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Abangan, Kejawen, and the Dream Sellers in Coastal Java
Societas Dei: Jurnal Agama dan MasyarakatThis study explores the socio-cultural dynamics of Javanese coastal communities, emphasizing the existence of their indigenous traditional beliefs: Javanism (Kejawen) with its unique spirituality and Abangan, which practically reflects Islam in a ...
Nely Rahmawati Zaimah +4 more
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Religions, 2019 In 1638 Caterina di Francesco, from the town of Siena (Tuscany), was accused by the Roman Inquisition of invoking the devil through a spell called “the white angel spell„ or “the spell of the carafe„ (incantesimo della caraffa ...
Debora Moretti
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract For over four decades we have collaborated as a team of anthropologists and Indigenous Elders of the Yanyuwa language group. The Yanyuwa are the Indigenous owners of lands and waters in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. While medicalized healthcare has not been our specific research focus, wellness and ill health have been recurring themes ...
Amanda Kearney +3 more
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Volume 19, Number 4 - May 1937 [PDF]
, 1937 Volume 19, Number 4 - May 1937. 64 pages including covers and advertisements. Hughes, Edward Riley, Commencement Geary, William Denis, O Salutaris Hostia Ryan, John J., On Propaganda and Art Gibbons, Walter F., Escape Serry, Franklin ...
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 215-230, April 2026.Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
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The Politics of Vodou: Aids, Access to Health Care and the Use of Culture in Haiti [PDF]
, 2007 During the past few years, the AIDS campaign in Haiti has been targeting Vodou officiants and organizations. These awareness and training programmes in- form officiants about the transmission and prevention of AIDS, tests for HIV and anti- retroviral ...
Benoît, Catherine
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Mediation in Matters Involving Sorcery in PNG Villages and Remote Australian Indigenous Communities
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social DemocracyThe article discusses the application of mediation to conflict involving sorcery and sorcery-related violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG) villages and remote Australian Indigenous communities.
Craig Jones, Michael S Wagambie
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An Investigation of Talisman and Breaking the Talisman in Three Persian Folk Tales (Samak âayar, Husein Kurd and Amir Arsalan Namdar) [PDF]
متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2013 There are a number of elements such as sorcery, magic and talisman in tales which may be considered nowadays as superstitions and primitive beliefs of ancient man.
aa Azizifar
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Treasure Hunt—Roman Inquisition and Magical Practices Ad Inveniendos Thesauros in Southern Tuscany
Religions, 2019 Resorting to the supernatural to find something lost is a practice that can be observed over a very large range of times and places. With the affirmation of Christianity, these kinds of habits and beliefs were considered superstitious by the Church ...
Vincenzo Tedesco
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Understanding Indigenous responses to sorcery accusation related violence: Peacebuilding by the Yuri People of Papua New Guinea [PDF]
, 2023 Witne D. Bomai, Witne D. Bomai
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