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Characteristics of Roman Female Deities

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2018
Ancient Romans’ sacral community established a cohesive and complex religious system. Its reflection was a multi-figural pantheon of gods with a variety of sacral functions that were supposed to meet the most essential material and non-material needs of ...
Idaliana Kaczor
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Animating the Cosmos: The Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Dark Warrior in Han Tomb Art and Thought

open access: yesTávol-keleti Tanulmányok
This article explores the artistic development and cosmological significance of the Four Cardinal Deities—the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Dark Warrior—in Han dynasty funerary art. Drawing from a rich corpus of archaeological materials,
Marianna Lázár
doaj   +1 more source

Votive relief to Eleusian deities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Votive Relief dedicated by priest Lacrateides + family to Eleusian deities with mission of Triptolemus. Eleusis, Greece.
Ferguson, Everett
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Relational and feminist pedagogic approaches for developing engagement and inclusion of girls at risk of exclusion in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing.
Juliette Wilson‐Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stargate: SG-1: Ancient Egyptian Deities to the Modern Eye [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
v, 69 p.This paper seeks to understand the appropriation of ancient Egyptian deities into Stargate: SG-1. It seeks to understand why those particular deities were chosen, how they were manipulated and for what reasons the deities were altered as they ...
Gabriel, Angiola L.
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Educational pathways and outcomes for care‐experienced children: A 16‐year longitudinal study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children who are removed from their birth families during childhood—termed care‐experienced—can be at risk for lower educational attainment and poorer school experiences, often linked to deprivation and behavioural factors. However, research often uses aggregated measures that obscure the complexities of care (e.g.
Emily Lowthian   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

The Agency of Civilians, Women, and Britons in the Public Votive Epigraphy of Roman Britain

open access: yesInternet Archaeology
The Roman army has long been understood to have been centrally responsible for the spread of Roman religious material culture and practices in Britain, especially in public epigraphic contexts.
Charlotte A. Root   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Space, territory, and a stupa in Eastern Nepal: exploring Himalayan themes and traces of Bon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Recent research has adduced growing evidence for a distinct stratum of cultural practices that underlies various "tribal" traditions in the Himalayan region and that also seems to be characteristic of various local versions of the Bon tradition.
Bickel, Balthasar
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