Church and State Relations in the Constitution of Malta by Kevin Aquilina

“…Malta is a confessional state which respects freedom of conscious and worship and all other religions and cults are protected by law. It considers other instances, such as the instructions of children in state schools in the Catholic religion and the influence of the Catholic Church on the state. …”
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Pater : de la décadence à l’euphuisme by Bénédicte Coste

“…Le rapport de Walter Pater à la Décadence est complexe et nécessite une explicitation de son rapport à la temporalité afin de constater que les concepts de renaissance et de décadence finissent par se recouper à travers l’élévation de l’articulation temporelle à la dignité d’un culte ou au trivial de la mode ou de la babiole. …”
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El doble personaje del planeta Venus en las religiones indígenas del Gran Nayar: mitología, ritual agrícola y sacrificio by Johannes Neurath

“…Indigenous religion of West Mexico’s Gran Nayar region offers important clues for understanding Ancient Mesoamerica’s cults of planet Venus. The fact that among Cora-Indians, and, to a lesser extent, among Huichols and local Nahuas, Venus-related mythology has been maintained should not be taken as something circumstantial. …”
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La réception du XXe Congrès dans la région de Gorki by Jean-Paul Depretto

“…Le retentissement à court terme du XXe Congrès a été réel, mais limité ; quand le thème du « culte de la personnalité » était évoqué dans les réunions, il était surtout lu à partir de préoccupations locales : sa critique servait à mettre en cause tous ceux qui détenaient quelque pouvoir : supérieurs hiérarchiques dans l’entreprise ou cadres du parti.…”
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"Religion and Mythology : A Poetics of indianité in Francis Gilbert Ponaman’s La nuit du Swami" by Shweta Deshpande

“…I propose to examine how Indian cultural elements, and more specifically, Hindu mythology, practices and cults are transposed into French Antillean discourse. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Views of Rodney Stark and Bryan Wilson in the Context of Secularisation Paradigms by Büşra Kutluay Çelik

“…According to Stark, secularisation has notably impacted traditional, low-intensity religious groups, it has not precluded the emergence of fervent cults and sects. Stark argues that although the influence of traditional religious institutions has diminished due to secularization, religious practices persist. …”
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La traversée médiatique du simple soldat. À partir de l’œuvre de Bertrand Carrière by Johanne Villeneuve

“…Our analysis relies on the relationship between mediation, testimony and cults of the dead. On this basis, the mediation of the soldier’s experience of WWII should be understood as a complex testimony, involving legacy as well as memory and remembrance. …”
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Du rat-toto fils du porc-épic, de la panthère et de la nandinie by Claudie Haxaire

“…The origin of the most beautiful and most complete expression of the Guro art, that of the Zamble mask and its masquerade, combine poetry of tales and precision of encyclopedic knowledge.Taking at its words the animal nicknames given by the Guro of Zuenoula to the masks of the Zamble family, namely Zamble himself, his wild brother Zàùlì and their wife Gù, we show how the habits attributed respectively to the panther, to the Gambian pouched rat and to the African palm civet, encyclopedic knowledge on which the tales are based, illuminates the warlike origin of these cults. These sacred masks being actualized in public masquerades, women whose knowledge of the sacred remains forbidden can nevertheless approach its meaning by following the naturalistic analogies that are unveiled by songs and tales. …”
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Marrons, colons, contrebandiers. Réseaux transversaux et configuration métisse sur la côte caraïbe colombienne (Dibulla) by Anne-Marie Losonczy

“…Their organization consists of multipolar networks of kindreds, articulated by rivalry and factionalism, the territorial basis of which is both matrifocal and religious, through localized cults to the saints and the dead. Their regime of memory and historicity, as well as their socio-political organization which overrides ethnic, regional and national borders, make this society a remarkable illustration of a kind of cross-border sociability, without community and definable collective identity, rarely studied by anthropologists. …”
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Ethnogenèse du New Age andin : à la recherche de l’Inca global by Antoinette Molinié

“…The neo-Incas have given an imperial pre-Hispanic dimension to indigenous cults. The State Indian has offered a model of autochtony to the Peruvian nation. …”
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Audre Lorde: Black Feminist Visionary and “Mytho-poet” by Njeng Eric Sipyinyu

“…Audre Lorde, poétesse et visionnaire noire, fait un pas de géant en traitant de ces questions et en faisant resurgir tout un panthéon de symboles mythologiques dans sa poésie. Pour elle, le culte et la connaissance du mythe permettront d’une part une meilleure connaissance de l’histoire, et d’autre part, la naissance de nouvelles valeurs.…”
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D’Astarté à Tanit by Geneviève Mondon

“…Il a transposé les rites et les symboles de son culte ésotérique. Lucien est un témoin oculaire, observateur et précis, mais aussi un esprit critique qui ne parle pas en adepte de cette religion. …”
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Gendered Species of Yoruba Plants: An Ecofeminist Perspective by Adeola Adijat Faleye

“…In addition, evidence reveals that within the Yorùbá belief system, some cultural practices are evident in support of the ecofeminist thought spanning various contexts in politics, warfare, or conflict resolutions, as well as Yorùbá Òrìṣà cults. Therefore, this essay seeks to explore the feminine relevance and significance in some contexts of herb or plant growth and their nature. …”
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Initiations in the Burmese Ritual Landscape by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière

“…By doing so, I aim to give a sense of the real diversity of the Burmese ritual landscape, which until recently was rarely taken into account, and to contribute to the on-going debate in the field of Buddhist studies on what could be encapsulated as the question of Buddhism and spirit cults in Southeast Asian Theravada.…”
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Bentyia (Kukyia): a Songhay–Mande meeting point, and a “missing link” in the archaeology of the West African diasporas of traders, warriors, praise-singers, and clerics by Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

“…Fishermen and other waterfolk along the river, oral traditionists and other craftspeople, priests and priestesses of African cults, and Islamic clerics, as well as armies, long-distance merchants, and enslaved human beings, moved along it. …”
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Entre o Butsudan e a missa: práticas religiosas de imigrantes japoneses no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil by Tomoko Kimura Gaudioso, André Luis Ramos Soares

“…Our case study shows the different forms of religiosity among the immigrants and how the adoption of different cults does not necessarily means syncretism or multi-religiosity (Kimura e Soares, 2009). …”
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Arthur ainda vive? by Isadora Cristine Martins

“…Virginie Greene questions the pertinence of using the term “messianism” in the Middle Ages and argues that it cannot be used in the same sense as used by historians to refer to Modernity4.In this essay we try to withdraw the analysis from the courtly environments in which they were reproduced, through some selected chronicles, from a History from Below perspective, to understand who are the people waiting for Arthur’s return and whether this hope represents more than a speech constructed by the chroniclers.From a crossing between chronicles and archaeological studies, we try to map cults, traditions, and pilgrimages linked to Arthur that circulated through Great-Britain under the Norman rule. …”
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Goats and Goddesses. Digital Approach to the Religioscapes of Atargatis and Allat by Kubiak-Schneider Aleksandra, Mazurek Sebastien

“…The database also lists the professions (capacities) of the worshippers, creating a platform for future study on the prosopography of ancient people, especially in the area of cults. This research highlights the importance of setting ancient people and their belief systems in their geographical and social contexts. …”
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Religieuse Kommunikasie by Willem de Klerk

“…Another field of study is the communication dynamics as experienced in religious cults, symbols, ceremonies and acts. The first priority should be to identify and define the specific field of the communication sciences within the religious phenomena. …”
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Un monument musical à la mémoire des ancêtres esclaves : le maloya (île de la Réunion) by Benjamin Lagarde

“…Emanation des couches créoles défavorisées, ce genre musical lié au culte des ancêtres afro-malgaches est parvenu à occuper un espace unique quant aux questions de mémoire et de culture au sein d’une « réunionnité » qu’il influence aujourd’hui de manière inédite : « mis en l’air » conjointement à l’émergence d’un contre-pouvoir politique il a la particularité d’insister sur la permanence d’une situation sociale jugée inique dont les racines sont à trouver dans l’esclavage. …”
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