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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 427-438, June 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774–1776
, 2022 Book Review of Our Lives, "Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence", 1774–1776.
Jim Blackburn
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 308-319, June 2026.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
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Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred [TOC]
, 2020 Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology (analyzing Pärt’s signature “tintinnabuli” method), cultural and media studies (Pärt’s audience is uncannily broad within and beyond the contemporary classical ...
Engelhardt, Jeffers +2 more
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Alphonse de Lamartine et Etienne Dinet: biographes du Prophète de l’Islam [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb wa Al-ʿulūm Al-Insāniyyaẗ - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Qanāẗ Al-SiwaīsThis comparative study analyzes two biographies of the Prophet Muhammad written by two French authors from the 19th and early 20th centuries: Alphonse de Lamartine, a Christian poet and politician, and Étienne Dinet, a painter who converted to Islam. The
Mona Abdel Rahman Abdel Fattah
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, 1914 Sister Eucharia was born Olive May Pearce on 14 December 1914. On the 8th of December 1933, at the age of twenty-two, Sister Eucharia entered the convent.
Sister Mary Eucharia
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Defining, transforming, and providing sacred presence : a sarcophagus reliquary in the Menil Collection [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis attempts a complete object biography of a fifth-century sarcophagus reliquary currently held by the Menil Collection in Houston. This thesis proposes that the Menil reliquary is a container with acute agency in its original context that ...
Mann, Jacqueline Elizabeth
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“The Skilful Word” by priest A. V. Anisimov: from the history of the Russian spiritual mission in Jerusalem in the latter half of the 1880s [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной ЦерквиThe article characterises the educational activities of the visiting employee of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem, priest Alexander Vasilyevich Anisimov in 1887–1889.
Tsys Valeriy, Ol′ga Tsys′
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From madrasah to museum : a biography of the Islamic manuscripts of Cape Town
, 2011 This paper focuses on the Islamic manuscripts of Cape Town, locally referred to as kietaabs, written by Muslims predominantly in the 19th century, in jawi (Arabic-Malay) and Arabic-Afrikaans.
Jappie, Saarah
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Michael Harrington: An ``Other American\u27\u27
, 2010 This talk was presented at Sacred Heart University on February 17, 1993 as part of a lecture series in memory of Max Dickstein, Daniel Friedman Gottlieb, and Ned Gottlieb. It will be included in Prof.
Isserman, Maurice
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