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The Heart's Kingdom
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The Heart's KingdomThe Heart's Kingdom

Charlotte is reluctunt to marry Nochols for his religious views. Who may influence her life values? 

 
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Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity
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Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late AntiquityWhat did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools"--the schools of grammar and rhetoric--in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and religious changes that had taken place around the
 
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Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature
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Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English LiteratureThis volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing. An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers. Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies. Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts. Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors.
 
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Excellent Daughters [Audiobook]
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Excellent Daughters [AudiobookExcellent Daughters [Audiobook

For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There were only children and married women. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals. 

 
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Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960
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Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960

How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning.
 
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Tags: religious, Postmodern, Belief, belief, literature