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

open access: yesOriental 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

open access: yesStudia 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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Akhet Khufu: archaeo-astronomical hints at a common project of the two main pyramids of Giza, Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
. The architectural complexes composed by the two main pyramids of Giza together with their temples are investigated from an interdisciplinary point of view, taking into account their astronomical alignments as well as their relationships with the ...
MAGLI, GIULIO
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Archaeoastronomy in the Khmer heartland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The heartland of the Khmer empire is literally crowded by magnificent monuments built in the course of many centuries. These monuments include the world-famous state-temples, such as Angkor Wat, but also many other temples and huge water reservoirs ...
Magli, Giulio
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Ethnotexture et scénographie rituelle à travers Le Cri des oiseaux fous de Dany Laferrière et La Belle Créole de Maryse Condé [PDF]

open access: yesRevue Roumaine d’Etudes Francophones, 2020
In order to emphasize the idea of uniformity and uniformization of cultures, some francophone authors make use of concepts such as "world literature", "everyone", or "universalism".
ADAKOUI Baba Amine
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Awe and Artifacts: Religious and Scientific Endeavor

open access: yesReligions, 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
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The Forty Rules of Love: a Mystical Eliadean Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات بین‌رشته‌ای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی
This interdisciplinary study is a mystical reconsideration of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love (2011), FRL hereafter, based on the theologian Mircea Eliade’s perspective on the notion of sacred life as hierophany.
Elham Mohammadi Achachelooei
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« A single gray flake, like the last host of christendom » : The Road ou l’apocalypse selon St McCarthy

open access: yesTransatlantica, 2017
This article focuses on Cormac McCarthy’s religious viewpoint in The Road (2006) and highlights the biblical metaphors and images that bring about a new vision of the apocalypse.
Yves Davo
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Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a relationship between a father and a son,
Arel, Stephanie
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