Controlling the Boundaries of Morality: The History and Powers of Ayelala Deity by Oluwafunminiyi Raheem, Mike Famiyesin

“… The worship of deities has always been a major religious preoccupation among the Yoruba. …”
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கொங்கு நாட்டின் இராசிபுர வட்டார சிறுதெய்வங்களும் வழிபாட்டு முறைகளும் / Deities and Worshipping Methods in the Rasipuram Region of Kongu Nadu by செ. தனபால் / S. Dhanapal

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MythicVision: a deep learning powered mobile application for understanding Indian mythological deities using weight centric decision approach by Tauseef Khan, Aditya Nitin Patil, Aviral Singh, Gitesh Prashant Bhavsar, Kanakagiri Sujay Ashrith, Sachi Nandan Mohanty

“…The designed MythicVision aims to recognize and classify real-time Indian deity images along with providing valuable information to the users about the deity. …”
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The revival of spiritual practices: factors influencing the “seeking deities and offering prayers” behavior of China’s Generation Z on social media in an atheistic context by Jing Wang, Balamuralithara Balakrishnan, Xiaohui Wan, Qirui Yu, Qiqi Ye

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PANDEMIC OASIS: POPULAR RELIGIOSITIES AS WOMEN’S LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITAS by K.F. Chan

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Why Hair Needs to Be Long by Nicolas Sihlé

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The Metaphysics of Justice: Ayelala’s Rise in Benin and Other Parts of Edo State by Benson Ohihon Igboin

“… This article discusses the origin, spread and efficacy of the deity Ayelala, who is responsible for the execution of justice. …”
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Ritual as mechanism for securing life and averting evil among the Krobo by G. Ossom-Batsa

“… Ritual is one of the ways in which a group of people or a believing community expresses in concrete terms their faith in a deity(ies). Two of the many functions of rituals are to secure blessings from the deity or to ward off evil. …”
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Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo) by Eugenio Giorgianni

“…The research subjects position their worship of the patron saint – as the deity of their arrival city – alongside their devotion to Hindu female goddesses, by drawing analogies between local devotional practices and the religious experiences of postcolonial Mauritius. …”
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IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGINS OF ISRAELITE ANICONISM by S I Kang

“…In discussing the concept of aniconism, this article follows Mettinger’s (1995:18) distinction between de facto aniconism (the mere absence of iconic representations of a deity) and programmatic aniconism (the repudiation of such representations). …”
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The Depersonalized as Vanishing Hero and Heroine in Yorùbá Moral Placards by Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi

“…The paper argues that in the imagination, reality, and social constructions of the Yorùbá, desirable existence would make the dead, and not a living person, a deity, hero or heroine. It further argues that because Yorùbá society permits the co-existence and co[1]extensiveness of individual and public moral placards which is not regarded as an entirely closed system, an otherwise depersonalized person can later become a hero/deity/heroine. …”
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« Ils ont transformé la divinité Yuma en Dieu ! » by Mélanie Vandenhelsken

“…This article focuses on recent changes in Limbu rituals in Sikkim, and especially the disagreement between a new religious movement called Yumaism—centred on the cult of a young woman considered a reincarnation of the Limbu domestic deity Yuma—and those who think that only shamanism is representative of the Limbu tradition. …”
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Un autel miniature consacré à une déesse locale chez les Rèmes by Anthony Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, William Van Andringa

“…, but the engraved inscription on the altar allows us to add a new deity in the Remorum pantheon. The breaks in the altar stone create some problems for the reading of the inscription : part of lines 2 and 3 are unreadable, as well as the end of the text on the back side. …”
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"You are my rock and fortress". Refuge metaphors in Psalm 31. A perspective from cognitive metaphor theory by A. Basson

“…The one under constant attack of the enemy has no other option but to implore the deity to intervene on his behalf. Yahweh is invoked to save the supplicant and to destroy the adversaries. …”
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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

“…The very particular way the antagonism between the two aspects of one astral deity is understood can be taken as a conceptual model explaining a whole range of religious practices and believes, from agricultural and rain-related ceremonies to ritual deer-hunt and sacrifice.…”
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Cesta pekelného notáře z Mexika do Kuksu by Pavel Štěpánek

“…The analysis of the word proves that derivates from the name of the Mexican deity Huitzilopochtli, one of the most important of the Aztec Pantheon. …”
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La dimensión mítica de la peregrinación tarasca by Roberto Martínez González

“…In the foundation myth described in the Relación de Michoacán, the alliance and confrontation between male solar hunters and female aquatic-telluric, fisher-farmers represent the union of opposites but complementary principles, analogous to those participating in the set up of the human being. Considering that the deity and the people are mutually represented, the displacement of the Chichimecs in the north-south sense is comparable to the apparent seasonally movement of the sun – their god – in the horizon, and symbolizes at the same time the origins of the real Tarascan and a change in the economic strategies during the annual cycle. …”
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God as father: the representation of the tenth plague in children's Bibles by J. S. du Toit

“…The latter’s death through the direct agency of God presents a problematic perspective on the portrayal of the deity as loving father in light of the anti-hero, Pharaoh’s, loss. …”
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Applying Durkheim to Elvis by Mark Duffett

“…In this article I argue that although Elvis fans are not substituting him for a deity, we can use one mechanism from Emile Durkheim’s theory of totemic religion to understand the human chemistry of his phenomenon. …”
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