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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"rosary"”.
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Interpreting the Vajra Rosary: Truth and Method Meets Wisdom and Method
… English translation of the Vajramala or Vajra Rosary, one of the explanatory Tantras of the Buddhist Guhyasamaja, or Secret Community, Tantric system, and a partial translation of Alamkakalasa's Commentary, sets out a novel hermeneutic method by which twenty-first century scholars of religion …
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The Work of the Sinsinawa Dominicans in Secondary Education West of the Missouri River
… Sisters of the Congregation of the Most Holy Rosary, better known as the Sinsinawa Dominicans. It is the author's hope that the study will contribute in some small way to a more comprehensive study of the Catholic schools of the West and that it will enlist interest in their problems and a …
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Grieving (and) Weaving (and) Spreading (and) Becoming
… glass window, an enclosed corner, your mother’s rosary, a childhood bedroom - give way to the psychological investigations of the self. In this thesis paper, Grieving (and) Weaving (and) Spreading (and) Becoming, I will explore my practice of subverting and incorporating found images, video, …
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Framing Identity: Repudiating the Ideal in Chicana Literature
… sheltered beneath her shawl of black… Her rosary she prays and fingers endlessly” represent a culturally idealized framing of womanhood which draws heavily from traditional religious and cultural archetypes (Gonzalez 111-273). Chicanas, having a history of revolutionary action, recognized …
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Ancestral Analysis of the French Colonial Moran Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi
… One of these individuals was found with a rosary; the only grave good recovered which leads to the conclusion that slaves were more than likely being converted to Christianity. Thus, data gained from osteological observations, more recently developed analytical techniques, and presence of …
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Unravelling the Musical in Art: Matisse, his music and his textiles
… a single synoptic analysis of the Chapel of the Rosary, the artist’s self-proclaimed masterpiece and ‘total’ work of art. This thesis explores the expansive musical space created by the reduced visual form of textiles. Considered together for the first time, these enduring and inseparable …
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Architectural fusion and indigenous ideology in early colonial Mexico: a case study of Teposcolula, Oaxaca, 1535-1580, demonstrating cultural transmission and transformation through negotiation and consent in planning a new urban environment
… integration, by the friars in the use of the Rosary beads over the arches, and by the indigenous leaders in iconographic elements on the church, fusing and transforming pre-Columbian and Christian meaning. Chapter Five examines of the use of the disk frieze spanning over seven hundred years in …
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Preventive services use by Mexican and Mexican American mothers in a child's first six months of life
… candles, placing pictures of saints or a rosary in the child's room or bed, brushings with herbs and chamomile tea. No significant relationship was found between use of cultural health care traditions and acculturation. Study findings provide helpful information that can be used by …
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The Function of Landcape Description in Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
<p>In Nostromo, Conrad’s longest novel, the author develops a complex plot involving a number of personal stories, interrelated by their reference to the development of a silver mine near Sulaco, and by their connection with a series of political changes. He shifts his chronology from modern times …
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Hippocampal microcircuits for social memory specification
During social interactions, humans and social animals can distinguish not only familiar and novel conspecifics (social recognition) but also between multiple familiar individuals (social specification). Recent studies have implicated hippocampal sub-region dorsal CA2 (dCA2) in social recognition …
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The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Countess Urraca of Santa MarÃa de Cañas: A Powerful Aristocrat, Abbess, and Advocate
… and the Virgin by including the symbol of the rosary throughout the iconography of her tomb. Such a symbol represents her devotion to Mary as Queen of Heaven and simultaneously empowers Countess Urraca as an intercessor herself. All of these architectural and artistic commissions confirm that …