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Consensus shattered : Japanese paradigm shifts and moral panic in the post-Aum era. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Any discussion of the factors shaping attitudes to, and patterns of conflict over, new religious movements (NRMs) in Japan today has to be conducted in the light of the activities of Aum Shinrikyô.
Reader, Ian J.
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The orientation of the Mithraea in Ostia Antica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We conducted an investigation on the orientations and geometrical content of the Mithraea of Ostia Antica. A geometrical CAD study based on the most reliable plans from the Archives of the Sovrintendenza Speciale per il Colosseo, il MNR e l’Area ...
Carnevale, Flavio   +6 more
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The rites of man: The British Museum and the sexual imagination in Victorian Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In the nineteenth century, the British Museum possessed a locked store of erotic objects. However, this did not serve to sanitize the rest of the collection.
Janes, Dominic
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Atenica: In search of lost pyre

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
Symbolic and cult practices of a community undoubtedly play an important role in the formation of funerary contexts. On the other hand, in the absence of written records on these practices, archaeologists are inclined to base their interpretations upon ...
Staša Babić, Zorica Kuzmanović
doaj   +1 more source

The beast initiate: the lycanthropy of Heracles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The obscurantist Hellenistic poet Lycophron referenced the initiation of Heracles as a beast suckling the breast of the goddess Hera. This was the event that was the mythological origin of the Galaxy and of the lily flower that incarnated the same ...
Ruck, Carl
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Comparative Analysis of the Khazar and Slavic-Russian Attire of Adornments

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2017
The author analyzes the development traditions of the costume and associated attire of adornments characteristic of the Slavs and Khazar Khaganate peoples.
Zhilina Natalia V.
doaj   +1 more source

Theoretical Spectral Models of the Planet HD 209458b with a Thermal Inversion and Water Emission Bands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We find that a theoretical fit to all the HD 209458b data at secondary eclipse requires that the dayside atmosphere of HD 209458b have a thermal inversion and a stratosphere.
A. Burrows   +5 more
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Exploring site formation and building local contexts through wiggle-match radiocarbon dating: re-dating of the Firth of Clyde Crannogs, Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
There are at least four wooden intertidal platforms, also known as marine crannogs, in the Firth of Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland. The interpretation of these sites partly depends on their dating and, if coeval, they could point to the presence of
Cook, Gordon   +3 more
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Divine Leadership and The Ruler Cult in Roman and Contemporary Times [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Seeing how the idea of the ‘ruler cult’ and the necessary ‘myth-making’ to establish it exists to this day, as seen with the regime of a 21st century dictator like Kim Jong-il, it would be most interesting to see what parallels exist between cases of ...
Van der Molen, Jan M.
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Navigating Market Constraints: Sustainable Startups Driving Transformative Change Through Venture Creation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to venture‐creation research by examining how sustainable startups can overcome market constraints to drive transformative change through their business development. Conceptually, we address this question by identifying venture‐creation narratives in the learning and experimental phases of sustainable startups that ...
Ville‐Veikko Piispanen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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