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Just as we speak of "dead" languages, we say that religions "die out." Yet sometimes, people try to ... more

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This volume is a collection of forty articles dedicated to one of the most distinguished contemporar... more

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More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visio... more

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