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Mary Magdalene is a key figure in the history of Christianity. After Mary, the mother of Jesus, she remains the most important female saint in her guise both as primary witness to the resurrection and 'apostle of the apostles'. This volume, the first major work on the Magdalene in more than thirty years, focuses on her 'lives' as these have been ...
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Mary Magdalene is a key figure in the history of Christianity. After Mary, the mother of Jesus, she remains the most important female saint in her guise both as primary witness to the resurrection and 'apostle of the apostles'. This volume, the first major work on the Magdalene in more than thirty years, focuses on her 'lives' as these have been ...
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The Semyk Holiday in the Culture of Contemporary Mari
Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, 2012Semyk is one of the most esteemed holidays of the Mari and acts as a symbol of the start of the summer celebrations cycle. Ancestral rites are a particular feature of Semyk, held in June, seven weeks after the sorta keche day dedicated to remembrance of the deceased.
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Mary as Cultural Symbol in the Nineteenth Century
2019In the nineteenth century the Virgin Mary, traditionally the most important woman in the Roman Catholic Church, also became a dynamic negative cultural symbol for Protestants, an ambivalent figure for Anglicans, and an empowering symbol for some feminists.
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"Your Loving Sister, Mary the French Queen": The Material Culture of Mary Tudor
2023Mary Tudor (1496-1533) was at the center of two major European courts during the Renaissance as an English princess and queen of France. Mary has often been studied in relation to her brother and two husbands, which has left the abundance of material works produced in association with her understudied by art historians.
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Mary and Modern Catholic Material Culture
2019This chapter assesses the persistence of material culture in modern Marian devotion, against the backdrop of technological developments in the mass media and in conjunction with a history of modern apparitions. It argues that, despite the ‘virtualization’ of Marian phenomena, iconography, and devotional practice through media such as photography and ...
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Mary Magdalene in Popular Culture and History
2006Abstract Between Peter, Paul, and Mary, there is no question about who is the media star. Peter may be a sentimental favorite among faithful readers of the New Testament, who can identify with his rash behavior but basically good heart.
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Mining Cultures and Mary Cults: Where the Sacred and Profane Meet
Technology and Culture, 2016Our Lady of the Rockies (OLR) is a ninety-foot-tall statue of the Virgin Mary overlooking Butte, Montana, from its perch high atop the Continental Divide. In the popularized account, OLR is a uniquely local undertaking reflecting the community’s character and pride.
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Illustrating Mary Poppins: Visual Culture and the Middlebrow
2012In 1934, the English publisher Gerald Howe brought out an illustrated children’s novel by a relatively unknown Australian author, P. L. Travers, then living in London. The book, Mary Poppins, was an immediate success with readers, and not only with the children who were its ostensible market.1 A protege of AE (George Russell), Travers had always wanted
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