The Sītācarit ('The Deeds of Sītā') is a retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa story written in the mid-seventeenth century by Rāmcand Bālak. While popular throughout the first centuries after its composition, the Sītācarit fell into obscurity by the middle of the 19th century and has never been printed. This t...

the volume is one of the deliverables of the RAMSES2 programme: http://ramses2.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/ this book discovers a religious phenomenon that is very present in the Mediterranean but is still largely unknown: attendance of the same sanctuaries by faithful members of different faith-based groups h...

Summary, is used from an anthropological perspective to analyse the mechanisms of interaction between women and men in a given cultural system, based on gender identity, performed against the horizon of Catholic religion in public activities where they demonstrate their faith. Gender relations are a...

This article analyses an enthusiastic document found in the General Archive of the Nation of Buenos Aires. This is a small photo written in straight and verso containing fragments of text in three languages: Guaraní, Spanish and Latin. We try to understand their possible uses in the written culture...

International audience THE CHURCH AND THE CITIZENS IN MEDIEVAL PSKOVThe identification of the Christian Church with the whole organized society is the fundamentalfeature which distinguishes the Middle Ages from earlier and later periods ofhistory. However, in Russian historiography, Church history u...

The investigation focuses on the case study of a group of families who claim to be the owners of one of the oldest images to the Virgin of Urkupiñain the city of Salta - Argentina. The Marian invocation of Bolivian origin is celebrated, in the case analyzed, by novenas, processions and a party diffe...

This work provides the study and verbatim transcription of the only retained document of the Cofradía del Rosario de la Cartuja de Granada (1578-1796). It is an eminently monastic and rarely involved body, which had an irregular life because of the frequent rejection of the order against a devotiona...

Late medieval devotional literature was one of several interacting media (images, preaching, drama, sculpture etc.) through which the late medieval believer could engage with the figure of the suffering Christ. These texts may function as scripts: often written in the first person singular, they pro...

One of the fundamental characteristics of this work is the study of a work consisting of two canvas mounted on a single frame. This is an extraordinary case, and a paradigmatic case in the form of presentation of two uninterrupted electoral topics. On the one hand, we would have the hagiographic rep...

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Abstract: This dissertation examines music in North American Bahá’í communities and artistic contexts by focusing on the Faith’s legacy of Persian culture, aesthetics, and history of religious persecution. As such, it provides a reinvigorated look into the development...

RESUMO: This work proposes the study of the celebration of Marujada at the Festa de Nossa Madora do Rosario in Felício dos Santos, Minas Gerais, for the years 2003 to 2009. The central objective is to study the expression of the popular religion of local residents by means of historical research int...

. It is a well-established and obvious fact that, in general, cuneiform writings have evolved and grown from the short fierce and devotional texts that kings and rulers have codified and placed in the foundations and walls of the buildings, whether they are temples, palaces, walls or even channels,...

This article looks at how pictorial art, museums and architectural, devotional and popular image manifest themselves in Pedro Gómez Valderrama’s literary trials. To that end, (1) the difference between the critical and literary functions of the Ecfrasis is discussed, (2) various test texts of the Co...

During the suppression and restoration of the Society of Jesus, the expelled Jesuits developed heterogeneous actions in order to promote their restoration and reinforce their identity. Meanwhile, Priest Gaspar Juárez – exiled in Italy – promoted Jesuits cults and their persistence on both sides of t...

The John Stokes and Mary’s Gardens Collection documents the research of John S. Stokes, Jr. and the history and activities of the Mary’s Gardens movement, a popular Catholic movement related to planting devotional gardens dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. This article provides an overview of thi...

It is not easy for the first Christian communities to reach decisively the representation of the pathohall in which the child of God was (apparently) defeated. The issue of execution (condemnation and maltion) added to the plastic problem (prone to idolatría) seems to explain the delay in reaching t...

Increasingly, sustainability is conceived as a crisis of the human mind and the key challenge for pro-sustainability education is developing sufficient motivation in learners. The spiritual aspirations of religious communities contain sufficient motivational force, which may be deployed for effectiv...

The iconographic research deals with the particular topic of the Holy Kinship, a common subject in the north of the Alps, but almost absent in Italy. Through a study about the historic and devotional grounds for the fortune of the theme in the transalpine area, especially in the Flemish and Rhenish...

This article addresses specifically and in depth the cornice panel of the Crowning of the Virgin still kept in Pesaro from which it was separated. We look at its particular iconography that could better be qualified as a scene of an Unction of Christ. Our goal is to understand Giovanni Bellini’s cho...

It is not easy for the first Christian communities to reach decisively the representation of the pathohall in which the child of God was (apparently) defeated. The issue of execution (condemnation and maltion) added to the plastic problem (prone to idolatría) seems to explain the delay in reaching t...

The history of American independence has marked a first and a later in the historical approach to transatlantic relations. Numerous investigations have analysed the identity processes and the social break between the old virinates and the Hispanic monarchy. However, the political conflict experience...

<p>In Early Modern Spain, noble women developed their faith in different religious spaces. Privately, since they were little girls, they learned from the religious pieces of art that adorned their houses’ rooms and listened the holy mass next to their ladies-in-waiting in little oratories and chapel...

Historical challenging period of political authoritarianism in Iran has affected the criminal policy’s ineffectiveness. Public law and especially criminal policy in its both sources - Shiite jurisprudence and western legal thought - has experienced numerous challenges due to the lack of an active an...

The History of Religions, along with its other functional features, is very interested in the religious ethnology, and so it is considered as “the science of the religious peoples” both in global and local perspectives. This article deals with Hikmet Tanyu (1918- 1992)’s ethnographical phenomenology...

The Saint-Laurent church in Paris is a good example of how stained glass witnessed a renaissance during the nineteenth century. Three commissions signed between 1846 and 1888 with stained glass artists of renown bear witness to the evolution of this art from early researches in the 1820s to complete...