‘Messianic Fraternity’: Anticommunism in the General Conferences of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate by Carlos Piccone-Camere

“…It adopts a critical perspective to examine the construction of the “messianic fraternity” myth—an ideological narrative contrasting Christian ideals of community and redemption with Marxist principles of class struggle and revolution, which served as a central axis for the Church’s rejection of communism in Latin America. …”
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Voyages en Shangrila : le marché « in situ » des objets d’art primitif d’Himalaya by Gisèle Krauskopff

“…Between Buddhist transcendence and primordial shamanism, this myth of origin sketches a utopian landscape, mediated by art objects. …”
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Nature of Science as Portrayed in the Middle School Science and Technology Curriculum: The Case of Turkey by Kemal Izci

“…A conceptual analysis was used to achieve the aims of the study by focusing on aspects of NOS , namely: the empirical, tentative, inferential, creative, theory-laden, and social dimensions of NOS; myth of “The Scientific Method”; nature of theories and laws; and social and cultural embeddedness of science. …”
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Influence of Bilinguism on Socio-Cognitive Personality Development by I. V. Sokolova

“…Experimental research conducted in the recent years has broken the myth of negative influence of childhood bilinguism. …”
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Performing the virtual double by Amanda du Preez

“…Two instances of the online double are unpacked, namely the double as shadow and the double as a stand-in or alter-ego, which correspond significantly with Marshall McLuhan’s analysis of the Narcissus myth and technological use. McLuhan reveals the doubled nature of our technological engagement that leads to either self-amputation or self-amplification. …”
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The U.S. and the UK in the United Nations: The Impact of the Special Relationship (2001 – 2017) by A. O. Mamedova

“…-UK cooperation in the UN reveals its ambiguous nature, but it does not serve to debunk the myth of the special relationship. The cooperation is largely pragmatic.…”
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Physics identity of Asian identified US college students by Linda Zhang, Madison Swirtz, Kerstin Nordstrom

“…This may be due to their perceived overrepresentation, the “model minority” myth, or their treatment as monolithic. These misconceptions obscure the diversity among Asian(American) students. …”
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Les représentations filmiques de Marie Stuart– Une femme de pouvoir dans l’air du temps by Armel Dubois-Nayt

“…These cinematic representations are considered in the wider scope of Marian myth-making as it developed in the sixteenth century with the aim of showing that until recently cinema has merely harped on the tropes found in her early modern detractors and defenders. …”
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Do Akhbār Mulūk al-Andalus [Notícias dos Monarcas da Hispânia] à Crónica do Mouro Rasis by António Rei

“…A work and a myth, whose journey began in the 10th century, in the Califal Chancellery of Córdoba, during the reign of ‘Abd al-Raḥmān III, and whose contents and information are still valid today and giving rise to several and varied studies. …”
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In Search of Lost National Epic: Poem Kastītis ir Juraite by Auszra poet Andrius Vištelis by Ieva Kristinaitytė

“…The poem has not been analysed until now, although it is one of the earliest texts in Lithuanian about the myth of Jūratė and Kastytis. The poem can be considered as an attempt to create the missing Lithuanian national epic for the emerging modern Lithuanian national community. …”
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Tacit Racism Toward Roma Students: The Case of a Turkish Public School by Ozan Uştuk

“…While comprehending systemic challenges, the adherence of the teachers to the myth of meritocracy fosters cognitive dissonance, which results in a dismissive incomprehension of the realities of and occasional assignment of blame to Roma students. …”
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How to Attract Women in STEM and Help Them Become Successful: The Review of Practices of Overcoming Gender Stereotypes by N. G. Maloshonok, I. A. Shcheglova, K. A. Vilkova, M. O. Abramova

“…Despite the widespread “myth of gender equality” in Russia, this problem is also relevant for our country. …”
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Cannabis mythology: the process of shaping from experience in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand by Fareeda Jeh-oh, Attanan Tachopisalwong

“…This study uses Barthes’ theory of myth to analyze how cultural institutions—namely governmental, educational, healthcare, and media organizations—reshape the perception of cannabis to conform to changing ideologies. …”
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The Role of Education in Achieving the Right for Decent Human Life by A. G. Kislov, Y. M. Kropaneva

“…The authors made an attempt to reconcile the pathos of the human right adherents and the skeptics reducing the idea to the declarative unverifiable myth or ideology. The research output can be used both for goal-setting in educational sphere and normative legal acts development concerning education and human rights.…”
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Music videos as cultural artefacts of the eighties by Retha Van Niekerk

“…The connotative level or the level of representation includes television codes (non-filmic and filmic), narrative codes and intertextual codes The level of myth or the level of ideology includes stylistic or textual devices such as metaphors, allegories, fetishism, voyeurism and parody. …”
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The Renewal of the Twenty Years in Theater: Revisions Based on The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska from 2008 by Katarzyna Fazan

“…The mentioned stage production of the twenty-first century draw attention to the current of aesthetic-political engagement in Polish interwar theater, and inscribe this theme in the program of dismantling earlier theatrical hierarchies built on the concept of a national community united by Romantic myth. Despite the fact that Stanisława Przybyszewska was not part of the feminist movement, the renewal of the meanings and form of her drama can be linked today, firstly, to the appreciation of her as an important voice of a politically and socially conscious author, proposing Brechtian-style theater, and secondly, to the revision of the twentieth century seen anew as a moment of women’s attempt at breaking the masculocentric order of social life. …”
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La vie affective des objets. Sur quelques reliques de l’atelier d’Ingres by Clara Lespessailles

“…This participation in the construction of the artist’s myth is manifested in the singular fetishism attributed to the creative space and, ultimately, to the objects within it. …”
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The Lithuanianisation of Adam Mickiewicz by Viktorija Šeina

“…In this article, I explore two ways that Mickiewicz was Lithuanianised: through a myth surrounding his ethnic origins and by introducing distortions into Lithuanian translations of the poet’s works. …”
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The Roman catastrophe of 1527 in the Italian Wars, or Sacco di Roma: analysis of the historical interpretation of the event by several contemporaries by Pavlov Kirill Vladimirovich

“…The study analyses the perception of historical event contemporaries that represents a “perfect myth” from its accomplishment: the Roman catastrophe in the Italian Wars of 1527, or “Sack of Rome” (Sacco di Roma), when the troops of the Habsburg Empire occupied Rome and forced Pope Clement VII to flee the city. …”
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From the Small Screen to the Big Screen: The Super8's Distribution of Sandokan TV series by Nicole Braida

“…Sandokan’s Super8 circulation can be regarded as part of larger phenomenon of consumer culture, where reduction prints become a synecdoche to a larger cultural myth. …”
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