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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Spirit-world"”.
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A Christian perspective of the world of spirits : a trans-ethnic examination
The existence of a ' spirit world' is acknowledged by many world religions such as Christianity, Hinduism and African Traditional Religion. Of particular interest to religionists is the personal and corporate response to such a world. A proper understanding and relationship to the spirit world …
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"Oberon's Henchman; Or The Legend of The Three Sisters" by Matthew Gregory Lewis: A Critical Edition
… material which redefines the nature of the spirit world on his own terms. In addition to this background and critical information, this edition provides tools for the reader's comprehension and analysis of the poem: a character guide, synopses presented both chronologically and in order of …
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Book of Birds
… developed stories and music about the natural world around them. In this piece, Book of Birds, I am adding to this vast repertoire of folk stories with some of my own design, focusing on select bird species. Every movement focuses on a bird who serves as a spiritual guide for the listener as …
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To Do as Said and Written: Excavated Manuals and the Performance of Medicine and Spirit Power in Early China
… as medicine and people's engagement with the spirit world were inseparable. While there has been much research into the early Chinese medical and divinatory landscape, the materialistic and textual features of excavated manuals are often overlooked. These manuscripts are archaeological …
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The Ogbanje in Little Bee by Chris Cleave
… a literary representation of the Nigerian spirit-child for the purpose of political and post-colonial examination. Cleave's intentions are revealed through a full study of this traditional Nigerian concept. The Nigerian spirit-child, known as the ogbanje in the lgbo language and the abiku …
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The role of seals in coastal hunter-gatherer lifeways at Robberg, South Africa
… in Arctic ethnography. Seals were also of spiritual significance, possibly in aiding transitions from the material into the spirit world.
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A Missiological Study of the Phenomenon of Dual Allegiance in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
… members of other traditional societies of the world who still hold to a supernaturalistic and spiritualistic worldview visit diviners, shamans, spiritualistic herbalists, and the traditional medicine men and women who use enchantments, divination, charms, invocation of the spirit world, etc. …
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Formulaic discourse patterning in mōteatea
… a particular outcome, such as entry into the spirit world or vengeance for death and/ or humiliation.
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Magic and the supernatural in eighteenth-century Wales: the world of the Rev. Edmund Jones (1702-1793)
… least of which is his writing on apparitions, spirits, fairies, and magic in his Geographical, Historical, and Religious Account of the Parish of Aberystruth (1779) and Relation of Apparitions of Spirits in the Principality of Wales (1780). <br/><br/>These works were not merely written for an …