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Reflection of religious motives in the heroic epic «Manas»

open access: yesNomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2023
At the beginning of the I millennium BC, one of the largest events in the history of the peoples inhabiting the mountainous expanses of Eurasia took place — the transition of steppe tribes to a nomadic lifestyle, to nomadic cattle breeding. The presented
A. A. Bakirov
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Investigating Child Adoption in the Legal Systems of Islam, the United Kingdom and the US [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2019
In this research, the issue of child adoption has been examined through applying legal rules, regulations and systems of Islam, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Child adoption means to adopt another person as his/her child by one who is not his/
Abduljabar Zargoshnasab, Parviz Bagheri
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Motherhood in crisis in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2015
The films of Argentine director Lucrecia Martel are among a number of recent works directed by women which, in the words of one critic, ‘operate according to their own stubbornly private rules, logic, timing, sense of space’ (Jones 2005).
Fiona Clancy
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Lo specchio e il ritratto. Scansioni dell’età, topoi e modelli femminili fra paganesimo e cristianesimo

open access: yesStoria delle Donne, 2006
The mythical Helen at the mirrow crying her lost beauty and youth, the old courtesan Laide vowing her mirrow to Aphrodite as she needs it no more, introduce to the problem of gradus aetatum (the ages of life) for women in Greek and Latin literature, both
Elena Giannarelli
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THE MOTHER ARCHETYPE IN THE POETRY OF N.A. KLYUEV

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2018
This article focuses on the mother’s archetype in Klyuev’s poetry. Archetypal variants of the mother’s image are mother goddess, mother earth, mother Motherland, mother wise old woman, who in turn have their artistic counterparts. The archetypal image of
Tatiana Aleksandrovna Ponomareva
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Determinants of pre-menarcheal knowledge of menstruation and sociocultural implications in college going girls: A community-based cross-sectional study from Latur, Maharashtra

open access: yesJournal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, 2016
Introduction: Adolescence marks the onset of female puberty. The first menstruation is often horrifying and traumatic to an adolescent girl because it usually occurs without her knowing about it. Implications of a girl′s response to menarche have a socio-
Namrata Arvind Thakur   +1 more
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User-created persona: Namibian rural Otjiherero speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Persona is a communicative artefact for usability that currently functions under the umbrella of User-Centred Design (UCD). Since we argue usability methods differ across cultures, this project presents a cross-cultural research probe on persona ...
Cabrero, Daniel G.
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Celsus, Toledot Yeshu and Early Traces of Apology for Virginal Birth of Jesus

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2016
In this article New Testament passages referring to the birth of Jesus are related to Celsus’ anti-Christian arguments and the Jewish Toledot Yeshu tradition with a new question: Why it was so difficult to speak about the virgin birth of Jesus?
Antti Laato
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The Role of Historical Reconstruction of Context and Historical Transformation of the Lexicon in the Understanding of Islamic Holy Traditions: A Case Study ‘Burying Girls Alive is the Sign of Honourʼ (Dafn al-Banāt min al-Makrumāt)

open access: yesHADIS, 2023
The phenomenon of Hadith fabrication in Islam is an issue that has led to questioning the authenticity of every individual Hadith. It becomes more critical when a hadith appears ambiguous or contradicts rational judgment. However, to achieve the narrator's true meaning, we should pay attention to evidence, such as the semantic evolution of a word over ...
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Unsettling Theology: Sunday school children reading the text of the Bible in the age of recolonisation

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
During Women’s month in South Africa (August), a group of Sunday school children from the rural congregation of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), Middelburg- Nasaret, got together to read the narratives of the resurrection of the ...
Nico Botha
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