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Sacred entertainments

Cambridge Opera Journal, 2003
Ever since the cultural watershed of the 1960s, predictions of the imminent demise of classical music, especially in America, have been rife. Its audience, undermined by the precipitate decline in public music education and decimated by defections to pop (respectable for aspiring intellectuals from the moment rock became British), was assumed to be ...
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SACRED LANGUAGES AND SACRED TEXTS

1988
Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts is the first comprehensive study of the role of languages and texts in the religions of the Greco-Roman world, including Judaism and Christianity. It explores bilingualism, language learning, literacy, book production and translation, as well as some of the more explicitly religious factors, including beliefs about ...
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Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

2013
1. Sacred beliefs and beliefs of sacredness Jane Hubert and Brian Reeves 2. Wintu sacred geography of northern California Dorothea J.Theodoratus & Frank LaPena 3. Sacred and secular neolithic landscapes in Ireland Gabriel Cooney 4. Sacred Space in the Culture of the Arctic Regions O. V. Ovsyannikov & N. M. Terebikhin 5.
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From the Sacred to the Sacred Object

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 2012
The philosophy of Bruno Latour has given us one of the most important statements on the part played by technology in the ordering of the human collective. Typically presented as a radical departure from mainstream social thought, Latour is not without his intellectual creditors: Michel Serres and, through him, René Girard.
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The cosmopolitanism of the sacred

2015
This chapter argues that cosmopolitanism must have some basic notions of both the cultural distinctiveness of different societies and the unity of human kind. It explains the fact that cosmopolitanism is neither new nor necessarily seculara and discusses the uneven development of cosmopolitanism over time; there is no steady and certain progression ...
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Sacred Place and Sacred Places

2022
Abstract Sacred places have characterized most known settled societies. They have been both religious, domestic, civil, and related to the natural world. The Renaissance looked back to both Greek and Roman models, but in Europe, the Gothic model retained its importance. A lively debate as to whether sacred spaces are needed, and if so
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The sacred path

Nursing, 2007
After one bad day, I was ready to quit nursing. But a patient I barely knew changed my mind.
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Sacred Places and Sacred Landscapes

2012
AbstractThis article discusses sacred places and landscapes within Mesoamerica. Sacred places and landscapes are created and evolve through human acts. While these places may reflect the cosmological organizing principles of society, they are not merely cosmograms but dynamic, complex landscapes created as settings for the reenactments of mytho ...
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Sacred Laws and Sacred Republics

2012
This chapter considers theories on sacred laws and republics. For civic humanists, laws are sacred as long as they reflect divine wisdom, and because their object is not just whatever is good but rather the divine good, which is the public good. In order to ignite and sustain loyalty within a citizenry toward laws and statutes, a republic must foster ...
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Sacred Sands, Sacred Lands, Sacred Men

Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, 2003
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