Resisting Marriage and Renouncing Womanhood: The Choice of Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns [PDF]
, 2004 The traditional Chinese perception of Buddhist monastics is that they choose to renounce the world out of desperation — after failing in the world such that their only options are suicide or the monastery.
Crane, Hillary
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The people of the Cambridge Austin friars. [PDF]
Archaeol J (Lond), 2022 Cessford C, Neil B.
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The Christian Orthodox Church Fasting Diet Is Associated with Lower Levels of Depression and Anxiety and a Better Cognitive Performance in Middle Life. [PDF]
Nutrients, 2021 Spanaki C +10 more
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The Saint as Medicator: Medicine and the Miraculous in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy. [PDF]
Soc Hist Med, 2021 Kuuliala J.
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, 2017 This is a brief narration of the creation of St. Clement\u27s Ohrid Archbishopric-Patriarchate as the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric from ancient times to recent times.
Trajanovski, Aleksandar
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Northern Russian Monastic Culture [PDF]
, 2016 The breakup of the Soviet Union awoke a renewed fascination in Russian Orthodoxy that reanimated interest in monasticism and its cultural impact on Russian history.
Spock, Jennifer B.
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Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 2014 ON NUNS’ DIET IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY-MODERN PERIOD.PROBLEMS, SOURCES AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES The article aims to highlight the types of mediaeval and early-modern sources that contain information on diet in convents, to exemplify research ...
Olga Miriam Przybyłowicz
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The Handmaid of the Lord Redux: Constructing the New Orthodox Womanhood between Cradle and Convert
, 2020 In an era when questions of sexuality and gender dominate much of the debate in theological circles, regardless of religious or confessional affiliation, the meaning of Orthodox Christian womanhood remains a simultaneously over-discussed and under ...
Kelaidis, Katherine
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Gender exclusion and local values versus universal cultural heritage significance: the Avaton debate on the monastic community of Mount Athos [PDF]
, 2016 This article explores the discrepancy between ‘universal values’ and ‘local values’ in the case of world heritage sites of sacred/religious nature. It focuses on the example of the world heritage site of Mount Athos, a self-administered peninsula in ...
Alexopoulos, G, Fouseki, K
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Classical Sociology Through the Lens of Gendered Experiences. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2020 Isaksson A.
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