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Child Ordination in South Asian Jainism
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.ABSTRACT The practice of initiating minors (children under the age of 18 [bāla or bāl]), was once common among Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant communities in South Asia. This article summarizes scholarship on Jain child ordination, specifically initiation (dīkṣā) into Śvetāmbara mendicant life.
Liz Wilson
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 192-209, June 2025.This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
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Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y ArqueologíaThis article explores the commemorative monumentality of the Battle of San Carlos, focusing on material evidence, documentary sources, and oral memory spanning nearly a century of monumental landscape (1935-2024) at the site of Los Cuatro Vientos ...
Carlos Landa +3 more
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Images Re-Vues, 2005 Si hier comme aujourd’hui, l’art islamique classique comme « l’art contemporain islamique » connaissent une fluctuation nominative importante, si hier comme aujourd’hui, « islamique » est employé dans le sens de “civilisation islamique” ; hier comme ...
Monia Abdallah
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The Power of Wood and Stone; The Taliban Is Not the First to Fear the Mysterious Lure of Art [PDF]
, 2001 Essay on the demolition of the two colossal Buddhas of Bamian ...
Freedberg, David A.
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Les images abîmées : entre iconoclasme, pratiques religieuses et rituels « magiques »
Images Re-Vues, 2006 The contribution focuses on the phenomenon of the manipulated, or even degraded, images in the Alpine regions. In these territories we can find at least three categories of damaged images: the first concerns images damaged and concealed for religious ...
Simona Boscani Leoni
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European questions have intruded into the French election campaign, signalling that the next European Parliamentary elections may be the first truly European ones [PDF]
, 2012 German Chancellor Angela Merkel supports Nicolas Sarkozy’s election campaign. Meanwhile Sarkozy wants to exclude Greece from the Schengen Agreement and has called for protectionist measures within the European Union.
Priestley, Julian
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Images Re-Vues, 2006 Cet article étudie quatre des quatre cent soixante chansons réunies sous le titre de Cantigas de Santa Maria par Le roi Alphonse X le sage (1221-1284).
Mateusz Wilk
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À l’origine du culte du Précieux Sang de Fécamp, le Saint Voult de Lucques
Tabularia, 2002 After the Crucifixion, Nicodemus, accompanied by Joseph of Arimathaea, receives and buries the body of Christ. Nicodemus is one of the last people to have been in physical contact with Christ’s mortal remains, which he saw and touched. Because of this he
Jean-Guy Gouttebroze
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Culture & MuséesThis article examines iconoclastic and performative interventions on Chilean public statuary during the 2019–2020 social uprising. Drawing on a visual corpus from the digital archive Inventario Iconoclasta de la Insurrección Chilena, it highlights ...
Mathieu Corp, Marisol Facuse
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