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Zanim zabłysło światło wiary Chrystusowej. Słowianie w orbicie wiary i kultury pogańskiej / Before the light of Christ’s faith shone. The Slavs in the orbit of pagan faith and culture [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage, Culture, Politics, 2022
The article introduces the currently little popular subject of Slavic mythology, and presents the pantheon of the most important Slavic deities as well as the beliefs, cults and rituals of the Slavs living mainly in the eastern territories.
Olga Osadczy, Aleksandra Osadczy-Kępka
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The Influence of the Orthodox Mission on the Cultural and Everyday Life of the Altai Peoples [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2022
The article deals with the influence of Orthodoxy on cultural and everyday life changes of the autochthonous population of the Altai, in particular, to what extent these changes were directly affected by the Christian worldview or helped to assimilate ...
Olga Orlova
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Drink and live! Roman gold glasses and early Christian hierotopy / Пей и живи! Римские золотые донца и раннехристианская иеротопия

open access: yesВизуальная теология, 2022
Roman gold-glass roundels were excised from the bottoms of functional glass vessels and inserted in the mortar, sealing funerary niches in the catacombs. Images were executed in gold leaf laminated between two layers of glass.
Andrew Simsky / Андрей Дмитриевич Охоцимский
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The Issue of Preserving the Ethnic Diversity of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in the Works of Orthodox Missionaries Dionysius (Khitrov) and Veniamin (Blagonravov) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2021
This article analyses the ethnocultural aspects of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Eastern Siberia based on texts by the bishop Dionysius (Khitrov) and Archbishop Veniamin (Blagonravov).
Natalia Kartasheva
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“Bestial Peoples” – the Rejected or the Chosen Ones? About the Atypical “Foe” in the Old Russian Written Sources

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2023
In the ethnographic introduction of the Primary Chronicle, the Slavic tribes living around the Polans are compared to forest animals, which is often regarded by researchers as a vivid example of the construction of a “foe” image and a clear evidence of ...
D. V. Puzanov
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Frozen graves of Yakutia, a chronological sequence [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2020
Distribution, cultural and chronological attribution of frozen graves of Yakutia between the beginning of 17th and end of 19th century. The funerary rites and the artefacts allow to differentiate four chrono-cultural periods (before 1700 AD, from 1700 to
Duchesne S.   +13 more
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From Ethnocentrism to Inculturation. Culture and Civilization in the History of Catholic Mission [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2015
Three models — the ethnocentric model, the adaptation model and the inculturation model — characterize the missionary approaches of the Catholic Church during the whole of its apostolic activity. The article examines the problems of cultural reception in
A. MAKSIMOV
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Andinos y buenos cristianos. La inversión en lo sagrado en los trámites legales de dos caciques en el virreinato del Perú (siglo xvi)

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 2021
From the second half of the 16th century onwards, the argument of exemplary Christian behaviour became a common rhetorical tool in the Andean caciques’ legal procedures.
Elfie Guyau
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Christiane’s Hair [PDF]

open access: yesThe American Mathematical Monthly, 2013
We explore the geometric and measure-theoretic properties of a set built by stacking central Cantor sets with continuously varying scaling factors. By using self-similarity, we are able to describe in a fairly complete way its main features. We show that it is made of an uncountable number of analytic curves, compute the exact areas of the gaps of all ...
Lévy Véhel, Jacques   +1 more
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Böhmen und die Eigenkirchen. Zu den Eliten des frühen Mittelalters bis die Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica, 2020
The phenomena of the proprietary churches is connected with the very beginnings of the Christianity in Moravia and later in Bohemia, too. The founders of the churches of the period of the 9th and 10th century were – as attested by the sources – only the ...
Tomáš Velímský
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