Reduci dalle Indie Orientali: Carlo Horatii da Castorano e Norbert Bar-le-Duc a confronto [PDF]
This article compares two figures that were involved in the 18th century Rites controversies, namely the Franciscan Carlo Horatii da Castorano and the Capuchin Norbert Bar-le-Duc, who respectively fought against the Chinese and the Malabar Rites.
Paolo Aranha
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The rites of man: The British Museum and the sexual imagination in Victorian Britain [PDF]
In the nineteenth century, the British Museum possessed a locked store of erotic objects. However, this did not serve to sanitize the rest of the collection.
Janes, Dominic
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Generational Inversions: \u27Working\u27 for Social Reproduction amid HIV in Swaziland [PDF]
How do people envision social reproduction when regular modes of generational succession and continuity are disrupted in the context of HIV/AIDS? How and where can scholars identify local ideas for restoring intergenerational practices of obligation and ...
Golomski, Casey
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The Problem of Temporality in the Literary Framework of Nicholas of Cusa’s De pace fidei [PDF]
This paper explores Nicholas of Cusa’s framing of the De pace fidei as a dialogue taking place incaelo rationis. On the one hand, this framing allows Nicholas of Cusa to argue that all religious rites presuppose the truth of a single, unified faith and ...
Aleksander, Jason
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Dialogue \u27On The Ground\u27: The Complicated Identities and the Complex Negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India [PDF]
Interreligious dialogue is a vital theological concern for the Catholic Church in India. Over the past three decades, church leaders, progressive theologians, and maverick monastics have experimented with various models and forms of interreligious ...
Raj, Selva J.
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Music and Political Space in Ancient Egypt [PDF]
Im alten Ägypten nahm Musik durch die Strukturierung von militärischen Paraden, könig-lichen Festen und religiösen Prozessionen eine wichtige Rolle im öffentlichen Raum ein.
Lieven, Alexandra von
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Divine madness: the dilemma of religious scruples in twentieth-century America and Britain [PDF]
Religious scruples were a major problem within Roman Catholic circles until the late twentieth century. This article traces the shift from the cure of scruples being seen as the responsibility of religious advisers to them being labled an obsessional ...
Bourke, Joanna
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The Past ‘Interpreter’. Historical Stratifications in the Ritual Symbolism of Saint Joseph Festivals and Holy Week in Sicily [PDF]
I temi della continuità culturale e della "sopravvivenza" del simbolismo rituale sono stati al centro dibattito in campo religioso antropologico e storico.
Buttitta I
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Dancing and Music - Notes from Guinaang, Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines [PDF]
All dancing in Guinaang may be broadly classified as social dancing. The people dance, they say, because they are happy and on the occasions when dances are held, there is a definite festive spirit, testifying to the pleasure which the participants ...
Reid, Lawrence A.
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Ritual Studies and the Study of Rabbinic Literature [PDF]
In the last two decades several important studies have been published that focus on ritual in rabbinic literature, and consider ritual to be a critically important conceptual and analytical category in approaching rabbinic texts and rabbinic culture ...
Balberg, Mira
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