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Fashion and Faith: Girls and First Holy Communion in Twentieth-Century Ireland (c. 1920–1970) [PDF]
With a focus on clothing, bodies, and emotions, this article examines girls’ First Holy Communions in twentieth-century Ireland (c. 1920–1970), demonstrating that Irish girls, even at an early age, embraced opportunities to become both the center of attention and central faith actors in their religious communities through the ritual of Communion.
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The Principle of Ease in Islam and It's Application in Family Law [PDF]
In the light of the Holy Quran the present article attempts at explaining the principle of ease as a fundamental element which governs Islamic legislation and it's place as a method which is based on the element of ease and common goodness in Islamic ...
Zahra Kazemi +2 more
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Reflection of religious motives in the heroic epic «Manas»
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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Motherhood in crisis in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy
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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Investigating Child Adoption in the Legal Systems of Islam, the United Kingdom and the US [PDF]
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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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
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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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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Celsus, Toledot Yeshu and Early Traces of Apology for Virginal Birth of Jesus
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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A. P. Chekhov’s “Art” in the Context of Prose at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries [PDF]
The article is devoted to the closest context of Chekhov’s “Art” — a phenomenon and a story of the same name (1886), which differs from Chekhov’s ironic stories about bohemia (“Artists’ Wives,” “Shh!,” “He and She,” “Mari d’elle,” “The First Lover,” “The
Elena V. Astashchenk
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