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The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early-Victorian satires on religion [PDF]
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
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
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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
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Hint Kökenli Dinlerde Manastır Yaşamı ve Tekke Hayatı Üzerine Bir İnceleme
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
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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
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
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
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The legacy of monastic hospitality : 1 the rule of Benedict and rise of western monastic hospitality [PDF]
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]
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
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
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Book Review: A New Look at Aurobindo [PDF]
A review of Frank Thompson\u27s A New Look at ...
Coward, Harold
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