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The Terracotta Altars of Morgantina: A Study of the Form, Production, Use, and Development of Arulae from Hellenistic Sicily
… comprehensive study of cylindrical terracotta altars, often referred to as arulae. Arulae are considered characteristic of the material culture of Hellenistic Sicily and thought to represent a significant body of evidence for domestic cult practice. However, no comprehensive treatment has been …
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Konstruktionen av det heliga. Altarna i det medeltida Lunds stift
This dissertation deals with the subject of altars in the churches of the medieval diocese of Lund. The main work on altars in the Catholic church is Joseph Braun´s Der christliche Altar in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung (1924). However, despite its extensive content it does not deal with the …
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Exploring Sacred Objects And Their Meanings In Catholic Mexicano Households: Domestic Religious Practices In San Antonio
… formed with the objects used on traditional home altars in the Catholic Mexicano community of San Antonio, Texas to demonstrate how objects help maintain connections with past and present religious, personal, and cultural traditions and identities. </p> <p>Traditionally Catholics of Mexican …
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'A City of Brick': Visual Rhetoric in the Roman Principate
… myth and depiction of citizenships on the altars of the Lares Augusti, that is, altars dedicated by the plebs, slaves, and women at neighborhood crossroads to the household Gods of Augustus. The conclusion considers the impact of the case studies on rhetorical history, arguing rhetoric …
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Liturgická reforma oltáře a její aplikace v královéhradecké diecézi
… of a catalogue of selected major churches and altars in the Diocese of Hradec Králové, describing the current state of these spaces with respect totheir probable time of origin. Given the selection of cases, this section is the longest. The final chapter synthesizes the examined spaces, tracing …
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La Cultura Que No Cambia
… family. By collecting stories and photographs of altars, I can observe and create work based on how the legacies can change through generations or stay the same. The memory of my ancestors and family traditions is strengthened. Growing up seeing discrimination towards others has influenced me to …
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Marriage or a Multiplicity of Meanings? The Dextrarum Iunctio on Roman and Early Christian Funerary Monuments
… and complementary images on funerary altars and sarcophagi.
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Patriarchal religion as portrayed in Genesis 12-50 : comparison with Ancient Near Eastern and Later Israelite religions
… worship and cultic practices, such as altars, prayer, pillars, tithes, vows and ritual purity. These aspects are studied in the light of both second millennium ancient Near Eastern and Israelite parallels. This is legitimate since patriarchal religion is portrayed as pre-Mosaic, and …
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The Hero's Journey
… gemstones and other materials to create shrines, altars, and other objects. Juxtaposing these properties, found in my research of esotericism and mythology, with action figures establishes symbolic connections that act as an interface to the spiritual symbolism explored in each piece.</p> <p>The …
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The works of art within the Church of St Francis of Assisi, Valletta
… on the major works embellishing the church’s altars, ceiling, dome and choir. The works chosen for the study are contextually analysed according to the history of the church structure and the artistic scene in the Maltese Islands. A stylistic, formal and iconographical analysis along with a …
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Religion of the Roadways: Roadside Sacred Spaces in Attica
… form of open-air precincts, small temples, and altars, and they flourished throughout Athens, the Attic demes, and the more rural areas of Attica. The divinities that were worshiped at these spaces of transition reflect a broader spectrum than those commonly linked with roads: Hermes, Hekate, …
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Craft and Culture: the design, production and consumption of silver in Ireland in the seventeenth century.
… society in the seventeenth century. On church altars, in the bed chambers of nobility, within the strongboxes of town corporations and on the dining tables of merchants, silver was a practical and decorative feature of day-to-day life in Ireland. This thesis accounts for the history of silver – …
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The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing
… Martin’s A Recent Martyr, Rebecca Wells’ Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Brenda Marie Osbey’s All Saints, and Erna Brodber’s Louisiana. The authors enact spiritual and cultural reclamation through the written expression of key components of postcolonial …
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The door motif in Roman art: 200 BCE – 320 CE
… with this motif: domestic decorations, urns, altars, cippi, loculus slabs, stelae, and sarcophagi. Particular attention is paid to the distribution of this extant material, their chronology, context, formal characteristics, and any unusual features related to the door motif’s appearance. In …
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The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
… and elites, inserted magical prayers at saint altars asking for good deaths in avoidance of bad ones. A bad death signified a sudden and often violent death with no pious preparations beforehand.
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Family ministry perceptions and practices in Hmong Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches: a multiple case study
… the central shrine for religious instruction via altars, offerings, sacrifices, and rituals. Fathers were the primary religious instructors of children, followed by clan spirit fathers, and the shaman and religious experts. Through this research, it was discovered that since conversion, the Hmong …
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The Iron Age I Structure on Mount Ebal: Excavation and Interpretation
… life of the central hill-country settlers. Altars played an important role in centralizing peoples in the ancient world. In light of the claim of the biblical tradition that a cultic site located on Mt. Ebal played a centralizing role in the process of the Israelite sedentarization, it does …
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Choir Screens and Digital Technologies: Reconstructing Church Interiors and Mendicant Altarpieces in Medieval Pisa
… *pulpitum*, including its disposition of altars, artworks, and shrines circumnavigating the screen. This includes panel paintings by Lippo Memmi and Deodato Orlandi and a sepulchral monument comprising the tombs of Archbishop Simone Saltarelli and Fra Giordano. Part III focuses on San …
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The Iron Age II city gates in Palestine: The textual and archaeological evidence
… vats, monumental stelae, standing stones, stone altars, reliefs, orthostats, sculptures, silos or pits, oil presses, arrowheads, scales or weights, favissae , incense stands, ovens, pottery vessels, clay or bronze figurines, inscriptions, seals, and metal or stone objects. Chapter 5 provides a …