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On the Personhood of Sacred Objects: Agency, Materiality and Popular Devotion in the Roman Catholic Philippines

open access: yesReligions, 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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Saint Valentine and Epilepsy: from Medieval Devotion to Modern Global Advocacy [PDF]

open access: yesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Epilepsy, described for millennia, has historically been interpreted through supernatural perspectives, leading to the search for religious intercession.
Patricia Vilarinho Tambourgi   +2 more
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Rosaries and Statues: Mediating Divine Intervention in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

open access: yesReligions, 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

open access: yesIn 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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Symbolism and Expression of Performing Panata in the Philippines: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno of Quiapo

open access: yesReligions, 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

open access: yesReligions, 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

open access: yesEtnoAntropologia, 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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Miraculous Images in Spain and Russia. A Comparative Study

open access: yesMemoria 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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Birth of a devotion. The case of “Santa Maria dei miracoli” in Lonigo

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2014
This article discusses the events that took place in the year 1486, in a small town in northern Italy, Lonigo and the subsequent birth of a Marian devotion.
Linda Marcheluzzo
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The Construction of Architectural Ideas

open access: yesPós: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP, 2022
This work discusses how ideas are constructed in the design process of architecture projects, identifying what enables their emergence, development, selection and elimination. A qualitative and exploratory research method was used.
Isabel Caldeira Brant   +1 more
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