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“Nothing Sacred”: Violence, Time and Meaning in the Cinema of Possibilities
Religions, 2017 Hemingway’s disenchantment with the idea of the sacred as expressed in A Farewell to Arms became a defining aspect of the modern experience including in some Hollywood films such as Nothing Sacred and Twentieth Century.
Sam B. Girgus
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Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The article reviews the volume Onomastics between Sacred and Profane (ed. by O. Felecan, 2019), highlighting its contribution to the field of onomastic research as well as to multidisciplinary spheres of knowledge dealing with the concepts of the sacred ...
Anna V. Tsepkova
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The Tradition of Pilgrimage to the Grave of Muslim Missionaries in Misool Island, Papua [PDF]
International Journal of Islamic Thought, 2022 The aim of this article is to reveal the meaning behind the grave considered sacred by the community. This paper attempts to explain the relationship between the pilgrimage tradition at the sacred grave and the fulfilment of the necessities of life, as ...
Ade Yamin +3 more
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In Conexione: a imaginação do sagrado na ciberarte de Diana Domingues
Horizontes Antropológicos, 2008 Tendo como referência os trabalhos da artista plástica Diana Domingues será apresentada uma reflexão sobre a imaginação do sagrado nas artes visuais a partir da interpretação de temas, imagens, materiais e categorias formais que sustentam a linguagem ...
Leila Amaral
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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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Sacred webs: the social lives and networks of Minnan Protestants, 1840s-1920s [PDF]
, 2018 In Sacred Webs, historian Chris White demonstrates how Chinese Protestants in Minnan, or the southern half of Fujian Province, fractured social ties and constructed and utilized new networks through churches, which served as nodes linking individuals ...
Ireland, Daryl R.
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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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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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Heritage, crisis, and community crime prevention in Nepal [PDF]
, 2018 Following Nepal's 2015 earthquake there was speculation that sacred art would be looted from the ruins of severely damaged temples due to breakdown in formal security.
Mackenzie, Simon, Yates, Donna
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