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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Cults"”.
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Cults: A Psychological Perspective
<p>Cults are communities that are seen as odd or strange. Lack of research done on cults makes it a phenomenon in society. With the help of evolutionary, social, and cognitive psychology, this phenomenon was analyzed and the behavior of the cult and its members were explained. Analysis of cults …
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The Regional Cults of Thessaly
… history of religion, and analyzes its regional cults. By regional cult, I mean those cults which are attested in more than one place in Thessaly but do not have a near-panhellenic distribution outside of Thessaly. The problem is approached through a detailed study of the available literary, …
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Cults of Artemis in Ancient Greece
… apparatus was replete with blood and death. Her cults displayed awe-inspiring elements of primitivism. Together with Dionysus, to whom she is mythologically and ritually related, she presents a riddle for the student who tries to understand her place in the Greek pantheon. In accordance with the …
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Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture
… how popular entertainment media portrays cults. My intention is to see how the selected films and television shows portray issues of hierarchy and culpability within the cult and to explore how the genre and theme of the content was utilized in order to evoke certain reactions and …
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Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities in pre-Islamic Arabia
My doctoral thesis delves into the political and cultural developments of pre-Islamic late antique Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the seventh century, Arabia was on the …
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God's Chosen: The Cults of Virgin Martyrs in Anglo-Saxon England
… by those who had the authority to promote their cults; and, secondly, to explore the specific appeal the Mediterranean female martyrs held for Anglo-Saxons.</p>
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‘The Worship of Failure’: Cults of Personality in Three Failed Fascist Movements
Cults of Personality are a noted feature of virtually every dictatorship of the 20th Century and have received a great deal of scholastic investigation. However, reasonably little work has been done on the cults of failed, would-be dictators and political agitators. This thesis aims to study the …
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Seeking God by strange ways : cults and societies in fin de siècle literature
… because they describe alternative religious cults and societies and spiritual rites of passage, while exploring social and cultural transitions. This exploration often brings with it abjection, marginalization and alienation. In addition to raising questions of “gender inversion”, sexual …
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Globalizing the Sculptural Landscapes of the Sarapis and Isis Cults in Hellenistic and Roman Greece
… the Sculptural Landscape of Isis and Sarapis Cults in Roman Greece,” asks questions of cross-cultural exchange and viewership of sculptural assemblages set up in sanctuaries to the Egyptian gods. Focusing on cognitive dissonance, cultural imagining, and manipulations of time and space, I …
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In pursuit of tradition: Local cults and religious conversion among the Sambla of Burkina Faso
This dissertation addresses the construction of identity among the Sambla, a Mande speaking group of western Burkina Faso, in relation to religious shifts of affiliation. Past religious regional movements in the Volta region and contemporary religious changes among the Sambla show that local …
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Eleusis contra delphi: the idea of eternal return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek mystery cults
… emphasis on Heraclitus and the Greek mystery cults. As I shall demonstrate, one would have ground to trace the thought of eternal return to the Heraclitean fragment B52, which, through the notion of αἰών, asserts the ever-youthful and ever-repeating cycles of existence. To Heraclitus, mortal …
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Dynamics of kinship and the uncertainties of life: Spirit cults and healing management in northern Thailand
… The thesis investigates how matrilineal spirit cults, personhood, and social relatedness are created, shaped and transformed through the struggles of illness and healing management. It examines the complex relations among illness, kinship and personhood in reincarnation, healing, lineage …
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Household Shrines and Cults in Roman Achaia: A New Approach to Examining Cultural Change under the Roman Empire
<p>This study explores the changing nature of household cult practices, a currently under-studied category of evidence, in the Roman province of Achaia, from the first century BCE to the fourth century CE, with reference to pre-Roman domestic religion. The primary aim of this investigation is to …
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The concept of territory in the late Anglo-Saxon and early Medieval cult of Saints in England
… enjoyed high levels of popularity through their cults. Not all instances were the same, and cults differed in size and construction. The distances over which cults could command attention varied, as did the social groupings that they catered for. This work constitutes a discussion of the …
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Controlling Miasma: The Evidence for Cults of Greek Craftspeople from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period (6th - 2nd c. BCE)
This study addresses a previously neglected aspect of ancient Greek popular religion, the specific practices undertaken by craftspeople to enhance their lives and protect their livelihood. By collecting the archaeological and iconographic evidence of workers' or industrial cult, primarily from the …
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Some cults of Greek goddesses and female daemons of oriental origin: especially in relation to the mythology of goddesses and demons in the Semitic world
In Chapter One we discuss the evidence for Mycenaean trade and colonisation in the Orient, and for oriental trade and colonisation in the Aegean and Greece. We begin with such subjects as archaeological artefacts, artistic motifs and styles of architecture, then consider the linguistic evidence, …
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