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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Nakedness"”.
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Soaking Sensual Nakedness: Haptic Bathhouse Explorations
How can architecture stimulate an increased haptic experience? People with sight lack the everyday immediacy of sensory awareness as compared with people with significant sight impairment. When sight is lost, the mind compensates by heightening the other senses for receiving information. In …
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The Use of Nakedness Imagery as Theological Language in the Old Testament
This dissertation argues that nakedness language in the OT powerfully communicates theological information to the reader because of its inherent association with shame at the level of basic human experience. This dissertation surveys the texts using nakedness imagery in the OT, explaining its …
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Making Private Parts Public: American Nudism and the Politics of Nakedness, 1929-1963
The nudist movement's struggle to make private parts public reveals the multiple and contradictory conceptions of the naked body in the modern United States. Beginning in 1929, nudists championed the therapeutic benefits of exposing the body to the sun and fresh air in gymnasiums, on beaches, and …
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Intention
… house in a city. It is a form that relies an the nakedness of things (walls, columns and platforms) to define a space.
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The Influence of Code-Switching and Code-Mixing on Learning English Language in Secondary Schools: The Case of Rombo District
… like situational and metaphorical Switching and Nakedness. The study mainly used qualitative approach in data collection, analysis and presentation. Content analysis was used for data analysis and presentation. The findings indicate that Code-Switching and Code-Mixing influence student’s failure …
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Objects and interiors
… quality in both form and content. Their raw nakedness and complete self-containment suggest qualities that I associate with the imagery of goddesses from the ancient Paleolithic time period; a time when our society was matriarchal in nature and the goddess image contained both feminine and …
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Dandyism as a principle of aesthetic composition: a study of Georg Büchner, Franz Kafka and Oswald Wiener.
… eines Kampfes) and moving to the virtual nakedness of the very last ones (Ein Hungerkunstler). The analysis demonstrates how Kafka's early aestheticism folds into the late asceticism, with the dandy embodying the tension between the aesthetic and the ascetic. Finally, I show in part ill …
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Surveilling Sin: Locating Sodomy in the Early Modern Florentine Bathhouse
… bathhouse was more challenging: it permitted nakedness and, as such, often resulted in unsavory interactions between men. How might topographical and painterly representations of water, wantonness, and punishment allow the historian to check written accounts (legal, religious, literary) of …
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Disruptive bodies and peripheral politics: How naked protests disrupt the patriarchal public sphere
… societies and the unique ways in which women's nakedness and undress has been perceived with apprehension in these societies. The central question that this thesis intends to explore is why do naked protests by women in African societies trigger apprehension in bystanders and black authoritarian …
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Edmund Burke’s Moral Imagination: Interpretation and Cultivation
… of private and public life that cover man’s nakedness and dignify his nature. While the moral imagination is socially received, it is also individually cultivated in the mind and heart; additionally, it bridges the sublime and beautiful, and it balances universals, circumstance, and …
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Phenomenology of Death: The Religious Dimension in the Ethical Thought of Emmanuel Levinas
… what ontology has covered up—i.e., the brutal nakedness of being [être] that is concretized in the ethical encounter with the other who commands: “Thou shalt not kill.” This primordial interdiction obsesses and overwhelms me [moi] more than the anxiety [Angst] for my death does, as if the death …
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Christianity, Culture, and Pentecostalism in Ghana: An Ethnographic Study of Pentecostal Traditional Authorities in Contemporary Akan Society (1990s – Present)
… in national courts. To "cover" their spiritual nakedness and to reform Christianity, most of these chiefs weaponize speaking in tongues, as well as sacralise the Bible as a spiritual defence. The chiefs are also involved in culturalisation – that is to say, chiefly rituals are recast as …
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Identitas sosial pengguna jilbab dalam kelompok mahasiswi inkafa, kelompok rohis Universitas Brawijaya dan komunitas hijaber Malang
… for women with the intention of closing the nakedness. In addition is also the identity of a kindness , propriety and obedience. A headscarf or hijab is a religious symbol of islam and also used as the identity category of individual person to join a group that having the same categories of …