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Constructing the Buddha’s Life in Early Buddhist Monastic Arrangements at Nagarjunakonda

open access: yesReligions
This study investigates the rationale behind the combination of Buddha mahāstūpas (mahācetiyas) and cetiyas (caityas) within a Buddhist monastery. In integrating a broader intellectual program, the universality of the concept is exemplified, wherein ...
Young-Jae Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Giovani, religione e pluralismo culturale: percorsi identitari e socializzazione

open access: yesCulture e Studi del Sociale, 2021
According to Sayad (2002), migrations play a 'mirror function', i.e. they allow us to refocus on issues that are already present in immigrant societies but have been overlooked in scientific-political analysis and debate.
Isabella Crespi, Roberta Ricucci
doaj  

A Brook Runs through It: Fresh Water from the Bach for Today\u27s Thirsty Church [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
(Excerpt) Not Bach [brook], but Meer [sea] should be his name, Beethoven once said of Johann Sebastian Bach. 1 In this anniversary year marking the two-hundred and fiftieth year of his death on July 28, Bach is receiving extraordinary attention, which ...
Bangert, Mark P
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

“I usually sculpture from my own imagination”. The sacred works of Janina Reichert-Toth in Lviv and Cracow

open access: yesSacrum et Decorum, 2014
This paper is a presentation of the biography of a forgotten Polish sculptor, Janina Reichert-Toth (1895–1986). One of the first female students of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, a student of Konstanty Laszczka, in the interwar years in Lviv she ...
Karolina Grodziska
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V. The hagiographic topic in I. S. Shmelev’s novel The Inexhaustible Chalice

open access: yesСлово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2018
In this article, we discuss the hagiographic topics in I. S. Shmelev’s novel The Inexhaustible Chalice, which are expressed through different components of the novel’s literary structure — ranging from the individual traits of the main character, Ilya ...
Kochetkova O. L , Gaponova Yu.
doaj   +1 more source

Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

D’Annunzio fruitore di musica a Venezia

open access: yesArchivio d’Annunzio, 2015
Through an examination of the correspondence, published and unpublished, the comparison of the press of the time with the biography and literary production of d’Annunzio, it is possible to know which music he listened to and comprehend his ...
Uras, Lara Sonja
doaj   +1 more source

Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 1, no. 2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. Bishop Josiah Kibira of Tanzania, Ecumenical Statesman. 2.
Lloyd, Stephen J.   +2 more
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
wiley   +1 more source

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