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The Thousand-Year Spiritual Tradition of Lesnovo Monastery in Macedonia

open access: yes, 2017
Through the rich Christian tradition in Macedonia from the early Christian, medieval and up to the modern period numerous churches and monasteries were built, where all forms of development of spiritual and cultural life took place.
Velev, Ilija
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Moments in the biography of the Neolithic vessels of Vădastra tradition at the Lower Danube

open access: yesMateriale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2019
With few exceptions, many earlier and more recent approaches to Neolithic ceramics in Romania have unfortunately been informed by the modernist dichotomies between the sacred and the profane, the functional and the symbolic, something that became the ...
Dragoman, A.
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Patrick Geddes – not only a town planner but a poet too [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Sir Patrick Geddes, one of the fathers of modern town planning, worked as a town planner in Palestine during the 1920’s. He was motivated mainly by his Zionist feeling which can be seen in an unknown poem written by him concerning his attitude toward ...
Biger, Gideon
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Notes on rabbinic epitaphs: I [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Jüdische Grabsteinepigraphik: R. Yosef Trani (1568-1639), R. Akiva Eger (d. 1837), R.
Leiman, Shnayer
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Locating the Copper-Colored Mountain: Buddhist Cosmology, Himalayan Geography, and Maps of Imagined Worlds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article explores various ways in which Tibetan authors have attempted to locate the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain (Tib. zangs mdog dpal ri), considered to be the present abode of Padmasambhava, the tantric guru famous for establishing Buddhism in
Bogin, Benjamin
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Myth and History in Sacred Biography

open access: yesMyth and History in Sacred Biography
物部晃二先生退任論集
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Hagiography

open access: yes, 2015
Jon Boorstin proposes three purposes for film production – voyeuristic, vicarious, and visceral (Boorstin). Scrutinized in light of Boorstin’s proposal, hagiographical films are most likely to have three purposes imbedded in three generic types ...
Yang, Sunggu
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