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De rijke processiecultuur in Vlaanderen is een merkwaardig en opmerkelijk persistent fenomeen dat uiteenlopende betekenissen in zich draagt. Die vinden hun neerslag in divers en waardevol materieel en immaterieel erfgoed. De lokale... more
לחומרים ומידע נוספים על המאמר - היכנסו לקישור: https://marianna.ruahmidbar.com/h-worldviews-in-the-film-noah-eng-article For more materials and information on this item - go to the link:... more
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Notre propos sera plus de lancer une problématique de recherche, que de faire une synthèse sur une question qui n'a jamais été traitée frontalement : la place de l' « ostau » (ou de l'etxe basque) dans la vie religieuse à l'époque... more
Writers have focused on how Hindutva discriminates against minority religions in India. In this article, I concentrate on a different theme: how the quest for purity in Hindutva marginalizes common practices of popular Hinduism, leading... more
Catholicism become the most widespread religion in Latin America.By the 1990s Latin America was responsible for 42% of the world’s Catholic population. Despite their common Catholic identity,Latin Americans also have Amerindian, African,... more
During the years 1848-1917, religious leaders in San Francisco, California responded to prostitution in a variety of ways. Protestant leaders sought to address causes of prostitution and to "reform" prostitutes. Catholic leaders attempted... more
In the article the author presents three aspects of Archimandrate Clement Sheptytskyi activities in 1944–1947 in order to save the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: 1) visit to Kyiv and Moscow as a member of the official delegation of the... more
Even thousands of years later, Lilith, the demonness, still tempts many. Her image, which appears in ancient tradition as a personification of the forbidden temptation, turns up and is manifest in our time in secular, religious,... more
By way of critical appreciation, the author (an evangelical) investigates David Tracy's analysis of the Catholic imagination in relation to popular religiosity and inculturation in lowland Philippines. A survey of contemporary Evangelical... more
The purpose of this paper is to present a clearer picture of Johann Weyer's conception of possession and exorcism by synthesizing various elements of his De Praestigiis Daemonum, and comparing these elements with Reginald Scot's The... more
"TO EARN HEAVENLY SALVATION: PEASANT RELIGION IN LITTLE POLAND FROM THE MID-16TH TO THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY This is a proposal of the complex, model outlook on the religious culture of the peasantry of Little Poland in the early... more
Religion, whether orthodox or popular, has historically played an integral part in Chinese society and contributed to a high level of cultural integration and the forming of a Chinese identity. Among the many popular deities venerated,... more
We will look at the lives of several mansin (shamans), both Korean and not. In section 1, we’ll look at the life stories of mansin from the 1970s to see how closely they follow Kim Tae-kon’s archetype of becoming, and also to give us a... more
During the past decade, worship of the Mexican folk saint Santa Muerte has been on the rise. Santa Muerte, literally translated as ‘Holy Death’ or ‘Saint Death,’ is thought to be the female personification of death, and is usually... more
After World War II in Poland took place, at least 50 miracles and apparitions , which led to significant social impact and probably hundreds of others, which remained only in the local memory. The aim of the article is to present and... more
[“Miraculous Sites” in Lesser Poland in the 16th-18th c.] One of the least studied aspects of Polish folk religiousness after the mediaeval period is the spontaneous cult of miraculous places, not recognised by the Church. This phenomenon... more
The present study investigates questions of religious syncretism and household cult through an interdisciplinary study of terracotta figurines of Egyptian deities found at Delos, an important Hellenistic Greek port of trade. A comparison... more
This article traces the trajectory of scholarship on popular Catholicism in the Philippines since 1960s. The main argument is that a shift has taken place in recent years: the turn to everyday authenticity.
In the following article we will examine at length some of the dynamics by which R. Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad—the renowned Ben Ish Hai (1834–1909) - integrated Kabbalah into daily life, and the complex way that he combined the teachings... more
The Eastern Slavic rusalki are feminine mythological beings commonly associated with water, death, and sexuality. They have been thoroughly ethnographically described, classified and compared. This paper presents a re-evaluation of D. K.... more
The past decade has witnessed a huge expansion of research on the “archaeology of ritual,” but the field is still grappling with serious theoretical and methodological issues, concerning everything from the definition of “ritual” itself... more
Este artículo ofrece una visión concisa y panorámica de la religión del pueblo en América Latina, mostrando sus grandes potencialidades y desafíos.
Razón y fe, Vol. 279, Núm. 1438 (2019) 197-209,
marzo-abril
Razón y fe, Vol. 279, Núm. 1438 (2019) 197-209,
marzo-abril
Of the numerous terracotta figurines from Hellenistic Delos, a small minority depict Egyptian deities or other figures from Egyptian religious cult. This article presents selected conclusions derived from a broader research project... more
This paper aims to critically analyse the testimonies concerning Athenian impiety trials of the classical period. First, it reaffirms the arguments that some of them must have been an invention of Hellenistic and later authors. Second, it... more
http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/159203 Ligada a ciertos ideales y luchas populares, la Nueva Canción Chilena fue un movimiento musical que surgió en la década de 1960 con piezas que, entre otras características, explícita o... more
This is the inventory of wayside shrines ('alminhas') of the Sabugal council (Portugal). Including an historical study and several maps of their locations according to their types.
The satirical writings of Lucian of Samosata had a tremendous influence on the literature of the Eastern European Haskalah, shaping its criticism of the burgeoning Hasidic movement in the nineteenth century as if there were no gap between... more
This article discusses the sociological understanding of popular religion by first exploring the theories of Gramsci. It then critiques this approach by arguing that the social construction of popular religion in contrast to... more
http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/MonthTranslation.aspx. Featured as the November Translation of the Month (2022) in Feminae on the Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index website. Did you hear the one about the Mother Superior who... more