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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor +3 more
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Apparitions of Virgin Mary: Sociological Analysis
Sociologija: Mintis ir Veiksmas, 2019 The main purpose of this article is to discuss the social aspects of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary, the development of apparition places, as well as the motivation and behavioral characteristics of pilgrims going to the miraculous places of the ...
Darius Liutikas
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Mary’s Transparent Beauty in St. Bernard’s Aesthetics
Religions, 2023 The subject of the beauty of the Virgin Mary was a delicate one in medieval aesthetic thought. Halfway between the sacred and the profane, the theological and the anthropological, the question of Mary’s beauty opened up a strictly material dimension of ...
Adrián Pradier
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The Virgin Mary motives in polish sermons of the 17th century
Studia Humanitatis, 2016 The article analyses the Virgin Mary motives in Fabiyan Birkovskyi, Yoanykiy Halyatovskyi, Lazarus Baranovych and other Baroque writers’ works. The article defines the main conceptual means of the Virgin Mary themes representation. The attention is drawn
Sukhareva Svitlana Volodymyrivna
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Do Linking‐Expression Substitutions Mitigate Deterministic Interpretations of Genetic Information?
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is a common concern that broader audiences interpret scientific information about the genetic correlates and causes of complex human traits in an overly deterministic manner. A frequently proposed way to address this issue is to carefully select the linking expressions used to describe gene–trait relationships when communicating genetic ...
Riin Kõiv
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Traditions antiques dans les scènes de l'Annonciation
Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 1990 In the numerous scenes of Annunciation there are two iconographie patterns discerned : 1. the Virgin Mary while spinning, attested since the 4th cent, in the Christian East, and 2.
Aleksandra Wasowicz
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The Transit of Mary Magdalene’s Soul in Catalan Artistic Production in the 15th Century
Religions, 2021 There are a great many studies on the figure of Mary Magdalene in different areas of knowledge. Nevertheless, there is a gap as regards the image of this character in Catalonia, and specifically regarding the visual representation of her soul at the ...
Elena Monzón Pertejo
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Why Fun Aunties Matter: A Modest Account
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, I offer a child‐centred account of the value of company‐keeping relationships between children and adults. These are relationships enjoyed by a child and an adult who is neither a mere acquaintance nor integrally involved in that child's care or upbringing.
Lesley Jamieson
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Was the Virgin Mary Perpetually a Virgin?
In Christian tradition, Mary has been regarded as the “ever-virgin,” not only at the time of Jesus’ conception but throughout her entire life. However, this belief is in tension with both the biblical text and the socio-cultural structures of first-century Judaism.
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Medieval poems dedicated to the celebration and praise of our Mother Virgin Mary
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2007 Medieval poems dedicated to the celebration and praise of our Mother Virgin ...
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