The Mouse and the Myth: Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland 0861969324, 9780861969326

The Sacred and the Secular University 9781400823505

American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this

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Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text 9789057005176

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The Myth of Ritual Murder 9780300161915

From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual mu

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The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity 9780674058897

Brakke writes a pioneering study of the way the demon role relates to religious thinking and to cultural anxieties. The

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Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China 9780674029408, 0674029402

Leading scholar K. C. Chang challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Th

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the art of the sacred: an introduction to the aesthetics of art and belief 9780755604388, 9781845110055

The field of ‘art and religion’ is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies. Uniquely, “The Art

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The Middle East: The politics of the sacred and secular 9781350223264, 9781842778975

Amidst recent hype about events in the Middle East, there have been few attempts to get below the surface and develop a

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Media portrayals of religion and the secular sacred : representation and change

Table of contents : 1. Media, religion and society : terrain and debates -- 2. Changing media portrayals of religion and

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The Indian Christ, the Indian king: the historical substrate of Maya myth and ritual 9780292721418, 9780292738249

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Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture 9781477310700

Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled w

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