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ABSTRACT In icon painting, chalk whiting is key to creating a gesso ground, providing a smooth, absorbent surface for paint. Calcareous nannofossils, tiny marine skeletons found in chalk, are an ideal tool for analyzing the origin of an icon's chalk ground, often the only reliable information about where the icon came from.
Mariusz Kędzierski, Mirosław P. Kruk
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Produits monastiques, publicités et initiatives de certification en Grèce
This article analyzes the recent initiatives about the Kanon certification concerning the Orthodox world and, more precisely, Greece. It questions the role that the monastic products, but also the religious certifications (like halal, kosher and the ...
Katerina Seraïdari
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Biopolitical conservatism and “pastoral power”: a Russia – Georgia meeting point. [PDF]
The paper applies the concept of biopolitics to the analysis of Russia's relations with Georgia.
Makarychev, Andrey
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The date and context of the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious
The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian political discourse, and about the crisis of the empire in the 830s.
Simon MacLean
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The Health System and the Russian Orthodox Church: Prospects for Development [PDF]
The article examines the participation and assistance of the Orthodox Church in solving problems that allowed to give a scientific justification for the cooperation of health care and Orthodox religious institutions, to determine their role in the ...
Enter Author Name Without Selecting A. Profile: Muhina Natalia, E. +1 more
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Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family
ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
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The exploration of wild and semi‐wild edible plants (WEPs) has received global attention as valuable alternative food sources. This study explored and documented the indigenous knowledge of WEPs within the Addi Arkay District of Ethiopia. Ethnobotanical data were collected from 385 informants, including 355 general informants selected through ...
Worku Misganaw +5 more
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Article dedicated to the most important Orthodox Christian life purpose – the salvation of souls. In the article the importance in this case the priest-confessor, himself knowing the basics of Orthodox doctrine is his spiritual children to monasteries ...
priest Andrij Hromiak
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The competition for souls: Sava of Serbia and consumer choice in religion in the thirteenth century Balkans [PDF]
SUMMARY The word αίρεσις , heresy means choice and in a world where religious belief was taken for granted the history of Catharism in Europe can be explained through believers exercising many of the criteria they were later to adapt to choosing secular
Roach, A.P.
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