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Praying Before the Image of Mary: Nuns’ Prayerbooks and the Mapping of Sacred Space
ReligionsThis study examines the performative, spatial, and affective dimensions of Marian devotion in two early modern women’s prayerbooks from Vorarlberg: the Valduna Prayerbook (Freiburg i. Br., UB Hs. 1500,30) and the Thalbach Prayerbook (Bregenz, VLB Hs. 17).
Cynthia J. Cyrus
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Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023 The paper offers an analysis of Quechua words and phrases used in reference to the Virgin Mary in four doctrinal works published between 1585 and 1631. The objective of the analysis is to determine the strategies of intercultural translation employed by
Szymon Gruda
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores how history teachers in secondary education in England (a) see their role as assessors and (b) how they make decisions about assessing a difficult history: learning about the Holocaust. Assessment literacy (AL) is recognised as a potentially valuable aspect of good teaching and central to supporting students' learning ...
Mary Richardson +3 more
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Od kapliczki do mody. Obraz Maryi w kulturze współczesnej
Colloquia Theologica Ottoniana, 2018 In Catholicism, Our Lady’s role among the saints is special, as she is the mother of Jesus, Son of God. Her uniqueness is reflected also in the culture stemming from Christianity.
Andrzej Draguła
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Materializing Immaculacy in Sixteenth-Century Tyrol
Belvedere Research Journal, 2023 The Innsbruck sepulchral chapel of Habsburg prince and sovereign of Tyrol, Archduke Ferdinand II (1529–1595), accommodates a generously sized Marian altarpiece, the focus of this study.
Stella Wisgrill
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Book Review: Apologia Pro Beata Maria Virgine: John Henry Newman’s Defence of the Virgin Mary in Catholic Doctrine and Piety [PDF]
, 2019 Book Review: No abstract ...
Ogilvie, Matthew C
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Material and Theological Identities : A Historical Discourse of Constructions of the Virgin Mary [PDF]
, 2009 This article charts, through the longue durée, two contested constructions of the Virgin Mary, the one theological, the other material. Material constructions, founded on such concrete material as relics, images, pilgrimage shrines and sacralized ...
Bugslag, James
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Religions, 2021 This article presents the Hungarian manifestations of a written devotional practice that emerged in the second half of the 20th century worldwide: the rite of writing prayers in guestbooks or visitors’ books and spontaneously leaving prayer slips in ...
Krisztina Frauhammer
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Agricultural innovations underpin most investments that aim to increase agricultural productivity globally. Improved crop varieties have historically constituted the bulwark of agricultural innovation outputs and are credited with the success of large‐scale interventions such as the Green Revolution. Much research has shown, however, that gender shapes
Jing Yi +3 more
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