Benjamin Goff

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The Triumph of Ch...

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The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion

by Rodney Stark

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Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

by Stanley Cavell

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I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies

by Jeanine Basinger

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