La etnología chiriguano de Alfred Métraux by Federico Bossert, Diego Villar

“…We pursue our analysis across diverse aspects of Métraux’s work, including: his treatment of religion and prophetism among the Tupinamba; his participation in the pioneer project that created the Ethnology Institute in Tucuman; the manifestation of ideology, inherited prejudice and esthetic values in his gathering of material culture collections; the singularities of Métraux’s fieldwork and its impact on his relationship with the Chiriguano; his thesis that Chiriguano pottery reflected particular mixtures of Andean, Chaco and Amazonian influences; and, finally, the significant link he found between mythic symbolism and the feminine universe.…”
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An Aesthetic Visualization of Ritual Ordering among the Yoruba Drummer: A Medium of Life Celebration by Olusegun Adebolu Oladosu

“… The gatherings among Yoruba people depicting religion, social or political values are usually staged with drumming. …”
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Musawah Movement’s Activism for Women’s Rights as Strengthening the Trend of Islamic Feminism by Żaklina Dworska

“…This paper situates Islamic feminism and the activities of Musawah, an NGO focused on reinterpreting Islam, promoting approaches that address contemporary challenges to gender equality and debates about the role of religion within the context of Muslim family law. The critical approach of Islamic feminism is to resist the abuse of religious interpretation to maintain patriarchal structures while rejecting Western and secularized understandings of human rights. …”
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The Aryans and the Ancient System of Caste by Marianne Keppens

“…More precisely scholars have linked the origin of the caste system to the invasion of a Sanskrit speaking people, the Aryans, who are said to have imposed their language, religion and social structure on an indigenous population called the Dravidians. …”
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A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF GOD IN J.S. MBITI’S THEOLOGY by Y Han, Jaco Beyers

“…Mbiti regards African Traditional Religion(s) (ATR(s)) as monotheism and as a praeparatio evangelica, and maintains that the Christian God is the same as the God worshipped in ATR(s). …”
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Jogos, sociabilidade e conflito no Brasil by Édison Gastaldo, Everardo Rocha, Adriana Braga

“…To him, poetry, law, war, music, religion and everything we regard as serious, sacred and respectful derive at some level from ancient sacred games, and still keep their elementary features. …”
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Women on leadership? Perspectives from postgraduate theology students through the lenses of social identity by I. A. Nell

“… South Africa has experienced a long history of patriarchal leadership in the spheres of politics, economics and culture as well as in the sphere of religion, in particular. Many factors influence the current state of religious leadership and the accompanying identity formation. …”
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Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu by P.G.J. Meiring

“…The TRC operated within the mandates given to it by the South African parliament, but Tutu with his theological background, strong views, and dynamic personality put his own stamp on the truth and reconciliation process in South Africa. The role of religion in establishing truth and working towards justice, forgiveness, and reconciliation was controversial, but for the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, it was inconceivable to embark on the journey of reconciliation without faith in Jesus Christ, the ultimate Reconciler. …”
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Substitution for Substitution in Measure for Measure by Anton Schütz, Chantal Schütz

“…Law appears together with religion and politics as one combined powerful normative order. …”
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Fragments of Lost Origins by Pekka Tuominen

“…In contesting historical understandings, the ancestral Central Asian Turkic civilizations, the imperial history of the Ottoman Sultans, and the birth of the Turkish Republic are seen as a series of ruptures with complex definitions of authenticity and foreignness, especially in relation to religion and ethnicity. The aim of the study is to show how different historically constructed frameworks of appropriate practices and norms are associated with urban egalitarian spaces and traditional neighbourhoods and how Istanbulites cross boundaries between them. …”
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Water Symbolism in Yorùbá Folklore and Culture1 by George Olusola Ajibade

“…Water is a relevant and a significant variable that is also germane to the understanding of Yorùbá peoples’ identity, culture and religion. Hence, this ethnographical and literary study examines the image of water in Yorùbá cosmology using folklore (oral texts) of the people as paradigms. …”
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El papel de los afectos en el pensamiento político de Spinoza by Vicente Serrano

“…Se analizan los más tradicionales aspectos vinculados a la teoría política spinozista, la teoría del contrato y la crítica de la religión, en estrecha relación con la Ética y con el tratamiento de las relaciones entre afectos e imaginación, que se considera como el núcleo de su pensamiento político. …”
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MAIK’s Impact on The Indigenous Community in Kelantan State: Analysis in Terms of Welfare and Humanity by Muhammad Solihin bin Abd Razak, Nawi@Mohamad Nawi Bin Ismail

“…This article aims to highlight the welfare and humanitarian activities undertaken by the Council of Islamic Religion and Malay Customs of Kelantan (MAIK) in support of the indigenous community in Kelantan. …”
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L’égalité en matière d’héritage. Jeunes et savoir commun au Maroc by Merieme Yafout

“…Moreover, the knowledge that these young people express is also linked to socio-cultural assumption that they manifest as spontaneous discourse, accessible and clear on male / female relations, on family, on the division of social roles, on the place of religion in society. It is a knowleldge organically linked to everyday life which guides the actions and helps to understand the meaning that people give to their actions.…”
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Religiöse Spuren im Alltag by Matthias Werner

“…Being able to decode the occurring transformations of religion within these daily life phenomena is the prerequisite for being able to make an informed decision about the underlying concepts and religious ideas.  …”
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Eunug in die antieke Nabye Ooste by M. Nel

“…It is argued that the Hebrew word, syrs, refers to a castrated man, and that, in biblical usage, it refers to a castrated man in terms of Israel’s religion (Deut. 23:1; Is. 56:3). The term is used in a different sense when it refers to a foreign person, i.e. a person in an official capacity in a king’s court (as in Gen. 37), or a military commander (as in 1 Kings 22:9; 2 Kings 8:7; 23:12; 25;19; Jer. 52:25). …”
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FREEDOM OF CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE IMAGINATION. MAN AND HIS TIME by A. E. Razumov

“…We live to a large extent in imaginary worlds, and they appear to us more actual than their real-life prototypes. Religion, art and science try to tackle this problem, and in each case an attention is being focused, respectively, on a different aspect of being. …”
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Intégration politique des partis islamistes et processus de « spécialisation » : perspective comparée Tunisie-Maroc by Anca Munteanu

“…The analysis shows that in the two studied cases the «specialisation» does not lead to an effective separation between partisan action and social and preaching activity and does not eliminate the porosity of the limits between politics and religion.…”
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Deux questions à propos de l’implication mutuelle de l’esprit critique et de la laïcité dans l’appréhension républicaine de l’éducation morale et civique by Roger Monjo

“…Among those prerequisites the traditional oppositions between belief and knowledge, faith and rationality, religion and science will be put into relief.…”
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2003 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination by Leo C. Polopolus, Michael T. Olexa, Fritz Roka, Carol Fountain

“…That is, the various federal programs discussed in this paper require that employers hire all workers who are otherwise qualified without regard to race, color, religion, gender, citizenship, national origin, age, or disability.  …”
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