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All Roads Lead to Rome?: Decadence, Paganism, Catholicism and the Later Life of Oscar Wilde
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2014 This article examines paganism, Catholicism and decadence in the life and letters of the writer and wit Oscar Wilde, focusing in particular on the period after his release from Reading Gaol.
Shushma Malik
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) embodies the myth of the Great War but after his sudden death his war poems tended to be disapproved of. His pre war Georgian lines are also dismissed on account of their effete pestoralism and alleged escapism.
Tomislav M. Pavlović
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The plurality of religious life in Ukraine
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2008 Ukraine has been a religiously pluralistic country since its appearance on the world map. Already in its first power formation, the Kyivan Rus state coexisted in believing in their gods pagans of different tribes, an attempt to unite in one pantheon ...
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
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Problems of Tolerating Interfaith Relations in Ukraine
Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2008 Ukraine has been a religiously pluralistic country since its appearance on the world map. Already in its first power formation, the Kyivan Rus state coexisted in believing in their gods pagans of different tribes, an attempt to unite in one pantheon ...
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
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Weaning Away from Idolatry: Maimonides on the Purpose of Ritual Sacrifices
Religions, 2021 This essay explores Maimonides’ explanation of the Bible’s rationale behind the ritual sacrifices, namely to help wean the Jews away from idolatrous rites.
Reuven Chaim Klein
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Between Sea and Land: Geographical and Literary Marginality in the Conversion of Medieval Frisia
Religions, 2021 Ancient and medieval Frisia was an ethno-linguistic entity far larger than the modern province of Friesland, Netherlands. Water outweighed land over its geographical extent, and its marginal political status, unconquered by the Romans and without the ...
Carole M. Cusack
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MARKING OF SACRED PLACES; pp. 129–144 [PDF]
Trames, 2020 For most religions, nature has been an important medium and, to a smaller or greater extent, all religions use nature or its sacredness as a metaphor for religion.
Mare Kõiva +4 more
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From Paganism to Christianity. General Remarks on the Religious Changes in Petra (1st–6th Cent. AD)
Studia Ceranea, 2018 The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the period of Petra’s passage from paganism to Christianity, which saw the deterioration of pagan beliefs and the struggle for survival between paganism and Christianity.
Mohammed Al-Nasarat
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, 2009 About the book: Contemporary Paganism is a movement that is still young and establishing its identity and place on the global religious landscape. The members of the movement are simultaneously growing, unifying, and maintaining its characteristic ...
Harvey, Graham
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