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Shamans, nostalgias, and the IMF South Korean popular religion in motion / by Kendall, Laurel

Table of Contents: “…Shifting intellectual terrain: superstition becomes culture and religion -- Memory horizons: kut from two ethnographic presents -- Initiating performance: Chini's story -- The ambiguities of becoming: phony shamans and what are mudang after all? …”
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Violent conflicts, fragile peace perspectives on Africa's security problems /

Table of Contents: “…Human security and superstition in African conflicts -- pt. 5. Private security and the mercenary problem in Africa -- pt. 6. …”
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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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In Africa's forest and jungle six years among the Yorubas / by Stone, R. H. (Richard Henry)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Along the coast -- Up the Ogun -- In native homes -- The story of Crowther -- In a native caravan -- An African despot -- Our first dwelling -- Some beasts and insects -- Life and language -- Superstitions -- Polygamy -- Some African maladies -- Hunting -- Mental solitude -- Waylaid and captured -- Flight from Ebaddan -- Home again -- Opening battles around Ejahyay -- Worshipping the dead prince -- Leaving the doomed city -- Partial civilization -- Love letters -- A narrow escape -- The human sacrifice -- The stolen child -- Improvements -- Cast among robbers -- The colony of Lagos.…”
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Hogarth's practical aesthetics / Ruth Mack -- Presence of mind : an ecology of perception in eighteenth-century England / Jonathan Kramnick -- Reading Locke after Shaftesbury : feeling our way towards a postsecular genealogy of religious tolerance / David Alvarez -- Rethinking superstition : Pagan ritual in Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages / Mary Helen McMurran -- Defoe on spiritual communication, action at a distance, and the mind in motion / Sara Landreth -- The persistence of Clarissa / Sarah Ellenzweig -- The early-modern embodied mind and the entomological imaginary / Kate E. …”
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Engaging the spirit world popular beliefs and practices in modern southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…: rethinking the four palaces' spirit representations in the context of social and political changes in northern Vietnam / Claire Chauvet -- Gods, gifts, markets, and superstition : spirited consumption from Korea to Vietnam / Laurel Kendall -- Contests of commemoration : virgin war martyrs, state memorials, and the invocation of the spirit world in contemporary Vietnam / Kirsten W. …”
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Saving God religion after idolatry / by Johnston, Mark, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- Supernaturalism and scientism -- Scientism and superstition -- Supernaturalism -- Legitimate naturalism -- Scientism versus science -- The argument for naturalism from true religion -- The phenomenological approach -- The method and the question -- Yahweh's use of the method -- A criterion, or an enclosed circle? …”
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Criticism of theology on Marxism and theology III / by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…1. The Superstitions of Max Horkheimer -- Religion as resistance -- Longing for the totally other -- The founder -- On freedom and the individual -- Atheism and resistance -- Honest religion -- Religion betrayed -- The state -- On the Jewish state -- Liberal theology -- Religion in the bad sense, or, the dialectic of evil -- Conclusion: Modalities of the dialectic of religion -- 2. …”
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Happy Hunting Ground /

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The blood of the serpent Mexican lives / by Stout, Robert Joe

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Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England / by Eccles, Audrey

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