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Volunteering as an Instrument for Preparing Young People for Christian Marriage and Family Life
Published 2023-09-01“…The roots of modern volunteering should be sought in various forms of social commitment and charity activities already existing in the circle of Christian culture in antiquity. Contemporary volunteering is one of the important segments of civil society, which is why it develops well in democratic countries. …”
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Binocular vision and archaic religiosity in Minahasa
Published 2022-08-01“…The encounter between Christian culture and religion in Minahasa has attracted attention because it reflects various resonances and fluctuations. …”
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Zapomniane "sacrum" - cmentarze ludności niemieckiej i żydowskiej jako problem społeczno-kulturowy współczesnego miasta
Published 2010-02-01“… In the Christian culture, a cemetery is a special place, a memory place of those who died, a place symbolically marked with specific forms of small architecture, sculpture, engraved in the stone of an often poetical informative documentary transcription. …”
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Some Geometrical Motifs in Caucasus and in Cappadocia in the Middle Ages: Meditations About Its Origin and Interpretation
Published 2022-12-01“…In conclusion, there is supposition that the permanent presence of the motif in sacral and traditional every day culture of the Northern Caucasus and Western Georgia is due to the influence of the Koban-Colchis cultural and historical community. In medieval Christian culture, it could have function of apotropeia. …”
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Short and Clipped Forms of Adjective in Russian Spiritual Poetry of Karelia: Grammatical Aspect
Published 2021-12-01“…The relevance of the study is due to the lack of study of spiritual poetry from the point of view of language and the opportunity to consider the interaction of oral and written traditions, secular and Christian culture, which are closely intertwined in the folklore genre of spiritual poetry. …”
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Baptismal art and identity construction in the Western Mediterranean in the fifth and sixth centuries
Published 2019“…I argue that Christian art and material culture shows us that in their lived religious practices, Christians treated Roman cultural techniques and Roman spaces, which high-ranking church representatives considered un-Christian or even pagan, as parts of Christian culture. The thesis demonstrates that very diverse Christian groups, some located on the rural edges of the Western Mediterranean and others in one of its imperial centres, Ravenna, allowed Roman visual culture, and even pre-Christian cult spaces, to shape baptismal art and architecture. …”
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To heaven through hell: are there cognitive foundations for purgatory evidence from Islamic cultures
Published 2021“…The purgatory doctrine, which has played a vital role in Christian culture, states that most believers must experience afterlife punishment in order to be cleansed of their sins before entering Heaven. …”
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La ricerca attuale sui rapporti tra il primo Cristianesimo e la cultura classica alla luce di un recente contributo
Published 2005-01-01“…</p><p>The present review article considers the relationship between the early Christian culture and the classical one in the light of a recent and rich miscellaneous volume that brings many important contributions to this question, and also provides a status quaestionis of the research in this field. …”
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Сonceptual basis of representation of the image of God in early medieval English literature
Published 2018-09-01“…The article carries out research into direct and indirect nominations of God in early medieval linguoculture and puts forward an argument that extended network of synonyms denoting God results from peculiarities of ancient poetic style as well as understanding of the concept of God in early Christian culture. The article offers etymological survey and analysis of conceptual meanings which contributed to changeability and an extended amount of nominations of God. …”
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«Воспой гласом, воспой духом». Духовная лирика старообрядческих поморских общин Верхокамья
Published 2015-06-01“…Spiritual lyric poetry of Old Believers Pomors communities inhabiting Upper Kama River The article contains broad discussion of well-preserved traditional Christian culture in the community of Priestless Old-Believers of the ‘Pomortsy-Vygovtsy’ faction located at the springhead of Kama River. …”
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American evangelical nationalism: history, status quo, and outlook
Published 2023-12-01“…On the other hand, from the perspective of “identity and ultimate belief”, although the identity problem characterized by the “culture war” will be relatively relieved with the mitigation of internal and external conditions, the United States, as a “Christian nation” underpinned by Christian culture and faith, will see evangelical nationalism resilient. …”
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Music as a Liberal Art: The Poetry of the Universe
Published 2022-08-01“…Augustine’s <i>De Musica</i>, the first in a planned (but unrealized) series of dialogs on the value of the classical liberal arts to the emerging Christian culture of Antiquity. It proceeds to a discussion of music and its relation to the contemporary American liberal arts curriculum. …”
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F.M. Dostoevsky’s Story “The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree”: the Image Structure and the Aesthetics of Action
Published 2019-03-01“…The two-fold image in Dostoevsky’s works is described, as well as its analogues in the Christian culture, the qualities and characteristics of such an image, the way it is shaped through the reproduction of iconic images or through allusions to the Gospels, and its essential role in creating a space for the reader’s personal action. …”
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The Concept of "Care of the Self" and the Matter of the Other: Dialogs, Letters and Maxims
Published 2010-06-01“…The sources of this practice are recorded consecutively throughout the first millennium of philosophical history as paradigmatic representatives as Socrates and Plato, then going by the founders and followers of the Hellenistic philosophical schools stoicism, epicureanism, and cynicism- even up reach persons of Christian culture. In this world of text has been selected a very unique of these: the letter, the careful art of relationship in the distance. …”
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Kult Trzygława w Szczecinie lat 20. XII stulecia. Między monolatrią a „dwuwiarą”
Published 2019-12-01“… The cult of Triglav in the Polabian-Pomeranian territory in the 12th century confirms an evolution of the religious system of the local Slavic communities towards monolatry, largely affected by confrontation as well as a cultural dialogue with the Christian culture. At first, at the time of the Pomeranian missions of Saint Otto of Bamberg in the 1120s, attempts at suppressing the cult did not bring about long-term effects. …”
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Byzantine exhibitions in the Russian Museum: 1898—1928
Published 2021-03-01“…Thus, objects of Byzantine origin were considered as part of Christian culture and a preliminary stage of ancient Russian art. …”
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Layperson, ascetic, and cleric in Iberian Christianity, c.500-711
Published 2021“…In the Visigothic kingdom, the exceptional literary production of Isidore of Seville has been characterized as indicative of a ‘Renaissance’ in Christian culture, clerical organization, and pastoral care. …”
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The Taste of Truth
Published 2021-11-01“…In this analysis, the paper argues that Christian culture is a very rich source of taste-based cultural metaphors, and that taste does play a major role in the way Christianity has developed its own understanding of knowledge, ethics and human life in general. …”
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T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound: To the History of Creative Contacts
Published 2019-11-01“…Despite the fact that Eliot and Pound have been assigned very different images (the first one is seen a conservative, defender of Christian culture, a Nobel laureate, while the other is famous for being an eternal exile, a herald of permanent poetic revolution, an admirer of Benito Mussolini), these two figures complement each other, thus illustrating the versatility of Anglo-American literary modernism. …”
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To Heaven through Hell: Are There Cognitive Foundations for Purgatory? Evidence from Islamic Cultures
Published 2021-11-01“…The purgatory doctrine, which has played a vital role in Christian culture, states that most believers must experience afterlife punishment in order to be cleansed of their sins before entering Heaven. …”
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