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Patriarch Nikon’s hierotopy. The New Jerusalem Hermitage as a seventeenth century spatial icon / Иеротопия патриарха Никона. Новоиерусалимская Пустынь как пространственная икона XVII века

Визуальная теология, 2023
In the context of hierotopy, a discipline that studies the creation of sacred spaces as a specific spiritual and artistic creative activity, two new research problems have been postulated: sacred space creators as a phenomenon, and the Holy Land re ...
Alexei Lidov / Алексей Михайлович Лидов
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An Islamic Perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring Key Challenges From the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Projects are typically viewed as mechanisms for delivering products and services; however, this study examines projects from the distinct perspective of grand challenges (GCs). The selected case is the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project in Lahore, Pakistan—a grand challenge project (GCP).
Rehab Iftikhar, Syed Nayyer Abbas Kazmi
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Образ города в мозаиках базилики Рождества Христова в Вифлееме

Искусство Евразии, 2020
Аниконическая иконография церковных соборов в виде архитектурных мотивов, которая представлена в мозаиках базилики Рождества Христова в Вифлееме 1169 г., встречается сравнительно редко.
Этингоф, Ольга Евгеньевна
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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
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An Illuminated Armenian Manuscript “Guidebook” to the Sacred Shrines in the Holy Land from the End of the Seventeenth Century

Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2017
The Nkaragrutʻiwn Tnōrinakan tełeacʻ is the name given to the collection of manuscripts containing descriptions of monuments located in Palestine, primarily those considered Christian holy places.
Mikayel Arakelyan
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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The Holy Land in the Notes of the Inhabitants of Russian Monasteries in the Second Half of the 19th–Early 20th Centuries

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований
The article examines the writings of the inhabitants of Russian monasteries (nuns and novices) that describe their pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Palestine) in the second half of the 19th–early 20th centuries.
Valery V. Tsys, Olga P. Tsys
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Hófvz Tartarar secundum quosdam: сведения о татарах в исландских анналах

Золотоордынское обозрение, 2019
: Research objective: The purpose of this study is to collect, translate and comment on the information about Tatars contained in Icelandic annals. Research materials: Icelandic annals are amply published but scarcely studied.
Jackson T.N.
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The Linguistic Creation of a City in the 16th-century Polish Accounts from Travels to the Holy Land

Studia Ceranea, 2020
The article tries to describe the linguistic creation of a city in Polish 16th-century diaries from journeys to the Holy Land. During long trips, the authors visited many exotic, for the Polish traveller, cities and towns to whom they devoted a lot of ...
Rafał Zarębski
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