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Creating Sacred Spaces: The Power of Rap Music on the Religioius Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2019
Rap music is the sound and soul of the Hip Hop culture—a powerful social, musical, and political phenomenon of the late twentieth century. Born among the youth in the poor districts of New York, the genre has extensive roots: Puerto Rican, Latino, and ...
Barbara B. Pemberton
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Andrew Melville, sacred chronology and world history: the Carmina Danielis 9 and the Antichristus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The accepted view of the ecclesiastical reformer Andrew Melville (1545–1622) as the dynamic leader of the Presbyterian movement in Jacobean Scotland has been severely eroded in recent years, with particular criticism of the actual importance of his ...
Backus   +15 more
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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

MAN VS NATURE: ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION WORKS OF LITERATURE OF XX CENTURY

open access: yesДокса, 2015
The article investigates the binary opposition of «Man - nature» in the literary works of the twentieth century, particularly in the extravaganza Maurice Maeterlinck «The Blue Bird» and the drama of Lesya Ukrainka «Forest Song».
Фаріда Тихомірова
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Iranian Realist Manifestation in the Second Pahlavi Era [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2019
The prominence of poetry of a period, and achieving a new style and language requires norm-evasion and abandoning the form, language, theme, subjects, and traditional useless images that this process was done in the poems of the second Pahlavi era due to
Moharran Rzayethy Kishekhaleh   +2 more
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Vincent Buckley: Shaping the Book [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Archetype of Paradise: Images of Sacred Space in the Gonçalves Dias poetic

open access: yesTravessias, 2019
With  the romantic utopia,  the poetry  of Gonçalves Dias expresses the feeling for his homeland, elevated to the condition of sacred place, in our view, the archetype of earthly paradise, where nature transmits the charm to those who live far away ...
Moisés Carlos Amorim, Diego Pinto Sousa
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