Luke and Legacy: Bruce Lincoln and the Construction of Jesus's Prophet-like Authority in the Gospel of Luke, Kendall Joseph Mayo
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Pentecostalism: A Comparative Study of African and African American Churches in Springfield, Emmanuel Kumah
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Saga beyond the Gate: Chapter One, the Coming of the Gate Ghost, Tristan B. Miller
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Billion-Dollar Bride: Book 1—Godric's Academy for Young Ladies, Kaylin N. Stickley
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Critical Veganism: A Posthuman Understanding of ‘Becoming With’ Others, Kensey Dressler
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The Unlimited Absorbs the Limits: Analyzing the Religious and Mystical Aspects of Virginia Woolf's Work Through the Lens of William James, Zachary J. Beck
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Supernatural Pilgrims: A Journey to a New Apostolic Reformation Congregation in the Ozarks, Samuel Wayne Gingerich
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Chang (Beer): A Social Marker, Ritual Tool, and Multivalent Symbol in Tibetan Buddhism, Kayla J. Jenkins
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The Lingering Menace, Logan M. Burke
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“O Stop and Tell Me, Red Man”: Indian Removal and the Lamanite Mission of 1830-31, Kaleb C. Miner
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A Kingdom of Priests and Gods: Angelic and Participatory Deification in John's Apocalypse, David A. Armstrong
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Who Are the Apistoi? Symbolic Boundaries and Anthropological Language in 2 Cor 6:14-7:1, Nii Addo Kobina Abrahams
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The Selfish Law: A Memetic Study Of The Transition From Generational Morality To Individual Morality In Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18, And Jeremiah 31:27-30, Jonathan Michael Gracza
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The Problem Of Authority In Conservative Evangelical Christianity: A Critique Of American And South Korean Expressions, Harold Arthur Brower IV
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The Myth of a Secular Economy: Capitalism's Unarticulated Theology, Daniel F. Sebastian
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Empowerment of Pentecostalism: A Comparative Study of South Korean and Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal Churches within a Postcolonial Context, Jeyoul Choi
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Of Dogs and Disciples: Gentiles and the Discourse of Identity in the Gospel of Matthew, Angela D. Ingram
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Bodies Bending Boundaries: Religious, Spiritual, and Secular Identities of Modern Postural Yoga in the Ozarks, Kimberley J. Pingatore
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Moving Past: Making Space for Memory after the Boston Marathon Bombing, Austin Thomas Jacobs
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The Mending Wall: Social Capital and Civic Engagement in the Ozarks Homeschooling Community, Michael William Bohlen
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Religion and Anthropogenesis: Other Animal Presences in the Science-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, Harrison Hall King
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Jacobites, Hivites, Spaces, and Places: Genesis 34 in Light of Spatial, Archaeological, and Anthropological Perspectives, Brock Addison Whisler
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Losing My Religion: Spiritual but Not Religious Metaphysicals, Spiritual Pluralists, and Free-Range Christians, Steven Wayne Fouse
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Praying Through Windows and Peering Through Wood: Examining Vernacular Devotions in American Eastern Orthodoxy Through a Materialist Lens, Sarah Amy Riccardi
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The Pendulum Slowly Swings: The Unusual Journey of an Ozarks Pentecostal Congregation, Katherine Ashley Graul
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Between Others, Between Ethics: Resisting Domination Through Postcolonialism, Environmentalism and Ecocriticism, Matthew Ronald Hartman
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The Cautionary Tale of Communist China: Missionaries and the Pentecostal Shift Towards Anti-Communism from 1914 Through 1951, Jason Marc Pudlo
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“Be Not Conformed to This World": A History of Worldliness in the Assemblies of God, Micah L. Hildreth
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Public Expression of Religion in the United States: Inside the Wall of Separation Between Church and State, Canaan Aaron Vermillion
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Ecclesiology After God: Materialism and Doubt in the Emerging Church Movement, Matthew James Gallion
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A Generously Imagined World: the Reception of Tzedakah Texts in Diasporic Jewish Communities, Krista Nichole Dalton
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Tell Me The Old, Old Story: The Hymns and Testimonies of Ancient Israel and American Pentecostals, Meghan D. Musy
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The Ethics of Amos in Light of Its Ancient Near Eastern Context, Mark D. Arnold
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Sowing the Seeds of Change: An Ethnographic Study of the Religious Motivations of Producers and Consumers of Locally Produced Foods, Monica Leigh Peck Cottrell
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Mourning and Reversal/Joy in the Hebrew Bible: David's Lost Child in 2 Samuel 12:15-23, Christine Rene Tibbs
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(Re)Creating Paul: Toward a More Generous Historiography, Darryl James Schafer
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Jesus, the Slayer of Death: The Descensus Ad Inferos in the Demonstrations of Aphrahat, James Wesley Bennett
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Dine becoming Bahai: Through the Lens of Ancient Prophecies, Linda Sue Covey
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Ecstasy and the Kinesthetic Body: An Ethnographic Study of Contemporary Penecostal Worship, Travis Warren Cooper
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Karaikkal Ammaiyar: A Study of Feminine Autonomy, Power, and Prestige in the Medieval Bhakti Tradition, Meghan A. Faries
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Selling Timeshares in Heaven: A Psychological-Historical Analysis of Revival Preaching in the United States, Nena Leann Kircher
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Xxxianity: A Safe, Non-Pornographic Place to Shop for All Your Christian Sex Toy and Romance Needs, Miles Adam Park
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Call And Response: Aesthetic Reception of Lamentations 2.20-22, Jane Ellen Terry
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Theology, Music, and Emotion: The Gethsemane Section of J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Kimberly Kay Clark
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The Role of Jewish Transformational Mysticism in Paul's Thought, Tyson Lee Putthoff
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Anthropodicy: How Non-Theists Explain Evil, Katharina Sandmark Phoenix
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This-Worldly Explanations for Otherworldly Growth: Vitality in an Ozarks Megachurch, Joseph Lee Dutko
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From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Emergence of an American Pentecostal Intellectual Life, Jonathan William Olson
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Christian Science and Anxiety in the Life of Principia College Students, Heather J. Fabian
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The Influence of Some Late Medieval Devotional Literature on Margery Kempe, Carla Jeanette Jeanette McKinney Heifner
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How the Missouri Baptist Convention Shifted Their Identity to the Southern Baptist Convention's New Hegemony, David James Rice
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Ecclesiastes 3:1-15: Reconciling Abjection Within Confinium, Robert R. Schafer
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Asoka in the Postcolonial Imagination: Contemporary Ideological Readings of India's Past, Johnathon Parsons
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Can I Get a Witness?: Narratives of Disaffiliation as Narratives of Healing Written by Women Who Grew up as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mary Marguerite Langille-Hoppe
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Creating the Exotic East: Romantic Literature, Orientalist Scholarship, and the Colonial Construction of the East, Martha Smith
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Gamla: A Question of Ultimate Sacrifice, Joe K. Moore
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War Continued by Other Means: The Politics of Religion And Violence, Jean A. Stalhood
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Religion and Politics: Adding a Definition of Religion to John Rawls and Richard Rorty, Mary Brune
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Patriarch as Trickster: the Social and Literary Function of the Jacob Cycle in Genesis 25-33, Brian R. Doak
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"One Taste Worldwide": Defining Taste in Mcdonald's Court Cases, George C. Welch
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Food, Flesh, and Fervor: Perfecting the Ascetic Body in Tertullian's De Ieiunio, John R. Kennedy
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"--As in all the Churches of the Saints-- " : What to do With 1 Corinthians 14:33B?, Michael D. Fisher
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The Shaping Of The Ukrainian Catholic Church Through Myth, Ritual, And Classification, Alexandra Yaremko
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Death Cults In Ancient Israel And Modern Scholarship: Practical And Theoretical Issues In Old Testament Studies, Erin Danielle Kuhns
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Here Comes The Bride: A Discursive Analysis Of The Twelve Tribes Messianic Kingdom's Eschatological Wedding Ritual, Jacob Harris
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Family Values: Anti-Familial Rhetoric And Counterculture In The Sayings Of Jesus: A Social-Structural Study, James A. Murphy
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The Ties That Bind: Exploring The Relationship Between Denominational Affiliation And SocioEconomic Status, Deborah Thompson
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Divine Order, Divine Myth: The Necessity Of Gender Paradigms In The Study Of Protestant Fundamentalist Thought, Leslie Elizabeth Smith
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The Making of American Religious Experience: a Socio-Political Critique of 'Experience' in American Religious History, Matthew S. Waggoner
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Rituals of Power in Southern Africa: an Investigation of the Healing Dance of the !Kung in the Context of African Rituals of Power, Jeffrey Clark Ruff
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