Pavol Országh’s Poems Written in German by Petr Kučera

“…Hviezdoslav’s active attitude towards the classical and Christian cultural and spiritual heritage also plays an important role in the poems addressed in this article.…”
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Clinical services instead of sermons by Tuija Hovi

“…The changes that occur in the religious field in Finland take place largely within the Christian cultural field. In addition to the obvious organisational changes taking place in the religious landscape of Finland, there is a certain fragmentation of contemporary religious attitudes. …”
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Possible Scenarios of Development of Migration Processes in the Context of Eurasian Integration by A. A. Kazantsev, L. Yu. Gusev

“…One of them, according to the authors, is the tendency for the population in the post-Soviet space to grow, mainly in the countries of the Muslim cultural tradition, primarily in Central Asia, while in the countries of the Christian cultural tradition it is falling. The possible expansion of the EAEU is considered as a factor determining migration. …”
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Ocio y ascesis aristocrática : Jerónimo y su lectio divina en Roma (382-385) by Raúl González Salinero

“…Following the trail of the intellectual tradition that had characterized the aristocratic otium, although reorientated in this case to the Christian cultural universe, the study and exegesis of the Holy Scriptures throughout the lectio divina did become into the distintive feature of the propositum sanctitatis.…”
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Cross-cultural support for a link between analytic thinking and disbelief in God: Evidence from India and the United Kingdom by Michael N. Stagnaro, Robert M. Ross, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand

“…First, prior research focused on Judeo-Christian cultures, and it is uncertain whether the results generalize to other religious systems or beliefs. …”
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Cross-cultural support for a link between analytic thinking and disbelief in God: Evidence from India and the United Kingdom by Michael N. Stagnaro, Robert M. Ross, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand

“…First, prior research focused on Judeo-Christian cultures, and it is uncertain whether the results generalize to other religious systems or beliefs. …”
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Middle Ages University: context of intellectual and cultural traditions. Part II by M.A. Kornienko

“…The sphere of university education, according to the author, receives a powerful impetus for development through the intensive use of translated Latin classics, translations of Greek and Arabic works – those sources that were assimilated by the Latin Christianized culture. Philosophy and logic take priority positions in the educational segment of the University of the Middle Ages. …”
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Dialogue of cultures as a synthesis of arts: experience of formation of integrative poetics in Diaghilev's seasons by Anna Arefieva

“…In particular, in Ihor Stravinsky's "Sacred Spring" staged by Waclaw Nizynski, scenography by Nikolay Rerich, there is a dialogue between pagan and Christian cultures as a synthetic choreographic and musical image. …”
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Cross-cultural support for a link between analytic thinking and disbelief in god: Evidence from India and the United Kingdom by Stagnaro, MN, Ross, RM, Pennycook, G, Rand, DG

“…First, prior research focused on Judeo-Christian cultures, and it is uncertain whether the results generalize to other religious systems or beliefs. …”
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A Narrative of Spirituality and Ageing: Reflections on the Ageing Journey and the Spiritual Dimension by Elizabeth MacKinlay

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«A Lily Among Thorns»: Yoasaf Krokovskyi’s Akathist to Saint Great Martyr Barbara and Its Dominating Floral Images by Maksymchuk Olha

“…The metaphor of Barbara as a lily among thorns was probably drawn from the biblical Song of Songs through themediation of the Christian cultural tradition. Thorns mean temptations and sufferings of Saint Barbara that were inflicted on her by wicked pagans. …”
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Физичке и психичке особине човека изражене фразеолошким јединицама с религијским компонентама у српском језику... by Наташа C. Вуловић Емонтс

“…The aim is also to display how much this part of Serbian phraseology reflects Judeo-Christian cultural and historical heritage. Apart from the above-mentioned global phraseological meanings, the tables provided in the paper contain the features of positive and negative connotation, qualification of physical characteristics attitude of the speaker (derisive, derogatory, humorous, etc.), as well as the stylistic aspects: irony (агнец божији, изигравати свеца, не дати Богу штапа да убије врага etc), oximoron (живе мошти), paradox (посветио се к’о Гојко у ћивоту). …”
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Pitfalls in �Biblical� leadership by Volker Kessler

“…As early as 1951, Niebuhr claimed that in the field of leadership in particular the radical exclusive Christians reintroduced rules from non-Christian cultures. Examples from the last decade support Niebuhr�s observation. …”
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On the problem of cultural religiosity as phenomen of contemporary Russian religious culture by Vladimir Yur’evich Lebedev

“…Cultural religiosity is specific to many mainstream confessions and less connected with any marginal groups on account of their noncultural preferences as a matter of principle and reluctance to suppress spreading as it happens among «ethnic Christians.» Cultural religiosity bearers frequently take religion easy. …”
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El amor cortés: la Weltanschaaung de la literatura medieval / Courteous love: the Weltanschaaung of medieval literature by Teresa Aizpún Bobadilla

“…Idea that arises from a fundamentally Western and Christian cultural background. Love is not understood as a platonic relationship, but total and real and of course joyful, contrary to what is often believed. …”
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Hakkorset då och nu. Reflexioner utifrån Lars-Ivar Ringboms artikel i Granskaren 1933 by Lars Berggren

“…It also occurred very early in Mesopotamia and was later taken over by Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine and Christian cultures. During the latter half of the 19th century in particular, its popularity as symbol of good luck grew steadily and a large number of different countries, companies, organizations and semi-religious societies adopted it in their seals, trademarks and icons. …”
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A Contrastive Psycholinguistic Study of the British Emotional Concept 'Envy' and Ukrainian 'Zazdrist’': Particularities of Phraseological Objectification by Kostiantyn Mizin, Liudmyla Slavova, Oleksandr Petrov

“….: GRATITUDE, KINDNESS, VIRTUE, HONOUR) makes it possible to speak about the concurrence of fundamental moral values and attitudes in Christian cultures. Moreover, the concepts ENVY & ЗАЗДРІСТЬ figure prominently in the hierarchy of values (“white” envy) vs. disvalues (“black” envy) of the contrasted lingual cultures. …”
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Tworzenie się kultury kulinarnej Europejczyków by Rastislava Stoličná

“…By a gradual mixing of “barbarian” rituals with Christian ideology the European culinary culture was cristallised, including mainly the role of meat and fat. In a Christian cultural circle meat had connotations it has nowadays. …”
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Cedar as a Tree Image of Siberian Text by Tatiana Alexandrovna Bogumil

“…The real and cultural qualities of the cedar as a coniferous, evergreen, powerful, fruit-bearing, “male” tree determine its sacralisation in Siberian pagan and Russian Christian cultures. The Russian name for the Siberian cedar pine, “кедр”, which dates to the Middle Ages, establishes a correspondence between Siberia and Palestine, North and South, reflects the process of mythologisation of the conquered space in the categories of paradise / locus of the Passion. …”
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Metacultural Aspect of Creative Work of the Modern Ukrainian Composers: the Tradition of the Mother of God by M. O. Savenko

“…This is possible due to the fact that it is able to cross the borders of other Christian cultures with the help of universal images, one of which is the image of the Mother of God. …”
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