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From Purāṇic to Folk: the ‘Kirātārjunīyam Ballade’ and Visuals
Eikón Imago, 2021 The present article aims to examine a folk literary motif from the ‘Kirātārjunīyam’. Kirāta (hunter-Śiva) and Arjuna once needed to clash with each other during the forest life of the Pāṇḍavas.
Raju Kalidos Kesava Rajarajan
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Verbum Vitae, 2012 The present article deals with the literary and theological analysis of Neh 9. This passage reveals striking connection between penance and prayer of post-exilic community.
Mirosław Wróbel
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Confession Using Audio Visual, Distance Technologies
ReligionsCelebrating the sacrament of penance or confession restores a state of grace in a person’s soul. This is vital for a life of faith to which all human persons are called, but only Roman Catholic believers can experience.
Carlos M. Del Rio
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Moral Content of the Right of Shelter and Impunity within Patriarchal Courts in Byzantium [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2016 The article examines the moral content of the right of shelter and impunity possessed by churches (jus asyli) within patriarchal courts in Byzantium. The author focuses on the history of this phenomenon and on the arguments on why criminal cases had to ...
Ilya Nazarov
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Sin, Penance And Confession From A Protestant Perspective
Studia Theologica Varsaviensia, 2020 Although the reality of evil and moral weakness belongs to the most common human experience, only rational analysis does not allow for the rightful understanding of these aspects of the human condition. Christianity comes to man’s aid here when it sheds
Sławomir Nowosad
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Zagadnienie nawrócenia i pokuty w dziełach Sulpicjusza Sewera
Polonia Sacra, 2013 In his writings, Sulpicius Severus (360–420) urged his readers to repentance, so they would not expose themselves to eternal damnation, and therefore not remain in a state of slavery in this life.
Józef Pochwat
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REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
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