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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"cursing"”.
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Vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215
… theological role of divine vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215. The dissertation considers four case studies of primary material: the hagiographical and historical writings of the English Benedictines (Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Eadmer of …
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Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England
… within a larger economic context whereby cursing and maleficent acts in general might be read as a means of political protest against the political and economic destabilization of comrights. By reading cursing and prophecy as epistemological weaponry, the thesis establishes a theory of …
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The Social Significance of Curse Tablets in the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire
… this study focuses on the importance of cursing as a contextually embedded ritual within the everyday lives of people living in the Roman north-western provinces. To achieve this aim, the present study had examined curse tablets through the lens of a number of theoretical models and …
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The Aristocratic Body and the Memory Economy of Church Reform, 900-1300 C.E.
… bodily wounding and mutilation, and liturgical cursing. Centering the analysis on these sites of cultural activity allows close readings of the complex dialectic which develops around memory. Using memory as the central focus of the study allows insight into the ways in which the semi-literate …
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Examining the Implementation of School-Wide Positive Discipline Intervention and Its Impact on Teacher Beliefs, Values and Practices
… noncompliance, poor peer interactions, cursing, making fun of one another, grabbing, pushing and being of-task as common occurrences in their classrooms. Teachers are expected and required to manage student behavior through the implementation of a well designed classroom management plan. …
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Blurring the Gender Lines: Margaret of Anjou's use of Gender as Power in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy
… her in a position where the effeminate act of cursing is the only effective means of harm she can use to inflict pain upon her enemies. Margaret, throughout the plays, is unique as a female monarch in her use of gender bending as a strategy to survive and outlive those who have crossed her.</p>
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The influence of ancient near eastern vassal treaties on the seven prophetic messages in revelation.
… particularly the sanctions of blessing and cursing evident in OT rîb patterns. John’s messages are hybrid6 prophetic oraclesincorporating the covenant lawsuit7 message of the prophets, structured after the covenant schema found in the Torah. The treaty scheme was not some amorphous idea of …
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The Embodied Promise: How the Hebrew Covenants Correspond to the Corporal
… the story of the Nephilim, the story of Noah's cursing of Canaan, the stories the destructions of Babel and Sodom, the stories of Abraham passing off his wife as a sister, the stories of women rescuing Moses, the story of the failure of Saul, the story of Nathan's parable against David, and …
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The Beginning of the End: The Eschatology of Genesis
… tragedies in terms of the mythic destruction and cursing that threaten creation but never</p><p>extinguish the line of promise. The dynamic processes of Genesis' usage (its composition</p><p>stretching back to the pre-exilic period, and its reception stretching forward to the …
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Agents of Evil: Curse Accusations and Shamanic Retaliation in Post-Soviet Tuva (Siberia)
… white-collar workers. It would seem that even cursing has been privatised. The ethnographic body of the thesis consists of three consultations with one shaman. I focus on the interaction between shaman and client, and identify pervasive patterns of analogy between the misfortunes of each party. …
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Living in the navel of Waag: ritual traditions among the Daasanech of South West Ethiopia
“Living in the navel of Waag” offers a ideal typical description of the different ritual traditions among the Daasanech of South-West Ethiopia with special focus on the ways the body is modified. Ritual is seen as a means to induce wellbeing and to tackle misfortune. The dissertation starts with a …