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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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A Critique and Survey of Suhrawardi's Eschatology in the Light of Transcendental Wisdom [PDF]

حکمت معاصر, 2011
Explaining the issue of resurrection, Shahab al Din Suhrawardi reaches to the belief that the souls of the blissful and perfect virtues people are absorbed by the divine worlds of light after death, and they are not involved with the concerns of the ...
Monireh Sayyid Mazhari
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Tajemství Velikonoc v byzantském ritu prostřednictvím mysticko-teologické reflexe

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2020
This article interprets the secret of Easter in the Byzantine rite by means of mystic-theological reflection, or by means of spiritual development of a personality as perceived in the Christian mystic tradition.
Karel Sládek
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, 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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Exploring the Belief in Resurrection of the Me’enit Ethnic Group in Ethiopia

International Journal of Social Science and Religion
This study examines the resurrection myth among the Me'enit ethnic group in southwestern Ethiopia. It examines their belief in a place called Mouu, which was created by the deity Tuma and where people live on after death.
Andualem Abate Moges
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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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MOTIF OF THE MIRACLE IN THE CYCLE «THE RESURRECTION OF THE LARCH» BY VARLAM SHALAMOV

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013
The paper focuses on the development of the motif of the miracle in the narratives included in the cycle «The resurrection of the larch»by Varlam Shalamov.
L. S. Starikova
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John Navone, SJ’s Theology of Failure and Its Importance for Pope Francis’s Spirituality in Light of the Church’s Pastoral Mission to Victim/Survivors of Abuse

Journal of Moral Theology, 2023
Pope Francis has acknowledged that some of the ideas he presents in his spirituality of suffering and healing are inspired by the “theology of failure” that John Navone, SJ, put forth in his 1984 work Triumph through Failure: A Theology of the Cross ...
Dawn Goldstein
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