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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Syncretic"”.
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Syncretic Immersion: Tolkien’s Languages As History, Artifacts, And Meta-Narratives
… and physical lenses, culminating into a syncretically immersive experience. </p>
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A Syncretic Modernism: Articulations of Painting in Turkey (1910s-1940s)
… strove for synthesis but ultimately remained syncretic—a strategic amalgam of Turkey’s highly polyglot reality that refused to be smoothed into a synthetic whole.
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The Cretan Glance : The Syncretic Spirit in the Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis
The seven novels of Nikos Kazantzakis' great period of 1942-1956, i.e., Freedom or Death, Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Greek Passion, Saint Francis, The Fratricides, and the Report to Greco, are examined in order to make evident the spirit of synthesis in perceiving the chaos …
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Towards a 'MacIntyrean Turn' in Sociology: A Case-Study in Syncretic Disciplinary Development
As a discipline born out of the intertwining of traditions of philosophy, political economy, history, and more, sociology has always been an interdisciplinary area of academic research. Despite this, there is a particular interlocutor who is under-explored in contemporary sociology: Alasdair …
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Syncretic Narrative: Method for Navigation of Power and Resistance in War and Conflict
… bounds of space and time, grounded in a syncretically generated geopolitical place of the Middle East, interfacing with institutional global journalism. Practice-based research was conducted in order to further investigate the identified theoretical underpinnings in the production, …
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… the consultants’ language ideologies toward syncretic uses of Spanish and Quichua. Overall, 58% of the content words, 39% of the basic vocabulary, and 50% of the subject pronouns in the Salcedo corpus were derived from Spanish. When compared to Muysken’s description of highlander Quichua in …
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Syncretic and engaged Buddhist thought in early republican China: Tang Dayuan’s vision (1910-1930s)
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Syncretic beliefs and practices amongst Muslims in Lagos state Nigeria; with special reference to the Yoruba speaking people of Epe
… extent of the involvement of Yoruba Muslims in syncretic beliefs and practices in Nigeria using the Lagos State as a case study, with a view to bringing out the impact of Tawḥīd on them. In agreement with previous research, this study notes that there is a prevalence of religious syncretism …
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A critically-engaged syncretic language narrative of two building trades students and their families: developing identity-resonance for self-actualising minorities’ right to be, believe and belong.
… it. Understanding variants as translanguaged, syncretic analogical transfers and as resources for the transformation and empowerment of ‘Self’ advanced the notion of anastylosis, for redefining our national linguistic identity, by which we might progressively develop identity-resonance for …
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"The Splendours of Imagination." The Transformative and Regenerative Power of Myth in Soyinka's and Walcott's Theatre
… petrifying character of tradition and enter a syncretic dimension of creativity capable of engendering a new cultural ethos.
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Being Mandinga, Being Muslim: Transnational Debates on Personhood and Religious Identity in Guinea -Bissau and Portugal
… ""traditionalists""---those who practice a syncretic version of Islam---and those who uphold Islam as practiced in Saudi Arabia as a ""truer"" or ""purer"" path."
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Constituting Modern Matron: exploring role, identity and action in an English NHS Trust
… different identities which are mediated through ‘syncretic action’ whereby individuals act singularly and collectively upon elements of competing discourses to create uniqueness in role and identity reflective of the specific structural, socio-political and historical circumstances in which Modern …
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Orationes Regum Ac Potentia: Monarchical Oratory and Power in Shakespeare's Henriad
… scopes of formalism and New Historicism to a syncretic amalgamation aptly called “historical formalism,” in which the focus is on the formal elements of a literary work while also noting the context of the surrounding culture without making the anti-humanist assumption that a work can only be …
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Hummingbird oil she breast: Testimony and Resistance in Vincentian Redemption Songs
… cultures. Spirits in the Dark appropriates syncretic religious rites to redress the alienation of a modern queer Black Caribbean. Vincentian testimonies to the creation of agency out of the cultural shards of colonialism result.
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THE INTIMATE CRITIC: THE RELATIONSHIPS, LABOURS AND INHERITANCES OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE CRITICS IN ARCHIPELAGIC SOUTHEAST ASIA
… Indonesia, the Philippines), and how the syncretic practices of the archipelagic critic can offer us new insight into and possibilities for criticism. I identify how these critical intimacies are embodied through three avatars that draw from local theory-making and doing. Firstly, the …
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Sir William Jones and Representations of Hinduism in British Poetry, 1784-1812
… The study argues that Jones’ sympathetic and syncretic representations of Hinduism in his nine ‘Hymns’ to Hindu deities (1784-1789) influenced the use of Hinduism within the works of these later Romantic poets. It is interested in the way in which Blake, Southey, and Shelley use Hinduism, by …
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Murals and the Development of Merchant Activity at Chichen Itza
… network that created political alliances and syncretic art styles. Focusing on the mural tradition of Chichen Itza, this study proposes a chronological sequence for the wall paintings by examining their style, subject matter, and architectural setting. Analysis of the painted images …
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Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
… at work in producing the nature and identity of syncretic theatre. Between 1980 and 1996, the nature and identity of alternative theatre changed significantly. This thesis investigates these changes, movements, shifts, conflicts and appropriations and the context within which they took place.
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Building Cultural Bridges: American Women Missionaries in Korea 1885-1910
… and also shed light on the development of a syncretic Korean Christianity.
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'How can you go to a Church that killed so many Indians?' : Representations of Christianity in 20th century Native American novels
… Prosa, werden die Kategorien rejection, (syncretic) adaptation, and postmodern-ironic revision eingeführt, um die unterschiedlichen Darstellungsweisen zu beschreiben. Anhand der fünf Hauptbeispiele ist eine Entwicklung der zeitgenössischen indianischen Literatur zu beobachten, die sich von …
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