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Theologia Viatorum, 2020 This article studies the rituals and ceremonies that are practised by Tsonga widows at a village in Giyani in Limpopo. The research is based on the observation of the exclusion of widows from church attendance and activities in the Evangelical ...
Hundzukani P. Khosa-Nkatini +2 more
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Sociabilités de jeunes filles dans l’œuvre de Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique, 2023 In this paper, we try to think about the isolation and the singularity of the young girl in the Flaubertian novel. Going through the pre-texts, we realise that this isolation was not so complete for Emma as for Félicité, and that Flaubert worked to de ...
Éléonore Reverzy
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Archery Rites: Remaking Confucian Rites
, 2023 AbstractRitual archery has a long and vital history in Chinese civilization. This chapter examines the current reenactment and digital reconstruction of the specific tradition of the Archery Rites embedded in the Confucian tradition, ritual practice and cosmology ofli, which suffered major decline in the twentieth century with modern China’s political ...
Sarah Kenderdine +4 more
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Things of the ground: Children's medicine, motherhood and memory in the Cameroon grassfields [PDF]
, 2011 Copyright @ 2011 Cambridge University PressSoon after birth, infants in the Cameroon Grassfields chiefdom of Oku are submitted by their parents to rites known generically as ‘children's medicine’ (k∂fu ∂bwan). Ostensibly performed to protect infants from
Argenti +34 more
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Être vu au spectacle de la religion pour témoigner de ses croyances religieuses ?
Pallas, 2018 The religious beliefs of the Greeks are quite neglected in historiography, contrary to the rites. Nevertheless, sources of the classical period, of which some deserve a new interpretation, show that some Greeks, in particular in Athens, could be ...
Alexandre Jakubiec
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Domestic animals and birds in traditional rites of the Mordovians: Finno-Ugric context [PDF]
Финно-угорский мир, 2022 Introduction. The article presents a study of the functions of domestic animals and birds in the traditional rites of the Mordovians and a number of Finno-Ugric ethnic groups of Russia.
Tatiana P. Devyatkina +1 more
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. The article presents the analysis of the practice of organizing collective works and duties in the traditional community of Don Cossacks.
Marina A. Ryblova
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Christianity and Slavic Folk Culture: The Mechanisms of Their Interaction
Religions, 2021 In Slavic folk culture, Christianity is a foreign, borrowed cultural model, while the oral tradition is native and familiar. The different areas of folk culture were influenced to varying degrees by the Christian tradition.
Svetlana M. Tolstaya
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Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care? [PDF]
, 2012 The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care.
Barrett, Patrick +2 more
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The Problem of Temporality in the Literary Framework of Nicholas of Cusa’s De pace fidei [PDF]
, 2014 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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