A prayer for the city / by Bissinger, H. G.

Somewhat more independent : the end of slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 / by White, Shane

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Somewhat more independent : the end of slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 / by White, Shane

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The disappearing South? : studies in regional change and continuity /

Table of Contents: “…Dimensions of southern public opinion on prayer in schools /…”
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The way it was, and other writings / by Colón, Jesús, 1901-1974

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Promises kept : a memoir / by McMath, Sid

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The history of the future in Colonial Mexico / by O'Hara, Matthew D. 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Confessions -- Stars -- Money -- Prayers -- Promises -- Epilogue.…”
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Clear skies, deep water : a Chautauqua memoir / by Peyton, Beth, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Photo Gallery; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Winter; We Are Introduced to the Lake; Our Lake; Boats; Cowgirl's Prayer; In a Town This Size; Lake Time; Bodies; Spike; Summer of Changes; Barf Salad; Karaoke Night at the Casino; Falling Down; Wrens; Spring; Epilogue.…”
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Travelers to the other world : a Maya view of North America / by Torre, Domingo de la, Peres Peres, Antzelmo

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Tzotzil Maya Pronunciation; Visits to the Underworld; First Steps; Innocents Abroad and Back Home; Voyager's Prayer; Part I: Journey to the American West; Part II: Journey to the American East; Afterword; Literature Cited ; Photos Follow Page.…”
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A Yankee in Canada, with anti-slavery and reform papers. by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Table of Contents: “…--Anti-slavery and reform papers: Slavery in Massachusetts.--Prayers.--Civil disobedience.--A plea for Captain John Brown.…”

A Yankee in Canada : with anti-slavery and reform papers / by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Table of Contents: “…A Yankee in Canada -- Anti-slavery and reform papers: Slavery in Massachusetts -- Prayers -- Civil disobedience -- A plea for Captain John Brown -- Paradise (to be) regained -- Herald of freedom -- Thomas Carlyle and his works -- Life without principle -- Wendell Phillips before the Concord lyceum -- The last days of John Brown.…”
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The dialogue of earth and sky : dreams, souls, curing, and the modern Aztec underworld / by Knab, T. J.

Table of Contents: “…Earth and sky, body and soul: the dialogics of life on the earth and life in the most holy earth -- Dreams and dreaming: journeys of the soul -- "I beseech thee most holy earth": prayers for the earth -- Life in the holy earth: the Aztec underworld in the natural world of the Sierra de Puebla, a geography -- Dreams and curing: the dialogics of curing.…”
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Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes / by Corr, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…The catechist and the Quishuar tree : religious taansculturation in the Andean contact zone ; Textual strategies and ritual control in early twentieth-century Salasaca ; Prayer and placemaking in the Andes : staffholders and cultural memory ; Life lessons at a time of death -- Individual acts and personal narratives. …”
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Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / by Shaw, Jenny, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"An Heathenishe Brutish and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of People" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic -- "An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control -- "To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations -- "Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith -- "Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English Domination -- "As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation.…”
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The metamorphosis of heads : textual struggles, education, and land in the Andes / by Arnold, Denise Y., Yapita, Juan de Dios

Table of Contents: “…Andean textual polity -- Colonizing texts and the struggle over meanings -- Lands, seeds, and letters : the cycles of production and reproduction -- Cycles of metamorphosis : the children as enemies -- Warriors and weavers : the pathways of learning in the community -- The cycles of libations in school rituals -- Cycles of memory : the Inka's voice -- Cycles of sound : prayers and the "rain of letters" -- The corporeality of Kipus : toward a mathematics incarnate -- Kipu, number, and writing -- Textual logic in the Andes -- Toward an Andean textual theory.…”
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Muslim American city : gender and religion in Metro Detroit / by Perkins, Alisa

Table of Contents: “…Bangladeshi Women and Gender Boundaries -- 5. Prayer Calls and the Right to the City -- 6. LGBTQ Rights, Moral Boundaries, and Municipal Temporality Conclusion: Urban Religion and Secular Constraints -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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Yiddishlands : a memoir / by Roskies, David G., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The Rebbe Elimeylekh -- The Dybbuk -- Cafe Rudnitsky -- Bread -- Prayer for the Tsar -- Scribal errors -- Malvina's roses -- The watercarrier -- Yeast -- Beloved fatherland -- The black canopy -- May day -- The wooden box -- The last Seder night -- Lisbon -- Playing solitaire -- The soirée -- Cape Cod -- Double feature -- Male bonding -- Études -- Sutzkever's address -- Leybl's ark -- Between two mountains -- Kotsk -- The sale of Joseph -- The two Bulvanes -- Yom Kippur -- New York Jew -- Partisans' hymn -- The menorah -- Dream house.…”
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Materializing ritual practices /

Table of Contents: “…Charlotte Arnauld -- The role of altars in Maya public rituals of the Classic Period : analysis and contexts of the associated deposits / Philippe Nondédéo, Johann Begel, Julien Hiquet, Julie Patrois, Isaac Barrientos and Marisa Vazquez -- Materiality and agentivity of house building rituals : an ethno-archaeological approach / Johann Begel, Marie Chosson, and Cédric Becquey -- Heaps of prayers : the materiality of Catholic prayers, their temporal dimension and ritual effectiveness within Nahua ritual discourse / Alessandro Lupo -- Communities of engaged performance : investigating the materiality of sound in Precolumbian Greater Nicoya / Katrina Casey Kosyk -- Sensing time through materiality : two Prehispanic sound-related artifacts on exhibit at the Museo Delle Civiltà, Rome / Valeria Bellomia -- The importance of the Tunk'ul in the ritual and ceremonial song of the Carnival of Pomuch, Campeche : an interdisciplinary study / Francisca Zalaquett Rock, Olivier Le Guen, Giovani Balam Caamal, and Juan Carrillo González.…”
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Converting words : Maya in the age of the cross / by Hanks, William F.

Table of Contents: “…Converting words -- From field to genre and habitus -- First words : from Spanish to Maya -- Commensuration : Maya as a matrix language -- The grammar of reducción and the art of speaking -- The canonical word -- Part III: Into the breach : the dispersion of Maya reducido -- The scripted landscape -- Petitions as prayers in the field of reducción -- Cross talk in the books of Chilam Balam -- Epilogue : full circle.…”
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Declarations of dependence : the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?…”