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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Reincarnation"”.
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The CFA Franc Zone: a modern reincarnation of a colonial relic
This study assesses the French Community of Africa, commonly known as the CFA Franc zone. This is a monetary union comprising 14 African countries in West and Central Africa. The purpose of the study is to examine the manner in which this monetary union affects the development of these 14 African …
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The Essence of Reincarnation and Consciousness as a Gateway into Teaching and Learning
… essence of ancestral knowledge from a belief in reincarnation and consciousness, as it relates to the lived experiences of diverse educational professionals, and its contribution to their growth and development. The study investigates the lived experiences of adult educators from four distinct …
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Mortality and regeneration: Bebelibe understandings of life after death.
… as many think they slow down and complicate reincarnation. For others, kɛbodikɛ and mtakimɛ have been dematerialised and spiritualised, primarily through the influence of Christianity. One outcome of this transformation is the quick separation of kɛbodikɛ and mtakimɛ from the physical body. …
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Absorbing the Worlds of Others: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Adapted Screenplays
… Elliott’s incarnational concept of adaptation to reincarnation in order to argue that adaptation and screenwriting are both continual, collaborative processes. Segments of Chapters 2 and 5 have been included in published articles and feature in the appendices: ‘A room with many views: Ruth Prawer …
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Adaptive Toldo systems T̳M̳
… framework on the basis of which to speculate its reincarnation within contemporary practice. Such framework provides the theoretical foundations and technological opportunities to reinvent the primitive Toldo as a commercial spin-off, which envisions its modernization in three steps. Firstly, a …
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The space between Beirut and the moon : the spatial Lebanese coming of age novel
… who is said to worship goats and believe in reincarnation) shape his own character. His experiences vary from the mundane family and school life, to near death experiences as he redefines the space within a turbulent and illusive city. In the critical thesis, my creative work is positioned as …
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An Envoy
<p>An Envoy explores the themes of divinity, reincarnation and consequence. The aesthetic purpose of An Envoy is to indulge in the concept of an imperfect group of Gods with their faulty behaviors affect their creations. An Envoy is written in two perspectives. The Envoy narrates the novel in …
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From Canal Boats to Canoes: The Transformation of the C&O Canal, 1938--1942
… in the Potomac River Valley. The second is the reincarnation of the first as a National Historical Park. The first is a busy, messy, and noisy landscape. The second serves as a refuge for the urban masses, and only faintly resembles its predecessor. This thesis seeks to understand how one …
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The entry of Orpheus into archaic Greek society.
… for the importation of exotic ideas such as reincarnation and metempsychosis and whether these myths expressed the concerns of a society increasingly preoccupied with the fate of the individual soul after death. Orpheus’ perceived otherness made him a liminal figure who crossed boundaries in …
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The Ogbanje in Little Bee by Chris Cleave
… is indeed related to the overall concept of reincarnation, but it differs in the sense that the child who is unduly linked to the spirit world cannot complete a normal life cycle, thereby challenging tribal fertility, one of the most fundamental principles of West African culture. The …
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Dynamics of kinship and the uncertainties of life: Spirit cults and healing management in northern Thailand
… among illness, kinship and personhood in reincarnation, healing, lineage recruitment, sacrifice, and spirit worship. In conclusion, it explores the mutual relationship between the two processes: kinship transformation and healing management, both of which depend crucially on power …
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Deep freeze : the social and musical impact of the I{u00F0}unn Society on the Icelandic r{u00ED}mur tradition
… while a thaw offers at least the chance of reincarnation into a renewed life.
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Deep freeze : the social and musical impact of the I{u00F0}unn Society on the Icelandic r{u00ED}mur tradition
… while a thaw offers at least the chance of reincarnation into a renewed life.
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In small rooms
… and over. I don't think these poems are about reincarnation, but perhaps they are about the many deaths and rebirths within a single human life, and about the human on an ecological scale, in which one human lifetime is just one start and end in a series of continuous starts and ends.
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Family ministry perceptions and practices in Hmong Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches: a multiple case study
… animism, shamanism, ancestral worship, and reincarnation. Children were religiously instructed through informal, oral, experiential, and intergenerational learning. The home was the central shrine for religious instruction via altars, offerings, sacrifices, and rituals. Fathers were the …
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William Butler Yeats' transformations of eastern religious concepts
… religious concepts such concepts as karma and reincarnation and asserts that the goal of the discipline of yoga is self-realization.Chapter 4 discusses the poems of Yeats' canon which have been analyzed critically in terms of Eastern religious concepts and have erroneously been considered to …
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P. Sphinx Teen
… her lineage to view and, with the suspicion of reincarnation, changing place with the main character, Patricia, who is, simultaneously, one and many.</p> <p>In researching the family story in relationship to historical events and figures associated with those events, I discovered an irregularity …
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Moksha--design of disposable objects for second uses as construction components
… scale implementation.Why? Will its contemporary reincarnation in plastic (HDPE) have any greater chances of success than the glass forerunner? These are some of the questions that the thesis looks at in the last chapter. As architects we are conditioned to seek ultimate proof of our ideas' …
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The politics of display: identity and state at the San Juan Print Biennial, 1970-1981
… (BSJ, 1970-2001) of Puerto Rico, and its reincarnation as the Poly/Graphic Triennial (2004 - Present). As the Caribbean’s first art biennial, the creation of the BSJ was not only innovative, but also a strategic, bold project on the part of its organizers in their attempt to insert Puerto …
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The influence of the theosophical movement on the revival of astrology in Great Britain and North America in the 20th century
… of the macrocosm and the microcosm, of karma and reincarnation, of planetary cycles, and of the psychology of the soul. In addition this dissertation identifies the Theosophical channels through which these ideas were transmitted, and awes how they came to be incorporated by the mainstream …
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