Kiku's prayer : a novel / by Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996

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The revival of 1857-58 : interpreting an American religious awakening / by Long, Kathryn, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…"Prayer-meetings--in all parts of the land" : the revival takes shape as history -- "Affording public amusement--[and] gratifying the curiousity" : revivalism in the news -- The influence of family, church, and association : personal perspectives on the revival -- A "desire--that the ladies would keep away" : gender tensions and the masculinization of urban piety -- "Great revival" or "great reformation"? …”
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Lincoln's Gettysburg address : echoes of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer / by Elmore, A. E., 1938-2016

Table of Contents: “…The forgotten Bible -- Lincoln's knowledge of Bible and Prayer Book -- Birth and rebirth -- Fitting and proper -- Consecrate, dedicate, hallow -- O brave new words -- "Under God"--aforethought or afterthought? …”
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A short catechism for children. / by Bradford, Alden, 1765-1843

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the poetry of religious experience / by Dubois, Martin, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Forms of devotion. Bibles ; Prayer -- Part II. Models of faith. The soldier ; The martyr -- Part III. …”

Romanticism and transcendence : Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the religious imagination / by Barth, J. Robert

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From Anglo-First-Wave towards American Second-Wave Jewish Feminism : Negotiating with Jewish Feminist Theology and its Communities in the Writing of Amy Levy / by Devine, Luke

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The nail in the skull and other Victorian urban legends / by Young, Simon (Historian)

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Tolstoy and the religious culture of his time : a biography of a long conversion, 1845-1887 / by Medzhibovskaya, Inessa, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Challenges of modernity: the Russian vertigo in personal experience and literature to 1847 -- Portrait of the artist as a young nonbeliever -- Superfluity and the religion of writing (1851-1863) -- Belief system in War and peace (1863-1869) -- The unfinished battle: the case with the epilogues -- Tolstoy's path toward conversion: 1869-1875 -- The course of Tolstoy's conversion: from philosophy to Christ (1875-1878) -- Turning with Christ (1878-1881) -- Religious experience and forms of accounting -- Logos and its life in the world (1880-1886) -- The death of Ivan Il'ich -- On life and conclusion -- Appendix I: Tolstoy "On prayer" (1852) -- Appendix II: "Prayer for Granddaughter Sonechka" and "Prayer" (1909).…”
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The persistence of the sacred : German Catholic pilgrimage, 1832-1937 / by Doney, Skye

Table of Contents: “…What They Practiced: Prayer, Songs, and Processions -- Modern Miracles -- The Sacred Economy -- Rending Religiosity: Johannes Ronge and the 1840s Trier Controversy -- Clerical Crossroads: Medical Verifiability of the Sacred -- Historical Authenticity as Presence.…”
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Lewis Carroll : formed by faith / by Lovett, Charles C.

Table of Contents: “…This child is regenerate -- An instruction to be learned -- For the good education -- Brought up to godliness -- Come to years of discretion -- This thy table -- Diligent attendance -- Learning and godly conversation -- Fresh from God's hands -- Preach the gospel -- Diligence in prayer -- In His holy ways -- Thy will be done.…”
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In pursuit of knowledge : black women and educational activism in antebellum America / by Baumgartner, Kabria, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Prayer and protest at the Canterbury Female Seminary -- Race and reform at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary -- Women teachers in New York City -- Race, gender, and the American high school -- Black girlhood and equal school rights -- Character education and the antebellum classroom -- Conclusion. …”
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Force and freedom : black abolitionists and the politics of violence / by Jackson, Kellie Carter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the philosophy of force -- Forcing freedom : the limits of moral suasion -- Fight, flight, and fugitives : the Fugitive Slave Law and violence -- From prayers to pistols : the struggle for progress -- Black leadership : the silenced partners of Harpers Ferry -- A Carbonari wanted : violence, emigration, and the eve of the Civil War.…”

The anti-imperial choice : the making of the Ukrainian Jew / by Petrovskii-Shtern, Iokhanan

Table of Contents: “…A prayer for Ukraine: the improbable identity of Hryts'ko Kernerenko -- Between two fires: the national-Communist utopia of Ivan Kulyk -- Writing the body: the passion and freedom of Raisa Troianker -- Being for the victims: Leonid Pervomais'kyi's ethical responses to violence -- A messiah from Czernowitz: the language and faith of Moisei Fishbein.…”
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Verdi, Opera, Women. by Rutherford, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Verdi, Opera, Women; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Music examples; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Verdi and his audience; The audience sings Verdi; Spectators; 1 War; Opera and politics; Le ispiratrici; Le salvatrici; Le guerriere; 2 Prayer; Verdi and religion; I Lombardi alla prima crociata; La forza del destino; Otello; Singers and nuns; 3 Romance; 'Sogno divin!'…”
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To address you as my friend : African Americans' letters to Abraham Lincoln /

Table of Contents: “…Requests for Equal Treatment ; Prayers for Aid for Christian Ministries ; Letters Seeking Economic Rights and Opportunities ; Mementos -- Epilogue. …”
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To address you as my friend : African Americans' letters to Abraham Lincoln /

Table of Contents: “…Requests for Equal Treatment ; Prayers for Aid for Christian Ministries ; Letters Seeking Economic Rights and Opportunities ; Mementos -- Epilogue. …”
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The rhetoric of rebel women : Civil War diaries and Confederate persuasion / by Harrison, Kimberly

Table of Contents: “…: finding the time, place, and means for voicing political allegiances -- Guarded tongues/secure communities : rhetorical responsibilities and "everyday" audiences -- Public voices/divine audiences : Confederate women's prayers during the American Civil War -- Audiences victorious, defeated, and free : rhetorical purpose in the immediate postwar south -- Conclusion.…”
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Business of the heart : religion and emotion in the nineteenth century / by Corrigan, John, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Religion, emotion, and the double self -- The businessmen's revival -- The anxiety of Boston at mid-century -- Overexcitement, economic collapse, and the regulation of business -- Emotion, collective performance and value -- Emotional religion and the ministerial "balance-wheel" -- Men-women, and emotion -- Domestic contracts -- Clerks, apprentices, and boyculture -- Prayerful transactions -- Emotion, character, and ethnicity -- Epilogue: The meaning of the revival and its legacy -- Appendix 1. …”
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Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788-1828 : Jewish reformer and intellectual / by Zola, Gary Phillip

Table of Contents: “…The Final Years -- Appendix A: Isaac Harby's Academy Cashbook, 1819- 1820, A Summary -- Appendix B: Reformed Society of Israelites Members Listed in the KKBE Books of Offerings, 1811, 1813, 1814, 1819, and 1823 -- Appendix C: Reformed Society of Israelites Members Buried in the KKBE Cemetery -- Appendix D: Authorship of Various Prayers Found in the Prayerbook of the Reformed Society of Israelites.…”
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