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Pilgrimage = Transformation Journey
During the two past decades, scholars in religious studies and social anthropology have frequently reconsidered Turner's theoretical model of pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is the outer manifestation of an inner journey, often referred to as an allegory of the
René Gothóni
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Forced Migration and Muslim Rituals: An Area of Cultural Psychology?
The psychological foundation of rites de passage have long been debated within the history of religion and related areas. The significance of such rites in facilitating emotional readjustment to a new life situation have been particularly stressed ...
Nora Ahlberg
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Birth Rituals and Associated Taboos among the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
Rites of passage are rituals or ceremonies signifying an event in a person’s life, indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood.
Landi Pussang Monia
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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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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MARRIAGE CEREMONIES AMONG KASHMIRI PANDITS AND KASHMIRI MUSLIMS
Hindus and Muslims have coexisted harmoniously when Islam became the predominant religion in Kashmir since 13th century. The Sufi-Islamic way of life of Kashmiri Muslims and the Rishi tradition of Kashmiri Hindus coexisted and complemented one another ...
Shabir Ahmad Dar, Dr. J. Muthukumar
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Valencian “Fallas”: Intangible Cultural Heritage
The article is about one of the most popular festivities in Spain, namely, Valencian “Fallas”. This feast has formed over the course of several centuries and includes a lot of rites and ceremonies, so expressive and artistic that in 2016 UNESCO ascribed ...
Larisa Kuznetsova
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Dreaming of fecundity in rural society [PDF]
In Albanian village society, the main characteristic of the social status of women, and their only function that meets social approval, is their aptitude for procreation and motherhood. And the Albanian child is first and foremost a son, who will succeed
Doja, A.
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Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions
The history of Religions is in need of subdisciplines. Those that it has are mostly derived from other academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or, to mention a more recent invention, aesthetics.
Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
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Learning that I was working on Arakanese tutelary divinities, the historian Jacques Leider kindly introduced me to an ancient manuscript in the Indochinese collection (Fonds Indochinois) of the National Library in Paris.
Alexandra de Mersan
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Scrutinising the British Monarchy: The corporate brand that was shaken, stirred and survived [PDF]
Purpose – The principal purposes of this article are to provide normative advice in terms of managing the British Monarchy as a Corporate Heritage Brand and to reveal the efficacy of examining a brand’s history for corporate heritage brands generally ...
John M.T. Balmer, John M.T. Balmer
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