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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Sacred Space, Sacred Water: Exploring the Role of Water in India’s Sacred Places

open access: yes, 2013
This paper is exploratory in discussing the importance of water to sacred spaces in India. Traditional Hindu practices of pilgrimage have evolved because of many years of movement to places where the power of natural forces may be seen but as yet not ...
Jaiswal, NK, Fallon, JM
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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
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Space as Symbol in Sacred Architecture. The Problem of Christian Sacred Architecture

open access: yes, 2019
In contemporary research (theoretical and architectural projects) of Christian sacred architecture it has been observed that there is a lack of understanding of the phenomenon of space as one of the symbols of sacred architecture.The goal of this paper ...
Gojnik, Zorana Sokol, Gojnik, Igor
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source

call for papers: Converting sacred space : 10-12 oct 2012

open access: yes, 2012
Conference on Converting Sacred Space Call for papers Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Home, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE 10-11 oct 2012 Reality of human life – still – requires religions to be anchored in space. According to a famous dictum of Mircea
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