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The Consumption of the Sacred : Popular Piety in a Late Medieval Hungarian Town [PDF]
This paper interprets late medieval religious culture by considering lay expectations of and attitudes towards the clergy. The analysis is prompted by and framed around a convent controversy, which was extensively documented in the course of an ...
Erdélyi, Gabriella
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Sustainability and Its Seven Sisters
ABSTRACT There are many concepts of sustainability. Robert Solow argued that sustainability would consist of conserving human well‐being over the “very long run”, through the interactions of the environment and other stocks in human decisions and activity.
Robert D. Cairns
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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Abstract This study examines how older adults from rural Yulin, China, navigate their transition to urban life after policy‐driven resettlement. They employ various strategies to bridge their rural past with their urban present: internal continuity (preserving rural identities, values and traditions) and external continuity (recreating familiar spaces ...
Huiyuan Pang +2 more
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The Beauty and the Barrister: Gender Roles, Madness, and the Basis for Identity in Lady Audley\u27s Secret [PDF]
This thesis examines the concept of identity in the novel Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. In the mid to late Victorian period, self-definition was strongly tied to gender roles.
Hayes, Corey
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On Taking One\u27s Daily Dip in the Font: Baptismal Piety [PDF]
(Excerpt) The wife of a faculty colleague of mine has a serious problem with hip deterioration. Daily she goes to the local Y for a swim. For her a pool plunge is a matter of life and health. Most baptismal fonts are much too small for such a daily dip.
Tietjen, John H
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Praying the Advent season: Putting the coming of Christ into Christmas life [PDF]
It is now nearly a decade since a revision of the Roman Missal was predicted and now five and a half years since the Missal appeared in Latin. The process of translating the 1377 pages is an immense project.
Hardiman, Russell
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The television through religious program wanted to show that religion doctrine could be packed as entertaining program. Then, it came to us as an easy, simple, and brief lesson. But in practice, it made Moslems became individualistic.
Puji Hariyanti
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Leonarde's ghost : Popular piety and the appearance of a spirit in 1628 [PDF]
Marshall, Peter
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Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau [PDF]
In this paper I address the phenomenon of syncretism with respect to Chinese religions. An analysis of the syncretism that takes place between the three major Chinese religious traditions is first done in its personal and social ...
Eh, Edmond
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