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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Sacred Places and Pilgrimages in Post-Socialist Bulgaria

, 2017
The transformations after 1989 mark the beginning of a new period in the development of the religious in Bulgaria. This paper focuses on the religious segment of sacred places and pilgrimage, and traces the geography of major sacred places attracting ...
Evgenia Troeva
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Dungaw: Re-imagined Religious Expression in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]

J Relig Health, 2021
A Del Castillo F, Del Castillo CD, Corpuz JC.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mary as media icon: the Madonna in twentieth-century American Catholic devotional cultures

, 2007
“Mary as Media Icon: The Madonna in Twentieth-Century American Catholic Devotional Cultures” investigates the proliferation of Marian representations within the media of two U.S.
Davis, Maryellen
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
wiley   +1 more source

The Cult of the Terebovlia Miraculous Icon of the Virgin Mary in Lviv (1673–1770s): Processes of Sacralization and Unfinished Institutionalization

Kyivan Academy
The article examines the incomplete institutionalization of the cult of the Terebovlia Icon of the Virgin Mary within the St George’s cathedral in Lviv between 1673 and the 1770s. Methodologically, the study draws on the history of piety, concepts of sacred representation, and image mobility, distinguishing strategies of institutionalization (spatial ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Chapter Die ikonographischen Kulturen in den ruthenischen Ländern des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts in Relation zur Republik der Gelehrten und Künstler

This paper examines selected icons and images from the Ruthenian (early modern Ukrainian and Belorussian) lands to explore forms of cultural and religious exchange, framed within the concepts of interconfessionality, transconfessionality, and ...
Berezhnaya, Liliya
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Salus populi: Icons and the Protection of the People

, 2020
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Pope Francis prayed before an icon of the Virgin and Child in Santa Maria Maggiore and a crucifix in San Marcello, two images associated with miraculous healing and intercessory power.
Noreen, Kirstin
core  

Word Translating Image. In search of modern-language equivalents for Syriac and Coptic terminology

, 2018
In general the iconographic details recorded in the hagiographic literature are pretty meagre. Authors focus on the miraculous properties of icons. The Coptic lives of the saints may be selected as representative for the Early Christian and Byzantine ...
Polański, Tomasz
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