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Narasimha, Lord of Transitions, Transformations, and Theater Festivals: God and Evil in Hindu Cosmology, Myth, and Practice [PDF]
, 2016 This paper focuses on the multi-faceted nature of the divine depicted in Narasimha and the unique perspectives on God and evil offered by the myths of Narasimha, which is also subliminally represented within the religious practice and performance ...
Vemsani, Lavanya
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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The increasingly close ties between leading politicians and journalists in Britain have been to the detriment of the public interest [PDF]
, 2014 The British press, from the Sun to the Telegraph and most points in between, were quick to castigate the Crown Prosecution Service for its attacks on the ‘free press’ after the acquittal of Rebekah Brooks and despite the conviction of Andy Coulson. There
Temple, Mick
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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The God Who Is Visible to All: Healing and Sun Worship in Śrīvidyā Tantra
ReligionsThe aim of this paper is to discuss sun worship and healing practices in Samayācāra Śrīvidyā, a Hindu tantric tradition. Thus, I use anthropological and philological perspectives to show how the contemporary Samayācāra Śrīvidyā guru of Śrī Lalitāmbikā ...
Maciej Karasinski
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Ritual Art: a Key to the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996 The Bambara sculpture is a ritual object, in fact one of the dramatis personae of a ritual drama. The Civara, as it is called, is carried on the head during the ritual dance as a token of the presence of the mythical antilope which brought agriculture to
Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Inti Raymi ehk päikesepüha - Kolumbuse-eelse Peruu inkade suurimaid usupühi [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2004 The Sun festival Inti Raymi was one of the major events in Tahuantinsuyu, and all the high-ranking members of the country partook in the festivities. In the Inca religion Inti Raymi therefore involved a mass pilgrimage to the Sun Temple Cori cancha, in ...
Tarmo Kulmar
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BMC Oral Health, 2022 Background Regenerative endodontic procedures (REPs) have achieved clinical success on the immature permanent teeth with pulp necrosis, and can promote root development. However, preoperative factors and their effects on root development of REPs have not
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, 2013 Time in written form pervades our social existence. From the daily news, whether on the web or in print, to wall calendars in our homes or offices, which tell us what day it is; from personal watches or cellphones to public clocks, which tell us what ...
Hannah, Robert
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