What <i>Does</i> Matter?: Idols and Icons in the Nenets Tundra by Laur Vallikivi

“…Missionaries rely simultaneously on the ‘modern’ ideology of signification and the ‘non-modern’ magic of the material. They argue that idols, which are ‘nothing’ according to the scriptures, dangerously bind the ‘pagans’’ minds. …”
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"On Being Idolized" : construction d’une identité américaine à travers quelques poèmes de Robert Frost by Candice Lemaire

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THE PHENOMENON OF “SIMULACRUM” IN THE WORKS OF TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS by Mariia A. Oleshchenko

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Rethinking Representation and Animation by Erik Solfeldt, Anna Naglaya

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கொங்கு நாட்டின் இராசிபுர வட்டார சிறுதெய்வங்களும் வழிபாட்டு முறைகளும் / Deities and Worshipping Methods in the Rasipuram Region of Kongu Nadu... by செ. தனபால் / S. Dhanapal

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CAHİLİYYE DÖNEMİNDE PUTLAR VE PUTÇULUK Vahyin nüzul Zemininin Aydınlatılmasına Bir Katkı by Orhan Atalay

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Empowering church leaders for service in Africa: Situational Holistic Pastoral Ministry paradigm by Rabson Hove

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Influence of University Education on Changes in Students’ Value Orientations by Z. V. Puzanova, Т. I. Larina

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Cahiliye Arabı bir peygamber bekliyor muydu? Âtıl Tanrı/Deus Otiosus bağlamında cahiliye dönemi peygamber algısı by Mehmet Alıcı

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Teaching information seeking by Louise Limberg, Olof Sundin

“…<br><b>Analysis.</b> The IDOL project adopted a phenomenographic approach with the purpose of describing patterns of variation in experiences. …”
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The Medical Life of Henry Norman Bethune by Jean Deslauriers, Denis Goulet

“…In the People’s Republic of China, he is idolized and remains the only foreigner to ever become a national hero.…”
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Effect of Victories and Defeats on the Attitude of Soccer Fans: a Study Concerning Pitchman, Involvement and Fanaticism by Fernando A. Fleury, Vitor Koki da Costa Nogami, José Afonso Mazzon, Andres Rodriguez Veloso

“…This paper aims to analyze the attitude of soccer fans after the outcome of matches under the influence of a pitchman (celebrities and idols), involvement and fanaticism. The literature was supported by the concepts of happiness and attitude applied to sports, interacting with the literature on the influence of the pitchman (studies 1 and 2), involvement (study 3) and fanaticism (study 4). …”
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Self-Effacing Barbie: The Ideal, the Real and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood by John Michael Corrigan, Justin Prystash

“…This metaphysical quandary is what propels the protagonists on a Buddhist-inspired quest for authentic selfhood, a selfhood characterized by both the effacement of the discrete self (the Buddhist concept of anatman) and the eclipse of monumentalized cultural and commercial idols, like Barbie, that organize and disseminate ideology.…”
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Hubungan antara Self Esteem dan Religiusitas terhadap Celebrity Worship pada deman K-Pop di Kalangan Remaja by Lutfiyatur Risqiya, Mochamad Widjanarko

“…This study is motivated by the increasing phenomenon of adolescents excessively idolizing K-POP boybands, influenced by several factors, including self-esteem and religiosity. …”
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JEREMIAH 51:15-19 (MT): by M D Terblanche

“…By giving the impression of being a deliberate quotation of 10:12-16, 51:15-19 takes the reader back to 10:1-16, a composition in which the contrast between the idols of the nations and YHWH is emphasized. YHWH has the power to execute his plan to destroy Babylon. 51:15-19 did, however, attain a distinct identity through its close connections with the oracles against Babylon. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Sorrow in Shakespeare’s Juliet and Homer’s Andromache by Sanjukta Chakraborty, Varun Gulati, Deepali Sharma

“…However, both these characters’ reactions toward their sorrows are what set them apart from one another; while one woman is idolized as the quintessential pinnacle of womanhood for all generations, the other is immortalized as the rebellious protagonist of a Shakespearean Romantic tragedy. …”
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Can’t Help Lovin’:David Chidester’s Pop Culture Colonialism by Kathryn Lofton

“…West and Smith offer an opportunity to argue the connection between these two strands of scholarly observance, showing the fractal effects of colonialism in Africa on the preferences of pop culture consumption in America.The attraction to West’s unlikability is the other side of the easy adorationfor Jordan Smith: like those colonists who gave religion to those colonized subjects they dominated, pop consumers refuse to admit their intimate and needful connection to those idols who resist theircontrol. Although organized by particular instances, this article seeks to encourage those in pop culture studies to see the erotic work of dislike; it seeks to encourage those in religious studies to see how pop subjects carryforward the classificatory imprints of colonial frontiers …”
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The Depersonalized as Vanishing Hero and Heroine in Yorùbá Moral Placards by Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi

“…Ọjọ́ a bá kú là ń dère, èèyàn ò sunwọ̀n láàyè (It is on the day one dies that one becomes an idol; no one is appreciated when alive). The paper argues that in the imagination, reality, and social constructions of the Yorùbá, desirable existence would make the dead, and not a living person, a deity, hero or heroine. …”
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Moloch en expansion by Agnès Bouvier

“…What was scattered is now put together, what was hidden now comes out: “All the temples at the same time” reopen in order to celebrate the “Supreme Baal”, and even things that have become meaningless to everyone gather round Moloch: « forgotten idols reappeared ». Although forgotten, they are still present.…”
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Machine-Vision-Based Enhanced Deep Genetic Algorithm for Robot Action Analysis by Guifeng Wang, Lu-ming Zhang, Yichuan Sheng

“…The rank method first preprocesses the part copies, then uses the Sift feature twin similarity notification algorithm to filter the part idols, and finally uses in-law deformation to place the target parts. …”
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