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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Pre-christian"”.
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The Beowulf Poet's Accommodation Of Pre-Christian Germanic Culture
… Beowulf poet's more accommodating perspective on pre-Christian Germanic culture, when examined in comparison to other, later Germanic authors of works such as Icelandic sagas and Danish pseudo-history. The primary components of Beowulf I address to argue for this point are the poet's incorporation …
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Pre-Christian Survivals in the Festivals, Rites, and Symbols of the Church
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. May 1909. Major: Sociology and Anthropology. 1 computer file (PDF); 74, iii pages.
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Pre-Christian Characters in Medieval Irish Literature: An Examination of Fástini Airt meic Cuind, De Suidigud Tellaig Temra, Aided Chonchobair and Aided Echach maic Maireda
… dissertation consists of an analysis of the representation of the pre-Christian protagonists of the four medieval Irish tales Fástini Airt meic Cuind, De Suidigud Tellaig Temra, Aided Chonchobair and Aided Echach maic Maireda. In examining the portrayal of pre-Christian characters, I have …
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Uses of Wodan : The development of his cult and of medieval literary responses to it
Scholars working on Germanic pre-christian religion have generally considered Wodan to have been a deity of considerable importance to most if not all Germanic tribes. This understanding is, however, based on a failure to approach the available evidence for Wodan within appropriate contemporary …
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Towards a Missiological Model for Worldview Transformation among Adherents to African Traditional Religion in Yorubaland
… of Nigeria are a century old, yet reversion to pre-Christian practices such as divination and sorcery are reported, especially during periods of personal crises. This study sought to understand the influence of the traditional worldview on the practices of divination and sorcery and to develop a …
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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
… General Assembly of Iceland voted to convert to Christianity. The basis for this decision was political rather than religious, as it was to prevent civil dissension. This factor influenced the subsequent impact of Christianity on Icelandic society, and made possible the survival of numerous pagan …
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Change and continuity in Angami Naga traditional morality: a critical appraisal with special reference to Kenyű, Mhosho, and Thenyi
… and concepts of morality and how contemporary Christians reconcile their understanding of traditional morality with Christian morality. This will be explored by looking at Angami kenyü and mhosho through which morality was prescribed in the pre-Christian Angami context. It sets out to examine …
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Saint Barbara: a Roman Catholic Church
… of the complex addresses Roman Catholic and pre-Christian legends, symbols, and signs. It transforms them based on our understandings of ourselves and our universe today. Saint Barbara is a Roman Catholic Church located on a suburban site in Chantilly, Virginia on the eastern coast of the …
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Baltic-Finns and Scandinavians : Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Early History of the Nordic Region
… altered ethnohistorical research on the early, pre-Christian history of the Nordic region. The case study of the Nordic region (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia) includes the discipline histories of Finno-Ugric studies, linguistics and the larger field of intellectual …
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From the Ground Up: Journeys Through the Leitrim Landscape
… to view alternative forms of knowledge past and present. In the physical act of journeying through the landscape, by boat and on foot, I have encountered evidence of a range of social structures linked to place including: ‘off-the-grid’ living, community education, political resistance, …
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Masks of the Dark Goddess in Arthurian Literature: Origin and Evolution of Morgan le Fay
… ancient Celtic traditions and tales that long preceded it. Such tales often feature perplexing and seemingly contradictory characters who drive complex plotlines and frequently challenge primary figures, greatly impacting how the overall story unfolds. A primary example of such a character is …
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The Communication of Beliefs: An Inquiry Into the Rhetoric of Collective Identity and the Origins and Uses of Normative Logic
… motivated by cultural changes underway in the pre-Christian Greek world. Next the dissertation examines some of the uses to which discourses about collective identity and normative logic have been put since ancient times, so as to give shape to the content of Western beliefs about humanity, our …
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O le Soga'imiti: An embodiment of God in the Samoan male body
… good and divine, on the other. If, according to Christian theology, humans are created in the image of God, how is it that the body is often ridiculed in Christian theology as sinful and evil? This study examines the pre-Christian concept Atua (God) and the current Christian concept God and how …
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Asatru in America: A New American Religion
… Movement reconstructing the practice of pre-Christian Norse and Germanic Pagan religion. It has been one of the least studied of the Pagan movements in America. In addition, Asatru has often been associated with far right or fascist political views and racist ideology, developing a …
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Die skrifbeskouing van die vroeë kerkvaders uit Afrika (veral Tertullianus en Augustinus) en hulle relevansie vir Suidelike-Afrika (Afrikaans)
… “isms.” The pluralism, post-modernism and post-Christian society of the 21st century, brings its own challenges. Words mean nothing and truth is relative. There are, however, unique resemblances with the pluralism, pre-modern and pre-Christian society of the patristic. From a …
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Seeking Christian enculturation among Vietnamese Evangelicals
… enculturated traits which show potential for Christian enculturation in the larger Vietnamese culture through the voices of primary sources (through qualitative research) of Evangelical Christian Vietnamese and the voices of those adhering to indigenous ancestral worship practice. Schreiter’s …
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The social and cultural value of the apple and the orchard in Victorian England
… significance to the Victorians than has been previously realised. This thesis brings together an investigation into the economic value of the apple crop and its associated goods and services, with an exploration of how the apple and the orchard were represented and received in cultural and …
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Buried identities: An osteological and archaeological analysis of burial variation and identity in Anglo-Saxon Norfolk
… changes in burial practices were visible. Previous research has tended to separate the cremation and inhumation rites. This research has shown that in Norfolk the use of the two rites may have been related and used to convey aspects of identity and / or social position, from a similar or …
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The Origins and Development of English Folk Plays
… mystery play from the time of the crusades, some pre- Christian fertility ritual, and primitive shamanism. All three proposals were based on over-general comparisons, and relied on the key assumption that a continuous history can be traced back from before modern plays to the relevant era. …
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The setting and practice of open-air judicial assemblies in medieval Scotland: a multidisciplinary study
… Scotland. Outdoor medieval assembly practices represent an ephemeral collective human activity crucial to the understanding of medieval society. A multidisciplinary approach which utilises place-name, historical and archaeological evidence is adopted. Representative case studies are investigated …
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