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Le choix de Ponce Pilate, entre le sacré et le profane
Quêtes Littéraires, 2013 At the beginning of The Man and the Sacred (1939) Roger Caillois affirmed that “every religious conception of the universe implies that there is a distinction between the sacred and the profane”.
Sara Tongiani
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Civilization of Nomads and the sacral factor
Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2022 This article is devoted to a preliminary discussion of the meaning of the religious (“sacred”, namely Buddhist) in the context of the content and manifestation of what is called the “civilization of nomads” (“civilization of nomadic societies”), while ...
B. U. Kitinov
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Quêtes Littéraires, 2013 In the 18th century, the Bible felt the full force of criticism by radical Enlightenment thinkers who read it piece by piece and denounced the process of its creation as an imposture – thus extending the break initiated by moral and historical critiques ...
Geneviève Di Rosa
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Negotiating with the Sacred Other: the Ancient Mechanisms of the Personal Vow Practice
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2020 By questioning the anthropological definition of vows as instrumental prayers, which has been generally accepted since William Christian (1989) introduced it, the paper will discuss the notion of a vow as a personal prayer in the effort to expand it ...
Mirela Hrovatin
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Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection [PDF]
, 2014 Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a relationship between a father and a son,
Arel, Stephanie
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Can symbols be ‘promoted’ or ‘demoted’?: Symbols as religious phenomena
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 Religious symbols are part of our world, relating to another world. In order to understand the process by which symbols grow and develop, the particular context of a symbol is important.
Jaco Beyers
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An Exploratory Spatial Analysis of the Churches in the Southern Mani Peninsula, Greece [PDF]
, 2019 The Mani Peninsula is home to hundreds of Orthodox Christian churches that were built within the last millennium. As in other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean countryside, the topological relationship between churches and settlements is a critical ...
Kalaycı, Tuna, Seifried, Rebecca M
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Book Review: \u3cem\u3eSacred Matters: Material Religion in South Asian Traditions\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2016 Book Review of Sacred Matters: Material Religion in South Asian Traditions. Edited by Tracy Pintchman and Corinne G. Dempsey.
Pflueger, Lloyd W.
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Authenticity, Anthropology and the Sacred [PDF]
, 2002 This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Anthropological Quarterly 75:331-38. The final version of the article can be found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/3318264 (BU login required for access).
Lindholm, Charles
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Sacred communities: contestations and connections [PDF]
, 2014 This article discusses a project whose purpose was to review existing qualitative and quantitative data from two separate studies to provide new insights about everyday religion and belonging.
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