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Mechanical Miracles: Automata in Ancient Greek Religion

open access: yes, 2016
What role did technologies of automation play in the ancient Greek religious experience? In this dissertation, I investigate the use of self-animated machines, known as automata, in their religious contexts. As no thorough examination of the topic has been undertaken to date, the thesis brings together the ancient evidence for the use of large ...
openaire   +1 more source

‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

From Document to History: Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Norena, Carlos F, Papazarkadas, Nikolaos
core  

Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Drawing on Daoist philosophy, this intervention provides an alternative account of spiritual selfhood that harmonises disconnections between subjectivity and the Universe around the lived body. It invokes a cosmological selfhood through re‐spiritualising the bodily geographies of subjectivity.
Yu‐Shan Tseng
wiley   +1 more source

Kindt, Julia (ed.) (2021). Animals in Ancient Greek Religion. London & New York: Routledge

open access: yesArys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2022
Bruno D'Andrea
doaj   +1 more source

Phylogenetic analysis of the enigmatic Kalash population in Pakistan. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Shahid I   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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