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Showing 1 to 20 of 215 for “"devotion"”.
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Shirdi Sai Baba Online : devotion in cyberspace.
… of Shirdi Sai Baba communicate and express their devotion (bhakti) through the internet, a range of activity is explored. Alongside traditional websites, the use of social networking, online forums, collaborative blogs, websites devoted to online ritual, multimedia and live video feeds, are all …
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Appropriation and resistance in Philippine Marian devotion
… is a postcolonial study of Philippine Marian devotion using, among others, M. M. Bakhtin's theory of dialogism and Homi Bhabha's theories on ambivalence (the "simultaneous desire for and disavowal of a given object"), mimicry and hybridity. It is also a historical study of Philippine Marian …
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Velázquez: The Spanish Style and the Art of Devotion
… Diego Velázquez. The consequences of considering devotional practice and mystical experience in the analysis of Spanish painting in the<em> siglo de oro</em> yields new, more complete, and more intellectually satisfying readings of particular works. Without supplanting the long-established …
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Praying the Passion: Laypeople's Participation in Medieval Liturgy and Devotion
… re-examines the role of the laity in medieval devotions and argues that careful attention to manuscripts reveals multi-layered levels of understanding and approaches to doctrine and the liturgy across lay and religious communities. It investigates the inter-relationship of literary text and its …
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Staging Sodomy: Deviance and Devotion on the Early English Stage
This thesis is an examination of the multivalent category of sodomy in late medieval works of and about biblical drama: A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, the York Joseph's Trouble About Mary and the N-Town Passion plays. Because the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge invokes charges of sodomy in its attack …
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Teaching Through Devotion: The Poetics of Yaśaskara’s Devīstotra and Premodern Kashmir
… itself illustrates the close link between devotional literature and pedagogy in Sanskrit.
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Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England
<p>“Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England,” argues for the crucial role of literature in shaping, expanding, and contesting the limits of compassion in early seventeenth century England. Reading Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Donne’s Devotions Upon …
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Margery's Reading Communities: Literacy and Devotion in The Book of Margery Kempe
This paper examines Margery's interaction with literate culture in The Book of Margery Kempe. It argues that Margery shows an awareness of the way that Christian knowledge is contained within texts and disseminated to wider audiences. Margery presents herself as a saintly figure, a holy woman with …
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Korean Violinist Min Kim: His Devotion to and Achievements in Chamber Music
Western music in Korea has barely a one hundred-year history, and it developed particularly rapidly after the Korean War (1950-1953) as the economy began to grow. In the present day, many Koreans have been trained as professional musicians. Despite the individual successes of Korean musicians, …
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"She's an All-in-One Guru": Devotion to a 21st century Mystic
… and change within the tradition of guru-bhakti (devotion to the guru). Because Gurumaa embraces rhetoric of "female empowerment," and points to her own "enlightened" female body as evidence that women can and do reach the highest spiritual states, her leadership offers an ideal context in which …
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Devotion to St John the Baptist in England in the Middle Ages.
This study examines the cult of St John the Baptist in England during the period between the Norman Conquest and the Henrician Reformation. It seeks to identify the ways in which medieval men and women viewed the Baptist and to place this in the context of veneration for the universal, scriptural …
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The Portrait Potential Gender, Identity, and Devotion in Manuscript Owner Portraits, 1230–1320
… as ideological images that construct literate devotion in the Middle Ages as a feminine activity. The third chapter explores further the issues of gender and identity in manuscripts that juxtapose male and female owner figures. In representing distinct masculine and feminine modes of prayer …
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Marian Devotion Through Music, Lyric, and Miracle Narrative in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
… (r. 1252-1284), amidst an upsurge of Marian devotion and a simultaneous proliferation of vernacular poetry and monophonic music, all outgrowths of the twelfth century. This thesis shows not just that music, lyric, and narrative converge in the cantigas de miragro (miracle songs), but that it …
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"May I Again Taste the Sweets of Social Religion": The Ecclesiological Devotion of William Carey
… of Carey’s success as a missionary was his devotion to the local church. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of Carey’s ecclesiology and its significance in his life and ministry. Chapter 2 considers Carey’s ecclesiological context by examining Particular Baptist ecclesial thought and its …
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A Unity of Contraries: Dorothy Day and the 'No-Alibi' Rhetoric of Defiance and Devotion
… Day (1897-1980) as a Rhetoric of Defiance and Devotion and it is illustrated by selected metaphors associated with Martin Buber and M. M. Bakhtin. Concepts of conscience, community and the complexities associated with being authentically human are engaged within an interpretive journey of a …
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Translocating Devotion to Female Saints in England through Liturgical Prescription and Practice, c. 1330–1500
… ‘national’, or ‘universal’ saints. However, the devotion to saints in late medieval England often took forms that are not easily explained in such geographic or cultic terms. This was especially true in the celebration of female saints’ feasts in late medieval liturgy. In the fourteenth and …
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"Once Mistress of the World :" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
… as a cult center, an intervening ally, and a devotional adviser between 300-900 CE proved crucial in a coming-of-age period for the papacy, whose spiritual authority had begun to resonate from the Mediterranean northward as the vicar of St. Peter. My consideration of women through the lens of …
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Holy Blood, Holy Cross: Architecture and Devotion in the Parochial Complex of Rothenburg ob der Tauber
… interrelation of architecture, figural art, and devotional practice. Among the spaces of the parish church of St. Jakob, the neighboring charnel-house chapel of St. Michael, and the urban cemetery between unfolded an intricate thematic program whose leitmotif was a miracle-working blood relic. …
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The Model Prodigal: Jesuit School Plays and the Production of Devotion in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1611
… emphasized the benefits of sincere religious devotion, a goal important to the Society and to Tridentine Catholicism. The second chapter examines the prodigal figure's journey in Pedro Pablo de Acevedo's Comedia Caropo: Seville, 1565) and Comedia Filauto: Seville, 1565), Juan de Cigorondo's …
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Love in Separation: An exploration of longing in devotion (Viraha-Bhakti) in the Hindu and Christian faiths.
… study on the subject of viraha-bhakti, devotional love-in-separation. Although possessing distinctive characteristics, the longing for God in his divine absence that is encountered in Hinduism and Christianity corresponds closely with each other and forms an important devotional practice …
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