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Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) -- Religious life and customs

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• Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)
• Religious life and customs

• On the Banks of the Gaṅgā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Kelly D. Alley (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment, 1800-1980 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by Sandria B. Freitag (HTML at UC Press)

• On the Banks of the Gaṅgā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Kelly D. Alley (page images at HathiTrust)

• No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Lawrence Cohen (HTML at UC Press)
• Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Nita Kumar (HTML at UC Press)

• The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2 volumes; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1953), by William Christopher Hayes
  • Part I (From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom): page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google
  • Part II (The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom, 1675-1080 B.C.): page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google

• The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Lesley Alexandra Sharp (HTML at UC Press)

• Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Robert I. Levy (HTML at UC Press)

• Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Martin W. Lewis (HTML at UC Press)

• Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Robert G. Launay (HTML at UC Press)

• A Few Pictures from Chhattisgarh and the Central Provinces of India, Illustrating the Scenery, the Social customs of the Sathāmis and the Late Famine (1899), by J. J. Lohr
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago's Working-Class Churches (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Robert Anthony Bruno (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Battle for China's Spirit: Religious Revival, Repression, and Resistance under Xi Jinping (New York: Freedom House, 2017), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF with commentary at freedomhouse.org)

• God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), by Sara Tilghman Nalle (PDF files at Libro)

• Miss Toosey's Mission (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1885), by Evelyn Whitaker (page images at Google; US access only)

• Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Keith P. Luria (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Oberammergau, Its Passion Play and Players: A 20th Century Pilgrimage to a Modern Jerusalem and a New Gethsemane (Munich: Piloty and Loehle, 1910), by Louise Parks-Richards (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)

• A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus (London: Printed by T. Spilsbury, 1786), by Richard Payne Knight (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its Connection With the Mystic Theology of the Ancients, by Richard Payne Knight, Esq. (A New Edition); To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe (reprinted with a new preface, 1894), by Richard Payne Knight and Thomas Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • with some front matter missing (or a reprint of the 1894 limited edition): page images at HathiTrust

• Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981), by William A. Christian (PDF files at Libro)

• God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), by Sara Tilghman Nalle (PDF files at Libro)

• City Steeple, City Streets: Saints' Tales From Granada and a Changing Spain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Candace Slater (HTML at UC Press)

• City Steeple, City Streets: Saints' Tales From Granada and a Changing Spain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Candace Slater (HTML at UC Press)

• On the Banks of the Gaṅgā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Kelly D. Alley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Article Geneve de l'Encyclopédie; Profession de Foi des Ministres Genevois, Avec des Notes d'un Théologien, et Réponse a la Lettre de M. Rousseau, Citoyen de Geneve (in French; Amsterdam: Z. Chatelain, 1759), by Jean Le Rond d' Alembert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• J.J. Rousseau, Citoyen de Genève, a Mr. d'Alembert, sur son Article Genèe dans le VIIme Volume de l'Encyclopédie, et Particulierement sur le Projet d'Établir un Théatre de Comédie en Cette Ville (in French; Amsterdam: M. Rey, 1758), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Religion and Rajput Women: The Ethic of Protection in Contemporary Narratives (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Lindsey Harlan (HTML at UC Press)

• Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life (Tokyo: Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, c1988), trans. by Norman Havens (HTML in Japan)
• Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn
  • first series: Gutenberg text
  • second series: Gutenberg text

• Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Edward LiPuma (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ka: A Handbook of Mythology, Sacred Practices, Electrical Phenomena, and Their Linguistic Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean World, by Hugh Crosthwaite, contrib. by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601 (c2002), by Jacqueline Zuzann Holler (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), by Miguel A. De La Torre (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Sabbath in Puritan New England (seventh edition), by Alice Morse Earle (Gutenberg text)

• Le Culte de Cybèle, Mère des Dieux, à Rome et dans l'Empire Romain (dissertation in French; Paris: Fontemoing et cie, 1912), by Henri Graillot
  • page images at Illinois
  • reprint: multiple formats at archive.org

• Russia (1905 edition), by Donald Mackenzie Wallace (Gutenberg text)

• The Old South: A Monograph, by H. M. Hamill (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of My Life, by G. C. Rankin (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Wise Blood (author died in 1964; c1952), by Flannery O'Connor (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Recollections of a Southern Matron (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1838), by Caroline Howard Gilman (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Ioláni: or, Tahiti As It Was, by Wilkie Collins, ed. by Ira Bruce Nadel (HTML in the UK)

• The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and Other Narrative Songs of the Trobriand Islanders and Their Spirits of the Dead (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)