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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophy and Hippocratic Ethic in Ancient Greek Society: Evolution of Hospital - Sanctuaries. [PDF]

Open Access Maced J Med Sci, 2019
Bottalico L, Charitos IA, Kolveris N, D'Agostino D, Topi S, Ballini A, Santacroce L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient Greek Divination

Aestimatio, 2015
Sarah Iles Johnston (book author), Joshua J. Reynolds (review author)   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ancient Greek text concealed on the back of unrolled papyrus revealed through shortwave-infrared hyperspectral imaging. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2019
Tournié A, Fleischer K, Bukreeva I, Palermo F, Perino M, Cedola A, Andraud C, Ranocchia G.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient Greek Cosmogony

Aestimatio, 2015
Andrew Gregory (book author), Daniel W. Graham (review author)   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic affinities between the ancient Greek colony of Amvrakia and its metropolis. [PDF]

Genome Biol
Psonis N, Tabakaki E, Vassou D, Papadantonakis S, Souleles A, Nafplioti A, Kousis Tsampazis G, Papadopoulou A, Xanthopoulos K, Panailidis P, Georgiadou A, Papakosta D, Koursioti S, Evangelinou M, Papadopoulou V, Evaggeloglou P, Korka E, Christidis I, Ioannou M, Kontogianni T, Arkoumanis A, Stamatakis A, Poulakakis N, Papageorgopoulou C, Pavlidis P.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source