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Social Perception of Infertility and Its Treatment in Late Medieval Italy: Margherita Datini, an Italian Merchant’s Wife [PDF]
Uisahak, 2016 Because the perception of infertility in medieval Europe ranged from the extremely religious view of it as a malediction of God or the devil’s work, to the reasonable medical conception of it as a sort of disease to treat, it is very difficult to ...
Jong Kuk NAM
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Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2023 Last Days in the Desert (Rodrigo García, US 2015) portrays the devil as Jesus’s doppelganger,demonstrating the rivalry between good and evil as the two compete over theefficacy of Jesus’s faith.
Yergensen, Brent
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Rethinking sin and evil through the life of a child sex slave
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 This article rethinks (original) sin and evil through the life of a child called Engela who has been ‘sold’ into sex slavery. Focus is placed on the high value with which children should be regarded, especially children who have been sold as sex slaves ...
Chris Jones
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DIAVOLUL ȘI ÎNGERII ÎN ROMANELE LUI ANDREI CODRESCU / THE DEVIL AND THE ANGELS IN ANDREI CODRESCU’S NOVELS [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2022 The paper discusses how Andrei Codrescu creates images of the Devil and angels in his novels. Partially, he explains in his essays the inspiration for building the postmodern representation in his novel. Inspired by reality, Codrescu disguises characters
Cristina Matilda Vănoagă
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Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2012 The study handles the Anne Elisabeth Lohmann scandal and the last disputes about the existence of the devil in Germany (1759 -1776). The representants of Lutheran orthoxy incriminate Lohmann to be possessed by the devil, whereas theologians like Teller ...
Wolfgang Fink
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Existential dimension of fear in Anton Chekhov’s short story “Fear” [PDF]
Слово.ру: балтийский акцентThe article examines the antinomic nature of the existence of fear in Anton Chekhov’s works, with particular attention to the short story “Fear”. The methodological framework combines the principles of New Criticism — treating the literary text as a self-
Gilmanov V.Kh., Kosinskaya A.S.
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The devil molested me: A case series of incubus syndrome from North India
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2022 Incubus syndrome is a disorder typically seen in females where she reports that a male demon lies upon her and engages in sexual activity with her. While the concept of incubus is typically based on Western folklore a limited number of case reports are ...
Robin Victor +3 more
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Fééries, 2020 Marked by religiosity, the immense corpus collected by the Brothers Grimm includes a not inconsiderable number of Christianised tales in which a “fusion between the marvellous pagan and the Christian supernatural” takes place which remains perceptible ...
Christiane Connan-Pintado
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The Force of Jewish Law in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Fiction [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2020 This study evaluates a collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short stories that portray the lives of the Jews living in small towns in Poland before World War II; how Jewish law enforcement shaped the community as a whole and every individual Jew abiding
Saeid Ganjkhanloo
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Kuradite vägitegudest Äänisjärve idarannikul [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2007 The article discusses the link between rock-carvings of Lake Onega in one of their locations, Cape Besov Nos, and five legends about devils. These are mostly new interpretations of etiological legends.
Enn Ernits
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