Breaking the Frame: Arabesque and Metric Complexity in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912) by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

“…At this moment, the motif bursts into the foreground to suggest the symbolic fusion of nature, divinity, and human emotion. The structural role of the arabesque figure on metric and narrative levels unsettles prevailing viewpoints of ornament as meaningless and non-essential. …”
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Playing in Tongues: The Hammond Organ and Black Pentecostal Instrumentality by Braxton D. Shelley

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« Ilé Tuntun » à La Havane by Alain Konen

“…This paper offers a detailed ethnography of a shrine house based in Havana called Ilé Tuntun, whose leader is the babalawo (priest-diviner of Ifá) Frank Obeché. Ilé Tuntun aims, with the help of Yoruba political and religious dignitaries, to re-establish lost links with Africa and reform Ifá’s practice in Cuba. …”
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Masculinité et relations de genre dans la société secrète abakuá by Géraldine Morel

“…Indeed, its organization and its system of recruitment based on individual merit are at odds with that of people practising Santería or Palo Monte because these other Afro-Cuban cults are an exchange between gods and humans (trance, sacrifice or divination) and have an influence on everyday life problems.In fact, being abakuá implies a hyper-masculine, machismo gender construction. …”
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Perspective on Agapeic Ethic and Creation Care by Loveday Chigozie Onyezonwu, Ucheawaji Godfrey Josiah

“…This paper argued that Christians’ involvement in proper waste management, keeping both private and public spaces clean, is a morally and divinely imposed duty and a practical testimonial of their love for God, their fellow human beings, and non-human others. …”
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Le foudre foudroyant et ravageant oublié de Pierre Juvernay by Sophie Longuet

“…La foudre n’est pas encore considérée comme un phénomène naturel, mais elle est un châtiment divin. Il faudra attendre le XVIIIe siècle, en effet, pour que la physique se lance dans l’examen de la foudre en tant que telle après la découverte de l’électricité.…”
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“Solutions in Hieroglyphic”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Picturesque Language,” and the Ancient Near East by Mathieu Duplay

“…Traditionnellement, l’exégèse biblique s’était jusque-là donné pour tâche d’élaborer des interprétations correctes, de retrouver la signification exacte de textes dont la lettre paraît souvent ambiguë et confuse ; le discours connu sous le nom de « Divinity School Address » constitue la principale contribution d’Emerson à ce débat. …”
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Theologen van de twintigste eeuw en de christologie by A. van de Beek

“…Wolfhart Pannenberg (§7) tried to argue that Christ was the ultimate evidence of the divinity of Israel’s God. The   resurrection of Jesus is the objective proof of God. …”
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Lecture poétique des langues locales : cas de Nyanndra Mun (Proverbes) du Roi Salomon by Koffi Samuel N’ZI & Kouamé Gilles YAO

“…Dans cette perspective, nous sommes parvenus, au regard des principes des poétiques internes et des genres, au résultat que Nyanndra Mun de Salomon allie harmonieusement spiritualité et substance générique non sans les prescriptions et recommandations divines également articulées par les catégories formelles de la narration, la poésie et celles des sous genres oraux dont le dicton, la maxime et la sentence. …”
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De l’agglomération antique de Cassinomagus au village de Chassenon (Charente) : un bilan des connaissances by Lucie Carpentier, Sandra Sicard

“…Valuable information relative to the specific divinities belonging to the community of Cassinomagus is also provided to us by a lapidary inscription discovered in the thermal baths in 2012. …”
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Lecture poétique des langues locales : cas de Nyanndra Mun (Proverbes) du Roi Salomon by Koffi Samuel N’ZI & Kouamé Gilles YAO

“…Dans cette perspective, nous sommes parvenus, au regard des principes des poétiques internes et des genres, au résultat que Nyanndra Mun de Salomon allie harmonieusement spiritualité et substance générique non sans les prescriptions et recommandations divines également articulées par les catégories formelles de la narration, la poésie et celles des sous genres oraux dont le dicton, la maxime et la sentence.   …”
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Introducing ‘trident’: a graphical interface for discriminating groups using dental microwear texture analysis by Thiery, Ghislain, Francisco, Arthur, Louail, Margot, Berlioz, Emilie, Blondel, Cécile, Brunetière, Noël, Ramdarshan, Anusha, Walker, Axelle EC, Merceron, Gildas

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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…“Epistemic and Metaphysical Integrity in Ifá”, the second part, examines his argument for a re-centering of studies in classical African thought within the epistemic and metaphysical frames of those bodies of knowledge, using the Yoruba origin Ifá system of knowledge, spiritual development and divination as an example, an illustration I analyze through my own understanding of the cognitive and metaphysical framework of Ifá. …”
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Villa d’époque romaine et habitat médiéval à Mont-Saint-Jean (Sarthe) : bilan des recherches 2008-2020 by Florian Sarreste, Paul-André Besombes, Phaedra Bouvet, Chloé Genies, Étienne Jaffrot, Florian Jedrusiak, Thomas Jubeau, Anthony Ledauphin, Annaïg Le Martret, Christophe Loiseau, Hugo Meunier, Aurore Noël, Sandrine Paradis-Grenouillet, Boris Robin

“…This work led to the discovery of a male divinity statuette and a masonry building with four rooms, within one of which a mosaic was revealed. …”
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