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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Profane"”.
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Sacred + Profane
… providing a place where the most sacred and the profane meet.
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A wall between the sacred and the profane
The city of Blacksburg, Virginia, has moved its boundaries farther and farther west of U.S.460. Though a large amount of commercial and residential architecture has accompanied this growth, there has been no sacred architecture to complement any of this secular construction. With this in mind, a …
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The Sacred in the Profane: Understanding Andy Warhol's Relationship with the Visual Image
For Andy Warhol (1928-1987), images meant for commercial advertisement, tabloid publication, and entertainment were not merely meaningless reflections of a commodity and media-obsessed world -- they were sacred. In 1986, the Pop artist based the last major series of his career on a reproduction of …
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An Embassy for Somalia; Traversing the Boundary Between the Sacred and the Profane
… the dualities of the Islamic faith and the profane environment. In the faith one must follow a path, whether physical or spiritual in order to find true enlightenment. By allowing the path of the thesis be the guide, the various elements of approach, entry, courtyard, garden and sacred …
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The Idealised and the Profane Nun: The Image of the Nun at the Fin-de-Siècle and into the 1930s.
This thesis examines the representation of nuns from the Fin-de-Siècle into the 1930s, in the popular medium of postcards, in art during the Modernist period, and throughout the early development of film. The thesis demonstrates how secularisation, rapid technological development, and political …
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A study of Britten's unaccompanied choral cycles: A Boy Was Born (1933), A.M.D.G. (1939), The Five Flower Songs (1951), Sacred and Profane (1975)
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Evangelical Christian healing: an ethnographic study of identity in ‘Healing on the streets’ of Birmingham, UK.
Emilé Durkheim’s Sacred and Profane dichotomy is often dismissed by those who claim that it cannot be found in a modern-day context. I demonstrate why this assumption is false, by exploring what happens at the boundary between sacred and profane during the activities of ‘Healing on the Streets’; a …
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Sensing the Threshold
The sacred and the profane: a dichotomy that can only exist through the thresholds within. In a world that's drowning in the profane, we yearn for the ephemeral, in which our mind, body, and soul emerge out of the mundanity of day-to-day life, and into something beyond. We search for the art, seek …
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A place in the city to celebrate the cycles of nature
… back to our souls and doorways out of the profane and into the sacred. Statement of Intent Our cities, in their present state, can be seen to correspond to the mythical model of chaos: the condition of undifferentiated formless modality. Through an act of will, we can recreate the center …
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Most Alive, Most Dead
… new relationships between the sacred and profane
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Marriage as unifying theme in the early modern Spanish religious drama.
… Golden Age as a unifier of the sacred and profane elements of the human condition. In doing so, I will propose that the unifying role of marriage can be best appreciated when viewed through a non-competitive, or teleological, understanding of the relationship between divinity and humanity. …
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L'exploration et la représentation du sacré dans les oeuvres de Sabine Sicaud et de Minou Drouet
… (Jung, Perrot). Plutôt que d’envisager le temps profane et les locutrices dans un rapport d’altérité absolue et irréconciliable avec le sacré, nous postulons que l’œuvre est divine non par sa nature intrinsèque, mais par son processus de fabrication. En présentant la dimension sacrée comme un …
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L'exploration et la représentation du sacré dans les oeuvres de Sabine Sicaud et de Minou Drouet
… (Jung, Perrot). Plutôt que d’envisager le temps profane et les locutrices dans un rapport d’altérité absolue et irréconciliable avec le sacré, nous postulons que l’œuvre est divine non par sa nature intrinsèque, mais par son processus de fabrication. En présentant la dimension sacrée comme un …
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The status of love in philosophy : an examination of the role of love (eros) in the work (or works) of selected French thinkers
… eros as the ‘equivocal par excellence’; a profane relation with the radical alterity of the feminine. Eros, for Levinas, inevitably lapses back to the economy of the same, and hence he looks to paternal fecundity to understand a relation with alterity untainted by erotic sensuality. …
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Chain reaction: The tragedy of atomic governance
… and capital resulted in the most profound, and profane, achievement in modern history--the atom bomb--but the strategies that empowered its development caused inestimable suffering in peacetime America. Discrete practices of secrecy, media manipulation, and the devaluation of scientific opinion …
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Witchcraft, rebellion, and misrule : a study of Shakespeare's first tetralogy
… end result being the apotheosis of the profane.
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[Urban] Monastery
… way of living and the other to engage with its profane surrounding. The two most important questions are: how does a monastery represent itself to a city; and how does a city represent itself from within a monastery.
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The Influence of the Benedictines in the Development of Education
The student of education or of history, either profane or ecclesiastical, can hardly pass over the contributions that the Benedictine Order has made to civilization. Still, despite the fact that the Order holds precedence in Western Monasticism, and can boast of fourteen centuries, rich in …
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La langue comme véhicule identitaire: analyse linguistique du brayonnaire (Madawaska, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada)
… (Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada) en 2014. Ce lexique profane, composé de 1 000 mots et expressions répertoriées, présente comme distinctif et représentatif une identité régionale spécifique et revendiquée. Envisagé comme « un système linguistique pensé comme ayant des frontières » (Hendschel, 2002 : …
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