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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"RITUALS OF THE"”.
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Religious teaching and rituals of the mutima church in Kasama district, Zambia
This study investigated the religious teachings and rituals of the Mutima Church of Zambia’s Kasama district. The study was necessitated by the knowledge gap on the religious practices and rituals of the Mutima Church. Studies that have been conducted by other scholars focused on the religious life …
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Religious teaching and rituals of the mutima church in Kasama district, Zambia
This study investigated the religious teachings and rituals of the Mutima Church of Zambia’s Kasama district. The study was necessitated by the knowledge gap on the religious practices and rituals of the Mutima Church. Studies that have been conducted by other scholars focused on the religious life …
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Rituals of the enchanted world: Noh theater and religion in medieval Japan
This study explores of the religious underpinnings of medieval Noh theater and its operating as a form of ritual. As a multifaceted performance art and genre of literature, Noh is understood as having rich and diverse religious influences, but is often studied as a predominantly artistic and …
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Training of observers in risk rituals of the Manasa sect of Hinduism and serpent handling sects of Appalachia
… observer attitudes. Any ritual action that has the potential for injury or death, will be coined a religious risk ritual (RR). Observers will examine examples of video from the Manasa Hindu tradition in India and the Pentecostal and Holiness Serpent Handling traditions (SHS) of the southern …
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With(in) : three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life
… people in unprecedented ways. Crises such as the 2020 pandemic proved that the world is a single organism and no issue is only a local issue. If social and technological trends continue toward increased globalization, people of different cultures must find new ways to better understand the …
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Atotô obaluayê ajuberu: um olhar semiológico sobre a indumentária de obaluayê
Analyse the costumes worn by the deity Obaluaiyê in the Rituals of the Candomblé of Yoruba tradition or Ketu Candomblé. I propose a semiological regard on the costumes worn in Candomblé, through a reading of the signs and symbols that are presents in this deity and are conveyed by him. There is a …
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A wine estate on Keuka Lake: private teaching and public touring
This thesis proposes a large wine estate on the shores of one of New York’s Finger Lakes. The estate’s prominent location on Bluff Point demands an architecture that reinforces the vineyard’s highly visible regional presence. Not only a winery, this estate includes a teaching center for …
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ΤΟ ΝΕΡΟ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΑΙΜΑ ΣΤΙΣ ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΑΚΕΣ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΟΡΩΜΑΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΟΧΗΣ
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WATER AND BLOOD WAS IMPORTANT FOR THE RITES OF THE MYSTERY CULTS OF THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD. THEIR IMPORTANCE IS EVIDENT NOT ONLY IN THE MYSTERY CULTS BUT ALSO IN THE RITES OF THE FORMAL GRAECO-ROMAN RELIGION. THEIR PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IF WE TAKE INTO …
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Faith embodied: A comparative analysis of the body’s connection to religion through ritual in the Hindu and Christian context
… on comparative religion is compelled to explore the body. The body is the site of communication and experience. This paper seeks to examine the body in context of identity and religion. By challenging traditional assumptions of dualism and religious dismissal of embodied reality, scholars can …
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The Life And Songwriting Of Vic Chesnutt
This thesis is an exploration of the life and music of Vic Chesnutt, and it accompanies a documentary film. Both components feature interview excerpts from over 30 hours of film footage with Chesnutt, as interspersed with archival documents of his life, along with dozens of interviews with his …
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Sacred Flame: 100 Years Later Still Bringing Communities Together
The Olympic torch relay, as the essential bond between the ancient and the modern Olympic Games and the symbol of Olympism, serves as the prelude to the Olympic Games and conveys a message of peace, goodwill and friendship along its route. Even though the torch relay is one of the most essential …
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M.I.celium mexicanus: Rejecting Modernity through Zapotec Futurism
… architects and humans to consider transforming their relationship to the Earth’s critical zone through reconciliation with mushrooms to cultivate fungal allyship. The thesis examines and reimagines a future of building that drives towards the biological vs. that which is mineralized and …
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Boeotian Kabeiric ware: the significance of the ceramic offerings at the Theban Kabeirion in Boeotia
This study presents a re-evaluation of the ceramic material from the sanctuary of the Kabeiroi at Thebes in Boeotia. The lack of relevant literary evidence necessitates a reliance on the archaeology as the primary means of interpretation. In particular the archaeological context and iconography of …
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Pauline Christ-Groups and Private Dionysian Associations : Mythical Narratives and Communal Rituals as Building Blocks of Social Identity
This doctoral dissertation examines the roles of mythical narratives and religious rituals in the identity formation process of Pauline Christ-groups and Greco-Roman private religious associations. The main sources used in this work are Paul’s letters and inscriptions that refer to private …
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The Making of a Sufi Order Between Heresy and Legitimacy: Bayrami-Malāmis in the Ottoman Empire
… currents with transformative ideals were part of the Sufi religious identity during the late medieval Islamic period. This dissertation tries to make sense of this phenomenon by focusing on the historical evolution of the Bayrami-Malāmi Sufi order within the Ottoman Empire. The scope of the …
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Hybridity, Style and Identity, the Court Art and Architecture of Lucknow 1770-1850
Lucknow, the capital city of present day Uttar Pradesh, and previously of the Kingdom of Oudh, was the site of an extraordinary cultural and artistic milieu in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Oudh was an semi-independent state within the declining mughal empire, and close …
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A Comparative Study of the Concept of Atonement in the Aboakyer Festival of the Effutu Tribe in Ghana and the Yom Kippur Festival of the Old Testament: Implications for Adventist Mission Among the Effutu
<p>Statement of Problem</p> <p>History records that Christian missions have operated in Winneba since 1865 with various approaches being used to share the gospel with the Effutu. Though there have been successes, allegiance of the Effutu to their tribal gods, manifested especially during the …
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THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (RCCG), NIGERIA. LOCAL IDENTITIES AND GLOBAL PROCESSES IN AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM
This study documents the history and growth of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). The RCCG is a pentecostal church in Nigeria, established in 1952, but was little known until the 1990s when it came into national prominence. It was founded by Josiah Akindayomi who was converted form Yoruba …
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Performing cultural identities and transnational ‘imaginaries’: fashion and beauty practices as diasporic spaces among young London Congolese
This thesis critically examines a range of transnational fashion and beauty practices as narrative spaces employed by young London Congolese to embody their individual and collective racial, ethnic and gender identities. It investigates how they re-think and narrate their cultural heritage through …
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