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Rehearsing Justice: Theatre, Sexuality and the Sacred

, 2017
The theatre actor’s process in a rehearsal hall is reality and metaphor. It can be a rehearsal for justice, where we can live freely. In this laboratory the actor becomes all of us.
Rue, Victoria
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The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History

, 2014
“In The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, [Thum] documents how the Muslims of the region now called Xinjiang understood their past in the three centuries before the Cultural Revolution.
Thum, Rian
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NEOMYTHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY PROSE: STORIES BY LEV NAUMOV

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2016
This article is devoted to neomyphological aspects of the creative work of contemporary writer Lev Naumov. It includes a brief overview of his biography and key artistic achievements.
V A Gavrikov
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Yoysef Meyer Yavets (1832–1914), Yiddish Translator of Sacred Jewish Books

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This article examines the life and work of Yoysef Meyer Yavets (1832-1914), a figure largely neglected in scholarship on modern Yiddish literature, despite his immense influence on generations of Yiddish readers that continues to the present day.
Tal Hever-Chybowski
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Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life: Biography Paper

, 2016
This essay explores the significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life with the use of the biography, Harriet Beecher Stowe: a life by Joan D. Hedrick, along with three primary source letters that further argue her importance in the 19th century as an ...
Padalino, Alexandra
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A literary and rhetorical examination of the depiction of Luther's monastic period in Peter Manns's Martin Luther [PDF]

, 2004
Much historical writing before the nineteenth century was produced with little historiographical consciousness and sought to 'tell the story'. The nineteenth century, however, saw a shift in historical writing mainly as a result of the work of Ranke; his
Alderson, Michael Peter
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Exemplary Lives

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2007
As a literature of exemplars, Pure Land sacred biography presents the reader with the ideals of a community as much as the events of individual lives. The models for the religious life advanced in sacred biographies, however, include not only the religious practices of their protagonists, but the discursive practices of their authors, as well. The work
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Religion in the work of Frantz Fanon

, 2009
This thesis explores Frantz Fanon's engagement with religion, and its impact on his theories of race and racism. As a cultural theorist and political activist with strong Marxian-humanist sympathies, Fanon asserted that, as an irrational force, religion ...
Settler, Federico
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Review of Anne Blair, Ruxton: A Biography

, 2006
Although a relatively brief work that comes in a little over 200 pages, Anne Blair's biography competently traces and details the course of a life and career so remarkable and so public as to be deemed worthy of such a tribute from people from both sides
Crotty, Martin A.
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The Nameless Dao in Concealment: Historical Transformations of the Quanzhen Seven Masters’ Image from Antiquity to Modernity

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The Seven Masters of the Quanzhen 全真七子 sect served as central figures during the founding phase of Quanzhen Daoism and played key roles in the sect’s early development.
Xiaoting Wang, Yixuan Li
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