Ritualism
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Recent papers in Ritualism
Spring 2017. “Notes and Queries: James DeKoven’s Journals” in The Historiographer, Vol. LVII, No. 2, p. 4.
There is growing consensus that the insider-trading regime in the United States, the oldest in the world, is in need of reform. Indeed, three reform bills are currently before Congress, and one recently passed the House with overwhelming... more
An ethno-historical perspective on the popular magic in Sardinia.
The Oxford Movement is considered to be one of the most influential movements in the history of the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion. This paper sets out to examine this movement's far-reaching effects, particularly in... more
In examinig the religiosity of the pre-Christian Slavs the main emphasis of the researchers is to attempts to reconstruct the appearance the sacral buildings and statues, their symbolism and their function or role in the religious system.... more
The classical Vedic pravargya ritual is centered around the fashioning, consecration, and laudation of a vessel, called mahāvīra, which is then used for offerings. But there are two more vessels in the ritual, for obscure reasons. I argue... more
A kind of occult progress.
This paper examines the Anglo-papalist history of St John Maddermarket in the city of Norwich, which gave it the claim to be 'the highest church in Norwich'.
In the article of О. Kyselov "Mykola Zakovych as a Theoretician of Ritualism" the academic works of the Soviet period of professor Mykola Zakovych (1931-2017) devoted to ritualism are examined. The author explores definitions of key... more
This is the first canto of an epic poem I am working on around the themes of mythic gnostic souls communicating as voices in the liminal spaces we have yet to enter.
“Alfred Ludwig, full professor of comparative linguistics at the then German University in Prague (born 1832 in Vienna, died 1912 in Prague), was a pioneer in research pertaining to the Rigveda. He translated the Rigveda completely into... more
Nowadays, cities function as global centres of political and economic decisionmaking, as spaces for the process of accumulation, and as scenarios of and for social conflicts, among other issues. The recent events in cities such as New... more
Los estudiantes de bachillerato se encuentran sujetos a la influencia de diversos agentes de socialización que los lelvan a sobrevalorar en términos personales la educación escolarizada y los certificados que ésta otorga. El documento por... more
El texto aborda la importancia de la cultura popular en el folklore, en los rituales festivos y especialmente en el desarrollo de los carnavales, a lo largo de más de diez siglos. Se presenta una breve muestra de los rituales... more
The present article, based on field evidence collected in 2017, deals with a very recent phenomenon-the Orthodox Old Believers in Uganda. This faith originated in Russia, however in Uganda all its adherents belong to African ethnic... more
Guy Thorne (1876-1923) was a journalist, sportsman, avid drinker, man-about-town, and a committed Anglo-Catholic. Like many of his contemporaries, Thorne was caught up in the so-called “Great Church Crisis,” a conflict between the... more
Both Anglican factions labored to win the support of the next generation, but zealous Protestants approached this task with great urgency. They feared that duplicitous Anglo-Catholics were “Romanizing” their children through the Church... more
Based on almost a decade of fieldwork and a cross-disciplinary approach (anthropology, sociology, history), this book explores the popular China revival of Confucianism that has taken place in China since the beginning of the twenty-first... more
What was the South African War of 1899-1902 really about? Was it about gold, high finance, and geopolitical maneuvers? Or was it about God's wrath and the desire of the papacy to destroy the Protestant British Empire? Most historians... more
Whereas Education is a prime area to study the exercise of power, the article analyzes the way power operates discipline which is exercised over the bodies of individuals and intended to watch them, control them and train them in order to... more
Britishness and the Oxford Movement" Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise and fall of several religious movements, but few proved as long-lasting and influential as the Oxford Movement. Although overt interest in the Oxford... more
У статті аналізуються вітчизняні роботи з наукового атеїзму 1980-х років, присвячені релігійній обрядності. Автор виділяє три групи проблем, в контексті яких розглядалася релігійна обрядовість: 1) структура та функції релігії; 2)... more
The paper deals with a very recent phenomenon – the communities of Orthodox Old Believers (or Old Ritualists, or Old-Rite Believers) in Uganda. Nowadays, when the center of world Christianity is drifting towards the global South including... more