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Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation: Creating Public Sentiment [PDF]
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]
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?
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]
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
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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Kabelid vepsa Šimjärve piirkonnas (19. sajandi lõpp, 20. sajandi algus) [PDF]
In 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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Cult 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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The Reflections of Raa Haqi Cosmology in Dersim Folk Tales
This article illuminates the cosmology of Raa Haqi (often called Dersim Alevism or Kurdish Alevism), a rarely examined strand within Alevi Studies.
Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
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Chong Hyang Gyun has just written herself into the history books, but not for the reason she wanted.The 54-year-old spent a decade fighting the Tokyo Metropolitan Government for the right to take a promotion exam, from which she was barred because of her South Korean nationality.
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Gelibolu Yöresinde Ziyaret Fenomeni
Places of visit that have Religious attribute have carried out important function from past to now in the geography that Turkish society have been lived.
İskender Oymak
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