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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Study of Religions"”.
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Fluidity between ethno-religious and national identifications: a study of identity and ethics in Mauritius
Mauritius, an island with a population of nearly 1.3 million, is composed essentially of different local diasporas with numerous religious backgrounds. After more than three centuries of active cohabitation, a cosmopolitan and democratic nation is emerging. One of the traits of the island is the …
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
This study explores the contemporary revival of the once widely practiced Irish funerary lament tradition known as keening (from the Irish caoineadh, meaning "to cry"). Keening has declined as a funerary practice since the early twentieth century but is now being reimagined in contemporary Ireland …
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Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation
This thesis provides the first narrative of a history of Buddhism in South Africa. In the absence of any coherent analysis, it thus seeks to expose an historical lacuna in the study of religions in the region and to redress an academic aphasia that appears preeminent in recent "authoritative" …
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Hidden Galleries, Silenced Communities: homegrown religious communities and the secret police in 20th century Romania
… persecution by engaging in conscious acts of resistance. The creation of alternative narratives by these religious communities, narratives in which they critiqued and contradicted the established order, as well as the production of various objects and materials, such as icons, photographs, …