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The Prometheus Challenge [PDF]
, 2017 Degas, Manet, Picasso, Dali and Lipchitz produced works of art exemplifying a seeming impossibility: Not only combining incompatible attributes but doing so consistently with aesthetic strictures Horace formulated in Ars Poetica. The article explains how
Cusmariu, Arnold
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The Miraculous Theory of Qur’an -
مجلة كلية الفقه, 2017 The first Moslems' efforts had started by the supervision of the Great Prophet to collect, arrange, and to write or record the holy Quran.For what is meant by "collect" is to learn by heart and the written scripts since the Prophet's era to Othman Ibn ...
Dr. Mashkoor Al-Awadi
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An "intermountain miracle"? [PDF]
Idaho ; Utah ; Regional economics ; Economic conditions - West (U.S.)
Carolyn Sherwood-Call, Ronald H. Schmidt
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Childbirth Miracles in Swedish Miracle Collections
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2012 The chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth was very real for medieval women, and still is in many Third World countries.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Germany's Economic Unification. An Assessment after Ten Years [PDF]
A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the w est.
Hans-Werner Sinn
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The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Wellness has grown into a multi‐trillion‐dollar industry encompassing a multitude of products and practices that affect health and well‐being. Applying a lens of commercial determinants of health to wellness is useful to examine its intersection with systems of capital production, corporate interests, and neoliberal norms of personal ...
NANCY KARREMAN +3 more
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