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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Popular religion"”.
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Popular Religion in Gaelic Ireland 1445 - 1645
Increased interest in the area o f ‘popular religion’ among historians is a relatively recent phenomenon. John Bossy traces its origins to the school o f ‘religious sociology’ which was inaugurated in France in 1931 by the canon law historian, Gabriel le Bras. 1 It is certainly true that historians …
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Organized-crime growth and sustainment: a review of the influence of popular religion and beliefs in Mexico
… historical origins and its influence on popular religion and narco-corridos (ballads). More precisely, this thesis explores how the narco-cultura appropriates religion and religious symbolism to maintain the growth of organized criminal groups.
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Indirect dialogue between Chinese Christians and Muslim Huis: on the concept of collective transcendence deeply rooted in Chinese culture
… in the thoughts of Chinese theologians and in popular religion in China. This thesis also examines the interactions of Chinese Christianity and Chinese Islam with Chinese culture, using the notion of collective transcendence as a hermeneutical lens. The influence of Chinese culture on …
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Roots and wings: orthodoxy, tradition, and creativity in Irish folk Catholicism
… research is guided by the theory that folk, or popular, religion is a dynamic process in which individuals and groups utilise the resources of orthodoxy, popular tradition, and personal creativity, to better interpret, articulate, and create religious experiences. Ethnographic fieldwork was the …
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Muslim common religious practices at the Cape : identification and analysis
… examines the side by side existence of Popular Islam, or Muslim Common Religious Practices, with Official Islam in the Cape of today. Our task is thus primarily to identify the popular movement as no systematic documentation in this field has to date been attempted. Almost all approaches …
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Clergy and Commoners: Interactions between medieval clergy and laity in a regional context
… the relationships between official and popular religions. In the context of an examination of these interactions in the Humber Region Lowlands during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, this thesis illustrates the roles that laity had in the construction of official and …
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Controlling Miasma: The Evidence for Cults of Greek Craftspeople from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period (6th - 2nd c. BCE)
… 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 Archaic through …
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Genealogies of the Citizen-Devotee: Popular Cinema, Religion and Politics in South India
… genealogical study of the intersections between popular cinema, popular religion and politics in South India. It proceeds with a particular focus on the discursive field of Telugu cinema as well as religion and politics in the state of Andhra Pradesh from roughly the 1950s to the 2000s. By …
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A sense of belonging : religion and identity in Yorkshire and Humber fishing communities, c.1815-1914.
… is concerned with the relationship between religion and identity in fishing communities with special emphasis being given to the three communities of Scarborough and Filey on the Yorkshire coast, and Grimsby on the Lincolnshire side of the Humber coast. The study examines the development of …
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Sound affects: remaking Taiwan through traditional religious practices
… the notion of “tradition” at the intersection of religion, gender, and nation-building in Taiwan through an ethnographic investigation of popular religion. Drawing on data collected during nineteen months in 2017 and 2019-20, I trace how younger generations of Taiwanese take ownership of religious …
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"Once Mistress of the World :" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
… of cult worship the devotional trends of popular religion, and with them the deeds of the poor or middling ranks in society. This broad examination of devotion in terms of geography and social rank contributes to a dynamic image of the late antique and early medieval worlds, providing …
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The prose lives of Venantius Fortunatus: Hagiography, lay piety and pastoral care in sixth-century Gaul
This study uses the prose hagiography of the poet Venantius Fortunatus (c.530-600/609 CE) to examine the relationship between hagiographical narrative and pastoral care in the early Merovingian kingdoms. Consisting of the lives of six bishops and the ascetic Queen Radegund, this body of work has …
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Agency, Households, and the Practice of Li (Social and Ritual Protocols): Paper-Offerings in Rural Shandong, North China
A common sight at Chinese funerals is the presence of vibrantly coloured and elaborately designed paper-offerings used as spiritual gifts to gods, ancestors, and ghosts, in funerals and religious ceremonies. The ubiquity and continuity of this practice in China suggests that the use of …
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Bodies of Parchment: Representing the Passion and Reading Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
… literary or theological trends of mysticism and popular religion. I argue, however, that this metaphor and the texts containing it can be read productively through the lenses of manuscript studies and book history. Building upon the work of D. F. McKenzie, Roger Chartier, and Alexandra Gillespie, …