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Hierophany and Sport

Religions, 2023
A deeper understanding of sport cannot remain only in rational discourse that transforms reality into quantified data but must descend into philosophical areas that also accept the multiple figurativeness of symbols.
Ivo Jirásek
exaly   +5 more sources

Salvation in a Palace: Luxurious Representation of Political Spirituality in Iran

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2022
The present study tries to answer this question: Why is the mausoleum of Imam Reza (a holy saint shrine) one of the most luxurious and expensive buildings in the world?
Zahra Khoshk jan
doaj   +1 more source

Creative "lifeworld" in Geriana Kauh Village Intertwining of culture and nature during the pandemics in Bali

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2022
This research is an attempt to delve into understanding the process of creative imagination of the sacred which is revealed in the intertwining of culture and nature in Geriana Kauh, Karangasem, Bali.
LG. Saraswati Putri
doaj   +1 more source

Rainbow as a covenant in I.A. Bunin's spiritual lyrics: semiotics of the sacred. Article 1. Introduction to the problem. Sacred in the works of I.A. Bunin

Семиотические исследования, 2023
In order to solve the seemingly simple philological question “What meanings are associated with the image of the rainbow in Bunin's lyrics?” we had to solve a number of difficult tasks when it turned out that the rainbow is not exactly a natural ...
Gennady Y. Karpenko
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Religious Ethics and the Human Dignity Revolution

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 652-672, December 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Human dignity, even when analyzed through the lens of human rights, has received surprisingly little attention in the Journal of Religious Ethics, in contrast to a resurgent global interest in it. This article examines some possible reasons for this diminutive interest and makes a case for dignity's integration into the mainstream of religious
Simeon O. Ilesanmi
wiley   +1 more source

W poszukiwaniu hierofanii – o filmie Góra Sulejmana Jelizawiety Stiszowej

Images, 2021
The subject of the article is Elizaveta Stishova's film Suleiman Mountain, the action of which focuses on the Kyrgyz mountain, surrounded by religious veneration.
Justyna Czaja
doaj   +1 more source

Revealed by Water, Hidden in Water

Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal, 2020
This essay explores two basic trajectories of the hydro-epistemology of sacred things in Indic cultures: things revealed by water—the visible gifts of water—and things hidden in water with which we can communicate only indirectly, by touching the water ...
Anway Mukhopadhyay, Anuradha Choudry
doaj   +1 more source

Cult Vocabulary in Buryat Traditional Culture: Semantics, Genesis, and Aspects of Functioning

Oriental Studies, 2020
One of the most promising aspects of research into the cult tradition of the Buryats is the study of the concepts of ‘cult’ and ‘sacred’. Goals. The paper aims to analyze the issue of applying the category of ‘sacred’ developed by European religious ...
Eleonora A. Nemanova
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STRATÉGIES TRANSNATIONALES DANS L’ŒUVRE DE MIRCEA ELIADE

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2021
Transnational Strategies in Mircea Eliade’s Writings. In this article, we will consider the techniques through which an important hallmark of Romanian culture, Mircea Eliade, negotiated his transnational strategies, in a continual back-and-forth ...
Laura T. ILEA
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Awe and Artifacts: Religious and Scientific Endeavor

Religions, 2017
The article takes as its point of departure the reflections of Henry Adams and Jacques Ellul on the possible gradual replacement of objects used in religious worship with objects used in technological worship, and advances the hypothesis that such a ...
Ionut Untea
doaj   +1 more source