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, 2013 Religions and Trade carves new pathways into the world of religious dynamics. In this array of essays a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of ...
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Horizons of Shamanism: A Triangular Approach to the History and Anthropology of Ecstatic Techniques [PDF]
, 2016 "The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of “shamanism” has aroused intense popular and scholarly interest since its initial coinage by the Russian scholar V. M. Mikhailovsky in the late 19th century.
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Corrigendum: Chains of extraction: shifting bioeconomies in India and East Africa [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyJohanna Gondouin +2 more
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State Murals, Protest Murals, Conflict Murals: Evolving Politics of Public Art in Ukraine
Arts, 2023 Russian interference and invasion in Ukraine have transformed that nation’s historical practice of mural painting. A traditional art form with deep religious and political resonance in Ukraine, murals have become an instrument for patriotic mass ...
Emma Louise Leahy
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Arts, 2023 The collective ritual of building one-day votive churches (obydennye khramy) was practiced in the European north of Russia between the late 14th and 17th centuries. The product of a syncretism between Orthodox Christianity and native folklore, the ritual’
Emma Louise Leahy
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Introduction: Feminist Cultural Studies
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2013 No abstract available.
Fanny Ambjörnsson, Hillevi Ganetz
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Representation and Identity in Contemporary Women Artists’ Video
Arts, 2023 This essay is an initial study that examines selected contemporary video artworks addressing identity and representation by contemporary Italian women artists. The author shows how these women artists seek to avoid the objectification and sanitisation of
Laura Leuzzi
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Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe [PDF]
, 2011 The conference volume of the Bochumer Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” outlines the thesis that religion is not a homogeneous cultural phenomenon, but a dense network of diachronically and synchronically differing ...
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Key Concepts in the Study of Religions in Contact [PDF]
There is no religion lest there are two religions. Therefore, it is only possible to examine the history of religions by taking the crucial situations of contact into account. Contact needs concepts.
Stünkel, Knut Martin
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The Malady of UNESCO’s Archive
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014 This paper offers a critical examination of UNESCO’s cultural heritage conventions with special regard to the declared transhumanism of the organization’s first director-general, Sir Julian Huxley.
Peter Jackson
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