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Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation: Creating Public Sentiment [PDF]
Health Equity, 2021 Abraham Lincoln understood the importance of public sentiment to our democracy when he debated Stephen Douglas in 1858. ?In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything,? Lincoln noted. ?With public sentiment, nothing can fail.
Christopher GC.
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A Comparative Study of "41-Menbari" Religious Ceremony in Shahreza, Iran [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2021 1.Introduction Ashura and Moharam mourning rituals held in different parts of Iran are of high important among Shia rites. Each of these rituals varies depending on the days of the month of Muharram.
S. Sepehr Tabatabaei, Peyman Raei
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Tahiti and its islands: a downturn in nuptial tourism?
Via@, 2023 In the middle of the South Pacific, French Polynesia is one of the emblematic and archetypal locations for tropical island tourism. It has created a paradisiac image with its turquoise waters, white sandy beaches under the shade of coconut trees, sensual
Caroline Blondy
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The complexities of religious tourism motivations: Sacred places, vows and visions [PDF]
Annals of Tourism Research, 2018 The aim of this paper is to understand the complexity of travel motivations to sacred places. Using ethnographic techniques within the Greek Orthodox context, we argue that while motivations are institutionally constructed, they are fragile, dynamic and progressive; being embedded within everyday performances of religion.
Terzidou, Matina +2 more
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Negotiating with the Sacred Other: the Ancient Mechanisms of the Personal Vow Practice
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2020 By questioning the anthropological definition of vows as instrumental prayers, which has been generally accepted since William Christian (1989) introduced it, the paper will discuss the notion of a vow as a personal prayer in the effort to expand it ...
Mirela Hrovatin
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Narrative and Notice in Livy's Fourth Decade: The Case of Scipio Africanus [PDF]
, 2014 This paper argues for the importance of Livy's annalistic notices in structuring the author's aims and the reader's reception of the history, as against the standard conception of the notices as archaic memoranda.
Lushkov, A. Haimson
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Kabelid vepsa Šimjärve piirkonnas (19. sajandi lõpp, 20. sajandi algus) [PDF]
MäetagusedIn recent decades, a significant number of works have been published in Russian ethnology, devoted to the study of various forms of religiosity of the population in direct connection with certain territories in different historical periods, which has ...
Irina Vinokurova
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Practicing the Perfections: \u3ci\u3eCommunitas\u3c/i\u3e During the \u3ci\u3eSaga Dawa Kortsay\u3c/i\u3e at Swayambhunath, Nepal [PDF]
, 2020 Based on observations from personal participation in the 2014 Saga Dawa Kortsay at Swayambhunath Stupa complex located near Kathmandu, Nepal, my essay draws attention to the distinctive lay Buddhist community that is formed in such ritual performances ...
Sorensen, Michelle J.
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The computer as means of communication for peer-review groups [PDF]
, 1994 In a scientific-writing course, 15 of 54 students used a review-supporting computer program, PREP-EDITOR (PREP), to communicate with their peers about drafts.
Geest, Thea van der, Remmers, Tim
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Journal of Folklore and Popular CultureCult places establishing motivated by an order/vow which a person receives in a dream or vision is an international motif, well known in Serbian folkloristic and literary tradition, too.
Smiljana Djordjević Belić
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