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Prayers pro remedio animae at 14th-century Kotor [PDF]
Balcanica, 2004 With the growing belief in the reality of purgatory in medieval times, the hope was also rising of the salvation of the souls dwelling in that abode. By the fourteenth century the concept of purgatory had already been developed, and prayers, services and
Živković Valentina
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La divine comédie dans les Andes ou les tribulations du mort dans son voyage vers l’au-delà
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2004 The Andean divine comedy or the tribulations of the soul in its voyage to the hereafter. This article analyzes individual eschatological narrations registered in two peasant quechuaspeaking communities of the Cuzco region (Peru).
Valérie Robin Azevedo
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L’aspetto ecclesiale dell’esistenza cristiana nella morte
The Person and the Challenges, 2015 This article draws attention to one of the important dimensions of the Christian vision of death, namely its ecclesial dimension. Human existence, after the pilgrimage, is not a solitary existence.
Sylwester Jaśkiewicz
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Ritual Reform and Ritual Behavior
Traditiones, 2012 The article focuses on the complex question of continuity and change as exemplified by ritual policies and ritual practices during the Lutheran reformation in 16th century Denmark-Norway. Thematically the article concentrates on matrimony and funeral.
Arne Bugge Amundsen
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Stefana Grabińskiego „traktat” o duszach czyśćcowych
Litteraria Copernicana, 2013 Treaty on purgatorial souls by Stefan GrabińskiAbstractThe article is devoted to Muzeum dusz czyśćcowych [The Museum of Purgatorial Souls], a short story by Stefan Grabiński, published as part of his collection Księga ognia [The Book of Fire]. The author
Monika Kulesza-Gierat
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Figure femminili di santità nella Commedia di Dante
Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2021 The article gives a survey of the holy and blessed women mentioned by Dante in his Comedy. Some women have strong structural functions: it is the case of Beatrice, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Lucy.
Giuseppe Ledda
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Go and Sin No More: The Afterlife as Moral Teaching in Italian Catholic Educational Theatre
Religions, 2019 Catholic religious orders that have education as part of their mission have often used visions of the afterlife in theatre productions as vehicles to transmit a message of conversion, especially to those who, because of age or illiteracy, would not ...
Daniela Cavallaro
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e-Hum: Revista das Áreas de Humanidade do Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte, 2020 eoi/doi Deposit-Electronic Object Identifier http://eoi.citefactor.org/10.11248/ehum.v13i1.3090 The iconography of Souls and Purgatory: a re-reading bibliographic and some examples.
Adalgisa Arantes Campos
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One Life/Many Lives: An Internal Hindu-Christian Dialogue
Religions, 2018 This essay consists of philosophical and comparative theological reflections on the topic of rebirth, or reincarnation. Informed by the work of William James, John Hick, and Francis X.
Jeffery D. Long
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Matelda, personaggio narrativo
Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2021 This article analyzes Matelda’s narrative function, first of all noting the variety of her roles in the last Cantos of Purgatory. It is emphasized that Dante could hardly have thought of a historical figure, while it is probable that this character also ...
Alberto Casadei
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