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Tracing Sacred Intercession in Childbirth Across Byzantine Tradition and Its Western Reception, from the Virgin’s Girdle to Saints Julitta and Kerykos

Religions
This article explores devotional responses to childbirth in Byzantine and medieval Western Christianity, focusing on the interplay between maternal experience, sacred objects, and saintly intercession.
Şükran Ünser
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Book Review: IV. Practical and Devotional: Practical Ideals in Evangelism [PDF]

Review & Expositor, 1907
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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
wiley   +1 more source

Devotional Cross-Roads [PDF]

, 2019
The collection of essays presented in “Devotional Cross-Roads: Practicing Love of God in Medieval Gaul, Jerusalem, and Saxony” investigates test case witnesses of Christian devotion and patronage from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, set in and ...

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Bonavetura da Bagnoregio – una teologia affettiva o sapienziale?

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2019
The author in this study responds to the ambiguity about the concept of the theology of Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, specifically the expression that refers to “affective theology”.
Ctirad V. Pospíšil
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Semantics of “Beneficence’’ in Quran [PDF]

پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2015
Semanticsdeals withthestudy ofmeaning.“Meaning’’ is awarenessofcultural context and the relationship between a word with other words in a text.
Alireza Dehghanpour, Zhila Bakhshi   +1 more
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Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics

Ethos, EarlyView.
Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Total Devotion: Dismantling Religious Practices and Training Devotion in 2 Kings 22-23

Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2020
Abstract The demise and disappearance of religions are processes rarely analysed or theorised in depth in the study of religions. This article engages the discussion of how religious traditions disappear by focusing on religious demise as an active process and suggests that ...
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Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: A Cross‐National Study on Employer Support Throughout the Transition

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on Gendered Opportunity Structures Theory (Ely and Meyerson), this cross‐national qualitative study examines how formal policies, informal practices, and symbolic cultural narratives jointly configure employer support across three phases of the maternity transition—before leave, during leave, and after leave—in Brazil and the United ...
Letícia Maria Barbano, Claudia Maria Simões Martinez   +1 more
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Practice of Piety Translated:The Dynamics of the International Circulation of a Devotional Book

, 2023
This article attempts to develop a more systematic theoretical framework for investigating the international dissemination of devotional books in early modern times.
van de Kamp, Jan; id_orcid
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