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The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early-Victorian satires on religion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Satires on various aspects of contemporary religion can frequently be found in the early Victorian editions of Punch. The more strident forms of Protestant evangelicalism, in the earlier 1840s, and Roman Catholic revivalism, around 1850, came in for ...
Janes, Dominic
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Gender and Segregation: An Introduction

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 795-804, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, one that fully integrates gender alongside other factors and dynamics in order to fully understand the ...
Lisa Hellman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Abandoned City and the City Rediscoved. The Fate of St. Sergius of Radonezh and Other Fathers of the Russian Church

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2018
The article is devoted to the Genesis of monasticism in Ancient Russia as the earliest form of deurbanization in Russian culture. The reasons of the rejection of mundane life, the creation of monasteries accoding to the image of the “heavenly city” and ...
Olga Viktorovna Kireeva
doaj  

Hint Kökenli Dinlerde Manastır Yaşamı ve Tekke Hayatı Üzerine Bir İnceleme

open access: yesTasavvuf İlmi ve Akademik Araştırma Dergisi, 2021
Manevi bir hedefe ulaşmak için dünyevi arzuları reddetmek anlamına gelen asketizm ya da zühd hayatı, neredeyse tüm dinlerde izleri bulunan bir yaşam şeklidir. Bu yaşam şeklinin en eski izlerine ise Hint kökenli dinlerde rastlanmaktadır.
Yasin Güzeldal
doaj  

Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 5, Page 936-961, October 2025.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
wiley   +1 more source

The legacy of monastic hospitality : 1 the rule of Benedict and rise of western monastic hospitality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In the first of two articles about the founding father of hospitality, Kevin O'Gorman looks at St Benedict's rule and its context of in the monastic orders.
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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Abhiṣiktānanda: A Reception History1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this article, I present an evaluation of the scholarly reception history of Abhiṣiktānanda. I argue for an identifiable threefold division in Abhiṣiktānanda scholarship: the earliest biographies and appraisals focused on his ‘spiritual search;’ a ...
Beltramini, Enrico
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Child Ordination in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay presents scholarship on the lifestyles of Buddhist young people who ordain before reaching the age of 18 or 20—ages that in many nations today signify adulthood. It covers questions about the forms of education provided young nuns and monks, the care and emotional support such children receive.
Liz Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review: A New Look at Aurobindo [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
A review of Frank Thompson\u27s A New Look at ...
Coward, Harold
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