The Enemy Within: the Housekeeper in Victorian Fiction by Elisabeth Jay

“…The introduction in the 1851 census of the new category of ‘housewife’ as distinct from the paid post of ‘housekeeper’, suggests that the Victorian cult of domesticity had created its own gendered ethical economy. …”
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D’une rive, l’autre by Brigitte Baptandier

“…In the style of a story, this article recounts the journey from one bank to the other (from Taiwan to China) that characterises my ethnological fieldwork. Through the cult of the Lady of Linshui, Linshui furen, and the Daoist ritual tradition of the Lüshan pai, strongly tinged with Tantrism, we skirt along the boundaries between those different sociological, imaginary and symbolic spaces. …”
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Un nouveau dieu provincial chez les Viromanduens : Apollon Vatumarus by Jean-Sébastien Cocu, Stéphane Dubois, Aurélie Rousseau, William Van Andringa

“…The recent excavation of a site at Nesle and Mesnil-Saint-Nicaise, in the eastern part of the Somme district has allowed to identify the remains of a cult place installed in a valley in the beginning of the Roman Empire. …”
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Le Sang du Christ : sang eucharistique ou sang relique ? by Marc Venard

“…There is an intriguing coincidence between the moment when the Latin Church abandoned the rite of receiving communion wine and the development of the cult of the "natural" precious Blood relic, of Christ on the cross. …”
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The sequoia files : L’arbre merveilleux by François Brunet

“…The Sequoia Files: the tree of wonder: The cult of the Sierra Nevada giant sequoia, which lasted through the second half of the 19th century, reflected not only its significance as an emblem for American primitivist and nationalist discourse, but also the more popular taste for the marvelous in nature, widely associated with California after 1850. …”
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Research Perspectives in Greek Coroplastic Studies: The Demeter Paradigm and the Goddess Bias by Jaimee P. Uhlenbrock

“…The ubiquitous presence of masses of figurative terracottas in Greek sanctuaries of the Archaic and Classical periods has given rise to their almost universal use as iconographic tools for the identification of cult. A practice that has its roots in the archaeological literature of the late 18th and early 19th century, it has engendered certain research biases that have been difficult to overcome. …”
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RESEARCH OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM OF DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INVESTMENT-CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS by V. Opekunov, I. Shherbinin

“…The conducted research has shown that the system for development and realization of investment-construction project is the dicult system that consists of a set of the interconnected components and elements which directly or indirectly exert impact on key indicators of the investment-construction project: terms, cost and quality. …”
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“Who is Afraid of Cesare Brandi?” Personal reflections on the Teoria del restauro by Salvador Muñoz Viñas

“…However, it has shortcomings that are immediately apparent to the reader: firstly, it is extremely obscure; and secondly, it makes contradictory assertions. This makes the near-cult status that it has achieved all the more fascinating. …”
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San la Muerte : un métissage religieux insistant by Maureen Burnot

“…This article proposes to trace the process of configuring the cult of San la Muerte in Argentina from archives, historical sources and ethnographic data. …”
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Banalización de la violencia y usos políticos del culto a los « mártires » y « caídos » de la « Cruzada » en el primer franquismo by Jesús Alonso Carballés

“…The author studies the cult of the civilians and fallen soldiers as a distinguished example of the trivialization of war violence and its political uses during the early Francoism. …”
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Esclaves et ministres des Lares dans la société de l’Arles antique by Nicolas Tran

“…BC trading groups’ forms of organisation, the other one with the role of the cult of the Lares in the supervision of the working classes under Augustan rule.…”
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Terracotta Figurines from the Iron IIA Temple at Moza, Judah by Shua Kisilevitz

“…Four terracotta figurines, of which two are anthropomorphic and two are zoomorphic, were found within an assemblage of cult artifacts lying on the packed earth floor of an Iron IIA temple courtyard unearthed in the course of the renewed excavations at Tel Moza. …”
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« Entrer dans l’immobilité » : les défunts en position assise du second âge du Fer by Valérie Delattre, Laure Pecqueur

“…The few Latenian individuals found in a sitting position are constantly of concern to the protohistorians and now put forward a synthetic reflection focusing on a new grid of interpretation that does not any more necessarily stigmatize funerary and/or cult discrepancies, which present the human body. …”
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Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond by Simon Deschamps

“…Masonic ritual, therefore, held centre stage in the dramaturgy of colonial power in India, and also played a leading role in fostering the cult of Empire, which emerged in the last decades of the 19th century. …”
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La fabrique des héros. Usages politiques de Francisco Morazán en Amérique Centrale au XXe siècle (1942-1992) by Catherine Lacaze

“…The objective is here to determining to what extent the cult of Morazán became more popular during the XXth century, putting emphasis on a comparative perspective at the Central America scale (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica).…”
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Os convivas da morte no banquete das almas: presença de eguns em um conto de João Antônio by Gilberto Figueiredo Martins

“…In the short story analyzed in this essay - "Eguns" - João Antônio (1937-1996), a writer from São Paulo, presents a narrator who describes in detail an unusual religious celebration held in Bahia, meant for the cult of ances- tors. Contemplative and respectful, it sticks to tell what is allowed by the religious tradition. …”
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Vladimir Colin şi basmul militant (I) by Cătălin Sturza

“…Between Vladimir Colin signing the ideological pamphlet „Problemele și drumurile basmului cult” (1955) and the author of the novel “Babel” (1978), awarded the Europe Award for Best Novel at Stresa (Italy) and the Provincia di Trento Prize by the University of Padova for his contribution to fairytale creation (1980) there is quite a large gap. …”
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De l’os, de l’ennemi et du divin. Réflexions sur quelques pratiques funéraires tupi-guarani by Olivier Allard

“…If the greatest contrast is that between vengeful exo-cannibalism and the cult of bones, there is also, within the former, a culturally determined gradation in the treatment of the bones during consumption of the corpse.…”
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Out of the Rock? Terracotta Figurines from Sagalassos in the Sadberk Hanım Museum in Istanbul by Peter Talloen, G. Senem Özden-Gerçeker

“…What is more, there are several indications that suggest an exact origin for these figurines in a recently excavated cult site situated in the periphery of the Pisidian city. …”
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Nauka o szatanie i demonach w ujęciu Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“…He points out that both the pagan temples and other objects of worship as well as the cult associated with them are a dangerous thing and clearly indicate the worship of Satan by pagans. …”
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