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Cereals in the Agrarian Rites of the Don Cossacks

open access: yesЖурнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2022
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]

open access: yesДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2019
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

open access: yesThe Heritage, 2021
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

open access: yesEskiyeni, 2021
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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Belonging through Events? Exploring the Demographic Profile, Motivations, and Experiences of Those Attending the Afternoon Carol Services on Christmas Eve at Liverpool Cathedral

open access: yesReligions, 2021
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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The Changing Face of German Christmas Markets: Historic, Mercantile, Social, and Experiential Dimensions

open access: yesThe Heritage, 2021
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ecclesial Online Identities during the Covid-19 Pandemic

open access: yesTemenos, 2023
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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Remaining useful life re-prediction methodology based on Wiener process: Subsea Christmas tree system as a case study

open access: yesComputers & industrial engineering, 2020
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”

open access: yes, 2021
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“DO YOU WANT TO BE KRAMPUS?” Santa Claus, globality and locality of Christmas tradition

open access: yesHungarian Studies Yearbook, 2020
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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