor Ghost / by Bennett, Gillian

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Gothic Riffs : Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 / by Hoeveler, Diane Long

Table of Contents: “…Melodramatizing the gothic : the case of Thomas Holcroft -- The gothic ballad and blood sacrifice : from Bürger to Wordsworth -- The gothic chapbook : the class-based circulation of the unexplained supernatural.…”
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