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Cereals in the Agrarian Rites of the Don Cossacks
The article is an ethnographic study of the Don region, which for a long time retained the status of a border territory. The issues of estate interaction and the formation of a hierarchy of economy types and their ritual comprehension remained relevant ...
Nina A. Vlaskina
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Dostoevsky’s Ambivalent Reception of a Lutheran Tradition: The Christmas Tree and Christmas Party as a Motif in the Writer’s Stories [PDF]
This essay is dedicated to F.M. Dostoevsky’s reception of the Lutheran “Christmas tree”, particularly in the short stories “A Christmas Tree and a Wedding” (1848) and “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree” (“The Heavenly Christmas Tree”, 1876 ...
Stephan Lipke
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Stille Nacht: COVID and the Ghost of Christmas 2020
Annually, there are between 2500 and 3000 Christmas markets in Germany. While purported to be rooted in century-old tradition, the current concept of the markets, shaped in the 1930s, gradually transformed from primarily mercantile operations to ...
Murray Parker, D. Spennemann
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Modern Dünyada Kültürel Bir İnşa Olarak Noel
Tarihin en eski çağlarında insanın kendi varlığını ve evreni anlama çabasının ürünü olarak ortaya çıkan mitler, modern dönemde arkaik bir dünyanın parçası olarak ele alınmıştır.
Hicret K. Toprak
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This study tests the strength of Bishop David Walker’s notion of belonging to God through the Anglican Church through participation in events, by exploring the demographic profile, motivations, and experiences of 1234 participants attending the two ...
L. Francis +4 more
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Annually, there are between 2500 and 3000 Christmas markets in Germany. While claiming to be rooted in century-old tradition, the current concept of the markets, shaped in the 1930s, gradually transformed from primarily mercantile operations to ...
D. Spennemann, Murray Parker
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Ecclesial Online Identities during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The majority churches in Europe are paradoxically considered to be both powerful and weak religious institutions. Their complex position in secular society makes it important for them to communicate who they are to the public.
Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen
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With the continuous improvement of the complexity and comprehensive level of the system, its reliability becomes more and more important. The remaining useful life (RUL) estimation method using the degradation model with random effect to describe the ...
Bao-ping Cai +6 more
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Decorating the “Christmas Tree”
Contemporary peacekeeping operations carry out many disparate tasks, which has triggered a debate about “Christmas Tree mandates.” Did the UN Secretariat or the UN Security Council drive this expansion?
Kseniya Oksamytna, Magnus Lundgren
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“DO YOU WANT TO BE KRAMPUS?” Santa Claus, globality and locality of Christmas tradition
In this paper the author argues that the Christmas holidays, notwithstanding their international standing as a religious and commercial season, are most productively understood as a glocal phenomena, a concept intended to link the local with the global ...
Kürti László
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