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Situating Pārśva’s Biography in Varanasi
Religions, 2020 This study shows how Varanasi, a site that many people understand to be a sacred Hindu city, has been made “Jain” through its association with the lives of four of the twenty-four enlightened founders of Jainism, the jinas or tīrthaṅkaras. It
Ellen Gough
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The Autobiography in Paul Claudel’s MaConversion
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2021 The article deals with the autobiography of Paul Claudel in his essay Ma Conversion written in 1913 at the request of readers. The readers believe that his biography no longer belongs to him, so the experience of his conversion should be of common ...
Konstantin V. Bannikov
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Pushkin’s Myth in the Novel "The Slynx" by T. Tolstaya: the Trickster, Buratino and “Our Be All”
Umjetnost Riječi, 2023 The article analyzes Pushkin’s myth as presented in T. Tolstaya’s "The Slynx" (2000), its structure, main components, character specifics, intertextual connections to Russian classics and the author’s own works.
Natalia Kovtun, Maria Larina
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Poetika světské lásky v hagiografickém spise o Maríi de Jesús Tomellín // The poetics of profane love in the hagiography on Maria de Jesus Tomellin [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2016 The aim of this paper is to analyze different possible ways to approach the code of love in the hagiographical biography of New Spain’s nun María de Jesús Tomellín, who lived in the 16th century in Puebla de los Ángeles.
Katarína Zatlkajová
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BIOGRAPHY OR A DECLARATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL AMBITION: HOW TO READ ECCE HOMO BY NIETZSCHE
Reflexão & Ação, 2015 This article discusses the book Ecce homo, by Nietzsche, defending that the text is an interpretation of the philosopher himself on her own thought, not to give the book a sacred tone, nor to stress his biography, but affirming a dissonant thought that ...
Lúcia Schneider Hardt
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Vincent Buckley: Shaping the Book [PDF]
, 2010 The basic shape of a biography is given by the facts of the life of its subject. The biographer’s task is to make sense of these facts: to provide a map that will show the significance of the facts, their relationship to each other and to their ...
McLaren, John
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The life of Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche [PDF]
, 1999 Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche was presumably born in 1865 and died in 1951 and was one of the most famous female religious masters in traditional Tibet. Among her various religious roles were those of pilgrim, professional singer of manis (mani pa), healer, a ...
Havnevik, Hanna
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Yeezus Is Jesuz: Examining the Socio-Hermeneutical Transmediated Images of Jesus Employed by Kanye West [PDF]
, 2018 Kanye is enigmatic in many ways. His continuous reference to deity while still embracing a person like 452 makes him worth the study and effort to explore his contribution and effect in the Hip Hop cultural continuum.
Hodge, Daniel White
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