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“Ritual and Magic” in Buddhist Visual Culture from the Bird Totem

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Despite numerous research findings related to medieval Chinese Buddhism, the witchcraft role of bird totems in Buddhist history has not received sufficient attention.
Zhilong Yan, Aixin Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Pilgrimage to Pureland: Art, Perception and the Wutai Mural VR Reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yesInternational journal of human computer interactions, 2023
Virtual reality (VR) supports audiences to engage with cultural heritage proactively. We designed an easy-to-access and guided VR reconstruction of the murals in Mogao Grottoes, Pilgrimage To Pureland, to offer the general public an accessible and ...
Rongxuan Mu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Introduction to the Special Issue: Seeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian Religions

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Relationships between text and image in pre-modern South Asia1 have been both ignored and exploited throughout the history of western scholarship [...]
Sonya Rhie Mace, Phyllis Granoff
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The Formative Elements of the Sense of Presence and Its Impact on the Identity of the Users of Video Games [PDF]

open access: yesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2014
Nowadays video games have provided an enriched environment for their users to make a sense of presence in interactive media. A sense of presence in the virtual space of video games leads to some sort of twin-concept or even further the unity of the user ...
Behroz Minaei, Ali Razi zade
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The future of parish churches in Flanders, Belgium: a dialogue on municipality level

open access: yesIn_Bo, 2017
This paper provides an overview of the actual discussion on the future of circa 1800 parish churches in Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.
Jonas Danckers   +2 more
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Church Conveys a Church. Problem of the Language of Architecture and Religious Art in Europe Following the Second Vatican Council

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019
Article 1214 of the Code of Canon Law states that the ultimate objective of erecting any ecclesiastical architectural structure is Religious Worship. The number of new churches that have been built so far throughout Poland and elsewhere in Europe proves ...
L. Bartkowiak
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relationships between Spirituality, Religious Fundamentalism and Environmentalism: The Mediating Role of Right-Wing Authoritarianism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
According to past research, religious attitudes can strongly influence individuals’ beliefs and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationships between spirituality (the Scale of Spirituality; dimensions include religious ...
S. Skalski   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Taevavõtmed ja kristusekäed – taimed lõunapoolse Kesk-Euroopa reformatsioonieelses kunstis [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2013
One of the characteristics of the 15th–16th-century pre-Reformation sacral art in southern central Europe, as well as in the Netherlands and Italy, is the multitude of natural plant depictions.
Ülle Sillasoo
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Religious art and the public in the Principality of Serbia (1830-1882) [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2022
In the Principality of Serbia in the 19th century, the Orthodox Church represented a significant entity and had a privileged position as a state and national institution.
Kostić Ana D.
doaj   +1 more source

Deciphering the Inscriptions on “The Adoration of the Magi” by Bartholomäus Zeitblom on the High Altar of Blaubeuren

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The Blaubeuren monastery (Germany) is home to one of the most beautiful religious artistic expressions of Swabian art from the end of the 15th century, a collaborative work of various artists and workshops, including Jörg Syrlin the Younger, Michel ...
Vicente Jara-Vera   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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