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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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«Vengo puro dal puro». Iniziati e non iniziati tra culti misterici, orfismo e rituali per l’aldilà
Otium, 2017 Mystery cults and Orphism represent two important aspects of ancient Greek religion. The connection with concepts like mortality and salvation of the soul is a key point to understand some changes in ancient cults in the transition from Classic to ...
Emiliano Cruccas
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Economy as a religious problem: A political approach [PDF]
, 2017 This article tackles the problem of understanding money and economy with non-economic analytical categories. The first part is devoted to point out the differences between the exclusively economic approaches to money and the recent research, from ...
Ludueña, Fabian Javier
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Orge e orgiasmo rituale nel mondo antico. Alcune note
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2007 This paper deals with the issue of the etymology and semantic developments of the word orgia in Greek and Roman language and ritual practice, with particular reference to Dionysiac religion.
Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini
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Not Every Woman is an Island: Some Notes about Isles of Women and Colonisation in the Odyssey
Rhesis, 2019 Comparing some characteristics of Archaic Greek colonisation and modern colonialism, the paper reads the Odyssean motif of the isle of women, the woman/island pair, and the related erotic imagery as the results of an interaction between historical ...
Morena Deriu
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Infirmités et prêtrise en Méditerranée antique
Pallas, 2018 This study continues a research on the expected wholeness of the priesthood in ancient Greece, focusing on similar norms observed in the ancient Jewish religion. In both cases, physical infirmities, without being regarded as defilements, discriminate and
Jérôme Wilgaux
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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ACROSS, 2022 The globally recognized cultural importance of the Ancient Greek Olympic Games was the reason for the perpetual interest, in this respect, proved by important thinkers of world culture who were active in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries and who ...
Gheorghe BRANIȘTE, Dr
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What happened to Kemosh? [PDF]
, 2016 What happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron ...
Collin Cornell
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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
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