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Witchcraft and magic in Europe.. 4, The period of the witch trials
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ISBN: 081221787X 9780812236170 9780812217872 0812236173 Year: 2002 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania press,

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Relative clauses and their translations : a comparative study based on The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and its translation by Madeleine van den Bovenkamp-Gordeau

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Dancing many drums : excavations in African American dance
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ISBN: 128276411X 9786612764110 0299173135 9780299173135 6612764112 0299173143 9780299173142 0299173100 0299173143 9781282764118 9780299173104 9780299173142 Year: 2002 Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,

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African American dance -- History., African Americans -- Social life and customs.


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How God becomes real : kindling the presence of invisible others
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ISBN: 9780691164465 0691164460 9780691211985 9780691234441 0691234442 0691211981 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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"How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people-as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn't easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort-by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others-helps to explain the enduring power of faith"--


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The forbidden body : sex, horror, and the religious imagination
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ISBN: 9781479803118 9781479803132 9781479803101 1479803103 1479803111 9781479803125 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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"Throughout history, the religious imagination has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed-or, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Religious belief and mandate affect how our bodies are used in ritual practice, as well as how we use them to identify and marginalize threatening religious Others. This book examines how horror culture treats religious bodies that have stepped (or been pushed) out of their 'proper' place. Unlike most books on religion and horror, This book explores the dark spaces where sex, sexual representation, and the sexual body come together with religious belief and scary stories. Because these intersections of sex, horror, and the religious imagination force us to question the nature of consensus reality, supernatural horror, especially as it concerns the body, often shows us the religious imagination at work in real time. It is important to note that the discussion in this book is not limited either to horror cinema or to popular fiction, but considers a wide range of material, including literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, participative culture, and aspects of real-world religious fear. It is less concerned with horror as a genre (which is mainly a function of marketing) and more with the horror mode, a way of storytelling that finds expression across a number of genres, a variety of media, and even blurs the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. This expanded focus not only deepens the pool of potential examples, but invites a much broader readership in for a swim"--

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