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Rosaries and Statues: Mediating Divine Intervention in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Religions, 2021 In the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB) in Papua New Guinea, the changes of Vatican II led to significant Church reform, creating “Liklik Kristen Komuniti” (small Christian communities) that gave more responsibility to the laity.
Anna-Karina Hermkens
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Vroulike mistiek, praktiese devosie en die Kaapse piëtisme, 1700–1860
In die Skriflig, 2023 Feminine mysticism, practical devotion, and Cape Pietism, 1700–1860. In the last phase of the Middle Ages, medieval piety and mysticism converged in the movement called Devotio Moderna (Modern Devotion). In the last decades of the fourteenth century, the
Andries W.G. Raath
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Religions, 2022 This paper is about Catholicism in the Philippines, highlighting the events and objects of the popular devotion to the Black Christ Nazarene of Manila, popularly known as Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno of Quiapo or NPJN.
Mark Inigo Macam Tallara
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Popular Piety and Devotion to Parish Patrons in Poland and Spain, 1948–98
Religions, 2020 This paper will show the dynamics of change in the celebration of the parish patron’s day at the turn of several decades (before and after the Second Vatican Council) at a Marian shrine in Poland and the cult of Cross from Monjardin in Spain.
Piotr Roszak, Sławomir Tykarski
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In Search of a Safe Port. The Marian Cult on Lampedusa amid Mass Tourism and the Migrant Crisis
EtnoAntropologia, 2021 This contribution focuses on the popular devotion to Our Lady of Porto Salvo on Lampedusa, looking at the transformations that have reconfigured it over time as a prism through which to analyse the tensions between local dynamics and global forces that ...
Francesco Vietti
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Death and the adorable orphan: Marcelino pan y vino (1954; 1991; 2000) [PDF]
, 2004 The Spanish journalist and writer José María Sánchez-Silva, unaware that he was adapting a folk tale about religious devotion rewarded, produced a complex narrative about the mother-son dyad: Marcelino pan y vino (1952).
Harvey, Jessamy
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Miraculous Images in Spain and Russia. A Comparative Study
Memoria y Civilización, 2017 It is obvious that Spain and Russia are very different countries. But comparing certain elements of their religious systems, one may observe many correspondences. Miraculous images, in Spain more often statues, in Russia – paintings, are discovered under
Denis Fedosov
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Religions, 2021 This paper is an analysis of the Santo Niño de Cebu, a statue of the child Jesus that is the object of widespread popular devotion among Roman Catholics in the Philippines. The central hypothesis is that a continuing challenge of Roman Catholicism in the
Julius Bautista
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Search for the hero: an investigation into the sports heroes of British sports fans [PDF]
, 2009 This is an initial study into British sports fans’ heroes. A questionnaire was sent to 95 students (average age ¼ 19.75) to identify their sporting hero, the hero’s sport and nationality and the reasons for this choice.
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Gendered spaces and practice,relationality, emotion and affect at the Marian shrine of Ta Pinu, Gozo, Malta [PDF]
, 2016 In this chapter the case study of Ta’ Pinu, Gozo, a site of pilgrimage for Marian devotion and the national shrine of Malta, is analysed as a gendered assemblage and an example of the intersection of gender and religion, with attention to the spatial and
Maddrell, Avril
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