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The Holy Grail and the Female Uterus [Retrospectroscope] [PDF]
IEEE Pulse, 2018 A graph presents a comparison of a chalice to the female uterus. To start, observe the clear resemblance of both to an inverted pyramid shape. Let us now review the role of women in the ancient Jewish-Christian tradition. The Old Testament (OT), the first part of the Christian Bible, is based primarily on the Hebrew scriptures (or Tanakh).
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Mantichora, 2020 The “holy fools” are suffering from “cretinism”, it is not intended as a physiological disease but it is rather a state of mind that allows them to be included in a certain category of artist.
Vincenza Di Vita
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«El lenguaje del milagro en la Vida de Santa María Egipciaca»
Revista de Literatura Medieval, 2016 Resumen: En el marco de los análisis recientes acerca del tema del lenguaje redimido frente al lenguaje caído como configuradores de muchas vidas de santos medievales, el presente trabajo analiza el milagro en la Vida de Santa María Egipciaca, poema ...
Carina Zubillaga
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0225 Transvestite Women Saints: Performing Asceticism in Late Antiquity
RIHA Journal, 2019 During Late Antiquity, the secondary importance of women compared to men was manifest through attitudes to their spiritual prowess; it was assumed that a characteristic of the female was an absence of potential asceticism except in exceptional ...
Hannah Hunt
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The Spiritual Senses in Western Spirituality and the Analytic Philosophy of Religion [PDF]
, 2011 The doctrine of the spiritual senses has played a significant role in the history of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox spirituality. What has been largely unremarked is that the doctrine also played a significant role in classical Protestant thought ...
Wainwright, William J.
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Holy alliances: public subsidies, Islamic high schools, and female schooling in Bangladesh
Education Economics, 2009 This paper documents the experience of incentive‐based reforms in the secondary Islamic/madrasa education sector in Bangladesh within the context of the broader debate over modernization of religious school systems in South Asia. Key features of the reform are changes of the curriculum and policy regarding admission of female students.
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz +1 more
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SELF-TORTURE AND ASCETICISM IN THE SEMIOSIS OF THE LEGEND ABOUT ST. MARGARET [PDF]
Езиков святThis paper examines Medieval hagiography about St. Margaret from the viewpoint of self-torture depiction. Suffering, physical pain and humiliation in the form of self-mutilation belong to the basic means of her achieving holiness.
Kristína Pavlovičová
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Studia Historica Gedanensia, 2023 A Virtuous Woman in the Renaissance In this article, I analyze selected texts of epithalamia and epitaphs, on the basis of which we can conclude that it is no accident that male poets paid so much attention to women in these two genres.
Agata Chrobot, Jacek Pielas
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Den stora planen om Marias efterföljelse. Heliga Birgittas genuskorrigering
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 2022 Holy Bridgets (1303-73) Heavenly Visions, six hundred chapters divided into eight books and one appendix, "Extravagantes", published in 1492, contain remarkable sections transgressing the borders of ecdesiastic androcentrism.
Ebba Witt-Brattström
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Work Stressors among a Sample of Female Employees of the Two Holy
journal of King Abdulaziz University Arts And Humanities, 2022 this study aims to measure the level of work stressors in a sample of female employees of the Two Holy Mosques in relation to some demographic variables (e.g., educational level, age, years of experience,
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