“When the Cock crows, the Devil Falls” – a Review of Christian Thought Concerning Birds in Selected Folk Tales by Agnieszka Tańczuk

“…I will also show the variety of references to the cult of Christian saints, the love of the land, and the nature that surrounds us. …”
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La propagande cachée sur les ondes de la BBC pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale : vers une héroïsation nationale by Cécile Vallée

“…Countless programmes were broadcast, which stressed the heroic virtues of British soldiers, of the Navy and of the R.A.F, or reminded the listeners of past heroes, the glorious history of Great Britain being systematically commemorated, thus exalting national pride daily. To the constant cult of the heroes of the Home Front (particularly of women) corresponded an equally constant denigration of the Nazi enemy. …”
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Ascetical and mystical experience in Chinese Buddhism by Dabetić Ilija

“…The oldest religious beliefs of the ancient China were characterized by personification of natural phenomena, cult of ancestors with a developed magical element and frequent practice of alchemical experimentation. …”
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Ansanus “the Baptizer” and the Problem of Siena’s Non-Existent Early Episcopacy (c. 1100–1600) by Carol A. Anderson

“…Though some Sienese humanists sought to identify the earliest bishops, no episcopal cult was ever established. Considering that the default for other major cities in Italy was to identify and venerate their early bishops, Ansanus’s transformation into “the Baptizer” presents a case study of how saints could be adapted in unconventional ways to fix a problematic civic past.…”
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O możliwości zredefiniowania niepowodzeń szkolnych. Rekonstrukcja zmiany myślenia studentek – przyszłych nauczycielek wczesnej edukacji by Grażyna Szyling

“…Identifying – as constructivists have done – school failures as the failures of the school, the respondents locate the sources of this phenomenon in the dominance of the traditional model of objectivist school, and in particular – in multiple symptoms of the cult of average grade and thoughtless realisation of the curriculum by teachers. …”
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Expressões retóricas do amor no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende by Geraldo Augusto Fernandes

“…The medieval humanists, in their cult of ancient civilization, transpose to the act of making poetry the same elements and concerns characteristic of past orators. …”
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Age-linked Groups in the Early Iron Age nomadic societies (preliminary results) by Berseneva Natalia A.

“…The correlation of age groups with other types of artifacts (cult objects, household items, horse harness or certain types of weapons/decorations), as well as with markers of high social status (prestigious things, labor-intensive structures) may be one of the further directions of research.…”
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RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS: THEORY AND PRACTICE ACTIVITIES by Vladislav L. Benin, Timur Z. Urazmetov

“…The scientific inconsistency of widespread concepts "sect", «totalitarian sect», and «a destructive cult» is proved. Authors note that the term "sect" is necessary to use as religious concept exclusively in the sphere of studying of Christianity history. …”
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Challenging “La Vie Bohème”: Community, Subculture, and Queer Temporality in Rent by Eleonora Sammartino

“…Rent (Chris Columbus, 2005), adapted from the 1996 cult stage musical by Jonathan Larson, is a paradigmatic example of how this representation of gender is interdependent with the remapping of the chronotopes of the genre to reflect this fluidity. …”
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Sacraliser le territoire américain : Mount Shasta, quand les dieux viennent instruire les humains by Bernadette Rigal-Cellard

“…Then, we look at a famous book Unveiled Mysteries, by Godfre Ray King, alias Guy Ballard, the founder of the I AM cult, who obviously got his inspiration from the first Shasta novel. …”
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Religious motives in the dastan “Idegey” by Valiullina F.M.

“…The work explores motives showing the attitude of Toktamysh Khan, Idegey, and Nuradyn to religion, and images associated with the cult of Islam such as Allah (Alla, Tengri), Ghazazil, angels, gurias, etc. …”
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THE CHORAL OUTLINE IN THE OPERA “ALEXANDRU LĂPUŞNEANU” BY GHEORGHE MUSTEA by Luminiţa GUŢANU

“…The composer has used elements of folkloric style in cult traditional musical forms, thus creating music pages of a strong national legitimacy. …”
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Goddess Worship and New Spirituality in the Postmodern World: a Brief Overview by T. V. Danylova

“…Identifying herself with the images of the Goddesses, a woman develops self-awareness and self-acceptance that contribute greatly to her reintegration with a wider spiritual reality. The cult of the Goddess finds practical application in women’s lives. …”
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Witchery as Tribal Primary Ethos: Negotiations and Resistance in Select Literary Representations by Saru Sachdeva, Rekha Rani

“…Central to these beliefs is the notion of a spiritual realm that sustains the witch cult, where witches are typically portrayed as women. …”
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Knowledge, Theory and Practice in Knowledge Management: Betweeen Associative Pattering and Context-Rich Action by Alex Bennet, David Bennet

“…After a brief (and vastly incomplete) introduction to KM literature at the turn of the Century, the frameworks of Sampler Call participants are introduced, and two early frameworks that achieved almost cult status—the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) continuum and the SECI (socialization, externalization, combination and internalization) model—are explored through the eyes of Sampler Call participants. …”
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Chrudimský Kristus a zázračné souřadnice jeho barokní legendy by Pavel Panoch

“…The main promoter of Chrudim's St. Salvator cult was the dean Samuel Hataš (†1685) and later it was excited by the baroque book Nebeský Lékař Kristus Ježíš (Celestial Healer Jesus Christ) by Václav Baltazar Petržilka, printed in Czech language (1718 and 1735) and later in German (1764). …”
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Stosunek religii do nauki. Punkt widzenia prawosławnego by Henryk Paprocki

“…As regards culture, we need to consider the fascinating relation of the Latin words cultus and cultura, which points to the fact that culture developed originally within the cult, and it was there where its source was (Fr. …”
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COMMUNITARIAN DIMENSION OF SOCIAL INTEGRITY PROBLEM by Yuliia Yu. Brodetskaya

“…The communities are those models of social that can overcome individualism of a modern man and society, destroy the cult of statism. Thus, as a research methodology of the social integrity issues the communitarian approach is used, as it actualizes the potential of the communities. …”
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A new monograph by Konstantin Frumkin [Review: Frumkin K.G. Admiring the Academic Class: Reflection of the Social History of Soviet Science in Literature, Art, and Public Rhetoric.... by D.E. Martynov, Yu.A. Martynova

“…Frumkin, an eminent culturologist and literary critic. He argues that the cult of science, as an institutionalized professional activity inseparable from the public interest in the work of scientists, is a specific feature of the 20th century. …”
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