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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"pagan"”.
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Theodoret and the Greek Pagan Writers
… this thesis, entitled "Theodoret and the Greek Pagan Writers," has been to determine how much Theodoret, a Christian writer of the fourth and fifth centuries, knew about the Greek pagan writers in so far as one is able to judge by noting the writers referred to, the number of references made to …
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Discovering Border Crossings in Pagan Epic Literature
… crossings must begin with the early epics. Pagan stories of border crossings have a very different view of the themes than works written in a Christian environment. This work examines border crossings in the environment where the people actually believed an Otherworld existed as part of …
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Saint Augustine's Critical Judgment of the Pagan Writers
… Augustine’s attitude toward the Greek and Latin pagan writers. An effort has been made to record all of the direct quotations of the pagan authors used by Saint Augustine in the twenty-two books of his Be Civitate Dei. |I have undertaken to emphasize the fact that the number of times an author …
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Representations of the pagan afterlife in medieval Scandinavian literature
… to contain, pre-Christian myths, vestiges of a pagan belief-system, is quite large. As in all religions, the fate of the ‘soul’ after death is shown to be of primary concern to pagan Scandinavians. My dissertation is concerned with the way in which the afterlife, in its various forms, is …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… the late-Victorian period a revived form of paganism developed in response to an emerging kind of secularity. My first chapter engages post-secularism as a framework for understanding how paganism responds to this new sense of secularity, which I demonstrate formed alongside developments in …
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Defining Twin Cities Wicca: The Emergence of Wicca as a Polyaffiliated Pagan Movement
… of the literature associated Wicca and Paganism. Bibliographies and narratives are studied to determine the most influential authors and practitioners in the Wiccan and Pagan tradition. The history of Wicca from England to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the focus of this …
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Pagan History and Religion in the Scholarly World of Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714)
… in which early modern scholars treated ancient pagan history and religion in the last years of the seventeenth and first years of the eighteenth century. I hope that the specificity of the first will allow for a more fruitful way into the second. Traditionally, historiography has emphasised that …
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Why Aren't More Heathens Eco-Pagan Vegetarians? The Intersection Of Gender, Politics, And Spiritual Environmentalism
<p>Neo-Paganism, a nature-based new religious movement, provides a rich backdrop for the study of spiritual environmentalism. This ethnographic project analyzes the dynamic interconnectedness of neo-paganism and environmentalism, or "eco-paganism," and how Heathenry reframes the natural world using …
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Contested heritage: examining relations between contemporary Pagan groups and the archaeological and heritage professions in Britain
… of Britain’s ancient past and contemporary Pagan groups to whom such remains are sacred. It provides a description of contestation of sites and human corporeal remains followed by a detailed analysis of the reasons presented in the discourse of contestation and the underlying attitudes …
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Extending the Non-Contact Healing Paradigm to Explore Distant Mental Interaction Effects of Pagan Healing Spells
Paganism is a burgeoning belief system in the UK, which has received little attention from psychological researchers. Healing is a key aspect of modern Pagan practice, yet it too receives little attention from those investigating distance healing practices. Given the growth of Paganism in recent …
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An examination of religiosity, spirituality, and psychological well-being among Pagan women: a mixed method approach
… constitutes a preliminary inquiry into 246 Pagan women's definitions of religiosity and spirituality, as well as an initial examination of the relationship among religiosity, spirituality, and psychological well-being. A cluster analysis was conducted based on the Religious Commitment Index …
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Irish neo-paganism: worldview, ritual and identity
Neo-paganism is a vibrant, dynamic global movement, which has had a significant cultural impact. Neo-paganism is an umbrella term for a wide range of spiritual practices, often described as nature- or earth-based spirituality. There are different “paths” or spiritual traditions within this …
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"Porque pagan entonces quieren tener un robot, y nosotras de robot no tenemos nada": arreglos intersubjetivos tecno-sociales del trabajo doméstico mediado digitalmente
Este artículo analiza las relaciones intersubjetivas entre clientes y trabajadoras en dos plataformas digitales de trabajo doméstico en Bogotá, Colombia. Inspirado por los estudios sociales de ciencia y tecnología feministas, explora cómo se configuran mecanismos de control, auditoría y …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… of “fusion” which occurred in the Dark Ages as paganism was in decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, letters, and the …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… of “fusion” which occurred in the Dark Ages as paganism was in decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, letters, and the …
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Movement and Motion: Spatial Change in Roman Domestic Religion. Paganism to Christianity, 1st-5th centuries CE
… spaces related to religious practice from the pagan to Christian period. I argue that in their spatial negotiation of pre-existing pagan spaces, early Christian belief was influenced by these pagan spaces. A long process of reinterpreting domestic space created new spatial codes, to be …
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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
… and made possible the survival of numerous pagan practices and values. Contemporary literary sources, especially the Icelandic Family sagas, not only cover the conversion of Iceland, the ensuing conflicts and tensions between paganism and Christianity, and pagan survivals under Christianity, …
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