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, 2021 This Special Issue engages with questions of theory and methods in the comparative, cross-cultural study of hagiographical sources. As such, it offers, first and foremost, the venue for conducting a scientific discussion on a (re)definition of ...
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Hailing and Hallowing: Persian Hagiographies, Interpellation, and Learning How to Read
Religions, 2023 This essay discusses the pedagogical value of hagiology by examining how medieval Persian hagiographies can be used to explore the concept of “interpellation”: the process by which individuals are constituted as subjects in particular ideological systems.
William E. B. Sherman
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ASCETICISM AS A PRACTICAL EXPRESSION OF TRADITIONAL VALUES IN RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CULTURE
Russian Studies in Culture and Society, 2023 This article analyzes the experience of Orthodox asceticism and its practical expression as the realization of the meaning of human existence. In Russia, the ascetics of faith and spirit have always received special attention from society, they were ...
Ivan V. Makarov, Vladislav V. Pasechnik
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Comparison as a Provisional Activity
Religions, 2020 The careers of many scholars in various disciplines have been focused on the study of hagiography, including that of the author. Yet, as those scholars have uncovered new knowledge and employed new interpretations of the materials at hand, the very ...
Nikolas O. Hoel
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The survival of witchcraft prosecutions and witch belief in South West Scotland [PDF]
, 2006 During the era of the Scottish witch-hunts, Dumfries and Galloway was one of the last regions to initiate witch prosecutions, but it was also one of the most reluctant to completely surrender all belief in witches until a comparatively late date.
Andrew Agnew A +4 more
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Is Comparison Based on Translatable Formal Concepts?
Religions, 2020 Fully realized ethical and metaphysical concepts have intension and extension only within an historically situated epistemic tradition. Only people who live the epistemic tradition fully understand the concept and can accurately identify items that ...
Kevin Guilfoy
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Populism:a deflationary view [PDF]
, 2017 This paper takes a critical, synoptic view of the current upsurge of populism. Populism, it is argued, has long been a feature of liberal democracies in so far as claims are made for democracy to be as directly expressive as possible of the will of its ...
Molyneaux, Maxine, Osborne, Thomas
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Wall paintings in churches with a limited Christological cycle [PDF]
Zograf, 2004 This paper deals with twelve small Cretan and Peloponnesian churches, painted in the 13tn, 14tn and 15th centuries. The iconographical program in these churches includes very limited Christological cycles.
Koukiaris Silas, Archimandrite
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GREAT MUSICAL FORMS DEDICATED TO SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS
Forum Teologiczne, 2023 This article takes a closer look at the great musical forms dedicated to Saints Cyril and Methodius. These are mainly liturgical compositions related to the worship of the two saints. This group includes a medieval Mass propria (e.g. Parchment Missal no.
Piotr Towarek
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Collision, Collusion and Coincidence: Pop Art’s Fairground Parallel [PDF]
, 2016 This article looks at parallel methods, motivations and modes of consumption between formative British pop art and British fairground art. I focus on two strands, the emergent critical work of the Independent Group and the school of artists based at the ...
Alloway Lawrence +48 more
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