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The Culture of Shaker Placenames: Sacred Geography and Communal Biography

Names, 2003
From 1776 to 1898, the Shakers established over twenty villages across the eastern and midwestern United States. Shaker theology and communitarianism defined the basis for the spiritual names of these settlements and the pragmatic descriptors that ...
Christine De Vinne
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Questioning of Authentication and Epistemology in Tafsir al-Jilani [PDF]

Analisa: Jurnal Pengkajian Masalah Sosial Keagamaan, 2012
In this research, the author critically analyzes a biography of Shaikh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani containing sacred myths. The analyst of sacred myth about ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani is based on the approach of applied anthropology to distinguish between the ...
Irwan Masduqi
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Narrating the Human and Singing the Sacred Song: Notes toward an Aesthetic of Biography

Er(r)go, 2021
Drawing upon the theoretical writings of Tzvetan Todorov and Georg Lukács on the subject of the novel, this essay argues for more widespread recognition of the biography as a literary genre.
John Matteson
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King Phrom’s sacred biography through time: reshaping Yonok-Lanna political Buddhist identity in Siam and Lao

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This article examines the sacred biography of Phrom, a cultural and divine Buddhist hero of Yonok. It also unravels the impact of his biography on the re-construction of Yonok-Lanna political identity in Siam and Lao.
Phibul Choompolpaisal
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Official and Real Biographies in Context of Soviet Tradition of Non-Material Incentives for Labor during Great Patriotic War

Научный диалог, 2021
The question of the use of the official labor biography in the 30—40s of the twentieth century as a means of instilling a sacred attitude to work in a Soviet person, a method of non-material stimulation of the production process is considered.
N. V. Starikova, A. V. Shurshikova, M. Y. Shlyakhov   +2 more
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“Life of Constantine” by Eusebius of Caesarea as “sacred history”: a typology of Moses — Constantine [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2023
In the article, the conceptual model of the holy emperor in one of the first monuments of Christian hagiographic literature, “Life Constantine” by Eusebius of Caesarea, is investigated.
Maksim Prikhodko
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Comparison as a Provisional Activity

Religions, 2020
The careers of many scholars in various disciplines have been focused on the study of hagiography, including that of the author. Yet, as those scholars have uncovered new knowledge and employed new interpretations of the materials at hand, the very ...
Nikolas O. Hoel
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Ventriloquial Acts in Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda’s Mística Ciudad de Dios

Religions, 2023
Sor María de Ágreda (1602–1665), a Franciscan nun and Abbess of the Conceptionist monastery at Ágreda, was a prolific writer whose theological works are yet to be extensively studied. In this article, I examine the practice of divine ventriloquism in Sor
Rosilie Hernández
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W poszukiwaniu tożsamości. Lwów w twórczości Adama Zagajewskiego

Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 2020
The paper devoted to an important theme in Adam Zagajewski’s work: the search for identity. Using the author’s biography as the background, the author of the paper refers to various works by the writer (including Two Cities, To Go to Lvov, and Should We ...
Zoriana Czajkowska
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MALIK BADRI, SPREADER OF LIGHT FROM SUDAN

Psikis: Jurnal Psikologi Islami, 2022
At the end of the 20th century, a new scientific movement emerged in psychology called Islamic Psychology. Islamic psychology emphasizes the view of fitrah (sacred nature) in science.
Nita Trimulyaningsih, Fuad Nashori
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