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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A pagan sophist and Christian bishops: correspondence between Libanius and Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium, and Optimus, Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia. Translation and Comments [PDF]
Hypothekai, 2023 This work presents a translation of two letters from Libanius addressed to his students, who later became bishops.
Nikolai WINOGRADOW
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The psychological-type profile of practising British druids compared with Anglican churchgoers [PDF]
, 2012 This study employs psychological-type theory to profile practising British Druids and to compare their profile with that of Anglican churchgoers. A sample of 75 participants at a camp organised by The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in celebration of ...
Billington, Ursula +3 more
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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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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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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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Pasts and pagan practices: moving beyond Stonehenge [PDF]
, 2014 Theorizing the past is not restricted to archaeology and interpretations of 'past' both influence and are themselves constituted within politicized understandings of self, community and in certain instances, spirituality.
Bender B +29 more
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The rites of man: The British Museum and the sexual imagination in Victorian Britain [PDF]
, 2008 In the nineteenth century, the British Museum possessed a locked store of erotic objects. However, this did not serve to sanitize the rest of the collection.
Janes, Dominic
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ReligionsThe article analyzes the mythological concept of Slavic paganism developed by Alexander Afanas’ev in his three-volume study Poetic Views of the Slavs on Nature: An Attempt at a Comparative Study of Slavic Traditions and Beliefs in Connection with the ...
A. Toporkov
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Deconstructing the symbolic city:Jerome as guide to late antique Rome [PDF]
, 2012 This article considers the writings of Saint Jerome as a source for writing a cultural history of the city of Rome in late antiquity. Jerome is of course, in many respects, an unreliable witness but his lively and often conflicted accounts of the city do
Grig, Lucy
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