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SOCIAL MYTHS OF MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIETY: PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS AND RESEARCH RESULTS

open access: yesВестник Донского государственного технического университета, 2018
The research results of the social mythology of the modern Russian society are generalized. The typology of social myths is resulted. Some topical functions of the modern social mythology are considered. The correlation of the modern social mythology and
Irina A. Kairova
doaj  

Beyond Mythology: A Reply to Paul Garver [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
[Excerpt] Unlike many critics of the AFL-CIO\u27s foreign policies, and especially of its International Affairs Department, Paul Garver speaks with a reasonable, almost academic voice.
Kahn, Tom
core   +1 more source

Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Hindu Mythology” is not Mythology

open access: yesNorth Texas Journal of Undergraduate Research
The limitations of the concept of "religion" are evaluated in the use of the term "Hindu mythology" to refer to the Puranas of Hinduism. A more inclusive schema of “dharma” allows for the Puranas to be understood outside of the Eurocentric categories of religion, mythology, and philosophy.
Urja Joshi, Leah Kalmanson
openaire   +1 more source

The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
core   +1 more source

A Hero's Journey to Systemic Change: Developing Expertise in Agricultural Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Experts in rural development and agrarian change wield considerable influence over programme design and delivery, directing resources and shaping trajectories towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet the pathways through which such expertise develops remain under‐examined. This study examines the journey to expertise among experts
Kirt Hainzer   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Z WIEŻY BABEL NA OLIMP O ŁACIŃSKICH WIERSZACH SCHELLINGA [PDF]

open access: yesThe Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2007
Schelling presumed that the solution of a dichotomy, philosophy versus poetry, could take place through a synthesis of the language of philosophy and the language of poetry: the reason and sensibility, refl ection and fantasy.
Wit Jaworski
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Twins in Mesoamerica as a Symbol of Contrasting Duality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In cultures across the Mesoamerican subcontinent, there are examples in the archaeological and ethnographic record of myths concerned with twins and sibling pairs (Minneci, 1999).
Rideout, Benjamin
core   +2 more sources

The Measure of All Gods: Religious Paradigms of the Antiquity as Anthropological Invariants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose of the article is the reconstruction of ancient Greek and ancient Roman models of religiosity as anthropological invariants that determine the patterns of thinking and being of subsequent eras. Theoretical basis.
Halapsis, Alex V.
core   +4 more sources

“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

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