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Religions, 2023 Music has played a central role in Indian religious experience for millennia. The origins of Indian music include the recitation of the sacred syllable OM and Sanskrit Mantras in ancient Vedic fire sacrifices.
Guy L. Beck
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The sacred sound of kirtan: An ethno musicological – anthropological analysis of the Sikh community in Athens [PDF]
, 2015 This paper aims to explore the dynamic relationship between music and the sacred. In particular, it presents an ethno musicological – anthropological approach of the Sikh community in Tavros in Athens, Greece.
Kosteletou, Elli
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Traces of the (m)other: deconstructing hegemonic historical narrative in Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona's Os Sertões [PDF]
, 2012 This article focuses on the way in which renowned São Paulo-based theatre company Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona deconstructs hegemonic historical narrative in their 2000 - 2007 25 hour-long production of Euclides da Cunha’s seminal Brazilian novel Os ...
Albuquerque Jr Durval Muniz de +8 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Listening in Sacred Spaces: The Sanctuary of Poseidonia and Selinunte’s Main Urban Sanctuary
Open Archaeology, 2023 The aim of this work is to analyse recent studies which have raised new hypotheses concerning aural architecture as an emerging trend in humanities research, with a particular focus on the intersection of sacred space, rituals, and sound in the past ...
Bellia Angela
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Sacred and Profane in Music Therapy
Religions, 2023 The widespread belief that music has some therapeutic potential rests partly on demonstrable, practical results. But explaining how such therapy works depends on the belief system of the explainer or practitioner.
Joscelyn Godwin
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Kyiv sacred music concert in terms of music critics (based on reviews of O.Kanievtsova in the newspaper “Kyivlianin” 1900-1917) [PDF]
, 2013 Стаття присвячена дослідженню практики проведення концертів духовної музики в Києві в період 1900-1917 р. На матеріалі рецензій критика О. Канєвцова в газеті «Киевлянин» детально висвітлені особливості ставлення слухачів до духовних концертів, їх ...
Харченко, Олена Іванівна
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Induced abortion in the world: 3. In search of a minimum common ground
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract The rising worldwide trend toward legalization of termination of pregnancy has been accompanied by increased polarization around abortion. Two opposite broad coalitions emerged from this confrontation, generally known as the “pro‐life” and “pro‐choice” movements. The basic issue for pro‐life advocates is that the protection of “innocent, human
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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Manifestations of Sacred Art in Yarasan Religion
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردیFrom ancient times, art has been a tangible expression of our deepest beliefs, reflecting human spirituality and identity, often intertwined with religion.
Ali Olfati +2 more
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