“But hey, this is Africa, man”: Water Music and the Postmodernization of the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Robert Scott

“…Adoptant un point de vue sceptique envers les documents historiques, Water Music banalise des personnages et des événements du passé qui étaient jusque-là objets de vénération et en même temps problématise la nature même de la connaissance historique. …”
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Celebrarea lui Isis și Sarapis: sărbători și practici rituale isiace în coloniile milesiene din Propontida și de la Pontul Euxin by Remus Mihai Feraru

“…The ritual of incubation is closely linked to the cult of Sarapis, who, as a god who heals by means of a dreamlike epiphany, is the object of great veneration by his followers. Incubation spread to Pontus Euxinus with the establishment of the Isiac cults.…”
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Dynamics of the Cult of Sheik Hussein of Bale, Ethiopia: Its Course and Curse of the Extremists, a Historical Perspective by Kefyalew Tessema Semu

“…His connection to the blood line of Prophet Mohammed, as well as his spiritual graces and deeds in the Isalmization of Bale were factors behind his fame, which led to his veneration as a saint while already he was alive and fully transformed into a cult, after his death. …”
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Diclofenac Ion Hydration: Experimental and Theoretical Search for Anion Pairs by Anastasia V. Shishkina, Alexander A. Ksenofontov, Nikita V. Penkov, Mikhail V. Vener

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Cytogenetics and DNA barcoding of the Round-eared bats, Tonatia (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae): a new karyotype for Tonatia bidens by Jaqueline R. Tavares, Tatiane P. de Sousa, Joaquim M. da Silva, Paulo C. Venere, Karina de C. Faria

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Catholic Women and Religious Life in an Early Modern Lithuanian Town: The Case of Kaunas by Vaida Kamuntavičienė

“…In the masculinized society of the Early Modern epoch, the women of Kaunas acted as founders of Catholic churches, convents and altars, as pious women who took care of the veneration of supposedly miraculous images, and as nuns. …”
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New Discoveries of Tatar Gravestones of the 15th–16th Centuries: their classification and specific features by Gumerov Ilgam G., Akhunov Azat M., Usmanov Vener M.

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Memorialization of Kazakh Warriors in Orenburg and Volgograd Oblasts by Agila M. Nurgalieva, Askhat Zh. Amen

“…Acts of commemoration for warriors are somewhat re-readings or re-inclusions of the past into the present-day agenda. Such venerations articulate significant ethnic values, norms, and behavioral patterns. …”
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Tracing the Fate of the Northern Bald Ibis over Five Millennia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Extinction and Recovery of an Iconic Bird Species by Johannes Fritz, Jiří Janák

“…The benefit to people was rather cultural because the bird attracted religious veneration or symbolic meanings from ancient Egypt to medieval Europe. …”
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The ambiguities of belief and belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the sixteenth century by Parker, L

“…The Chaldaeans seem to present a paradox, in that they broke away from their existing Church and turned towards the papacy for support, yet continued to espouse their traditional beliefs and venerate their traditional saints, deemed heretical by Catholics. …”

Building the city of God: imperial patronage and local influence in Jerusalem from Theodosius I to Justinian (379-565 ad) by Klein, K

“…One of my key findings about this traffic is that the cult of saints was introduced to Jerusalem from Constantinople, while, in contrast, the veneration of the Virgin Mary originated in the holy city and reached the capital from there. …”

The intellect of Abū Hāmid Al-Ghazālī in dealing with the Qur’anic scientific exegesis by Ahmad Yunus Mohd Noor, Zetty Nurzuliana Rashed, Asmilyia Mohd Mokhtar

“…To reach a representative conclusion, this study undertakes an analysis of the al-Ghazālī view, promotes intellectual discourse, and venerated exegesis as the main sources of reference by adopting the document analysis method. …”
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Temporomandibular Disorders and Bruxism among Sex Workers—A Cross Sectional Study by Ilana Eli, Adi Zigler-Garburg, Efraim Winocur, Pessia Friedman-Rubin, Tamar Shalev-Antsel, Shifra Levartovsky, Alona Emodi-Perlman

“…The study shows that health problems of sex workers go beyond venereal diseases, HIV and mental disorders which are commonly studied. …”
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Saving India's rivers: Ecology, civil society, religion, and legal personhood by Harry Blair

“…Theoretically, it would seem that environmentalists and Hindu devotees with their veneration of nature should be able to work in common cause to reduce pollution, but any large-scale cooperation seems unlikely between these two disparate realms. …”
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Relationships between Health Education, Health Behaviors, and Health Status among Migrants in China: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on the China Migrant Dynamic Survey by Minji Kim, Hai Gu

“…Specifically, health education related to occupational diseases, venereal diseases/AIDS, and self-rescue in public emergencies had a significant positive impact on migrants’ health, while health education regarding chronic diseases had a significant negative impact. …”
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On the Emerging Supremacy of Structured Digital Data in Archaeology: A Preliminary Assessment of Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Left Behind by Hacıgüzeller Piraye, Taylor James Stuart, Perry Sara

“…Structured digital data are often venerated for their capacities to facilitate interoperability, equitable data exchange, democratic forms of engagement with, and widespread reuse of archaeological records, yet their constraints on our knowledge formation processes are arguably profound and deserving of detailed interrogation. …”
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Cultural Implications of Nature and Eco-Consciousness in Select 21st Century Indian Retellings of the Mahabharata by Rashmita Devi, Prachand Narayan Piraji

“…Theologically, in the Hindu culture, nature is venerated for possessing mythical supremacy. The present article reflects this supremacy of nature celebrated through the character of Yaksha. …”
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Bizans İkonoklazm Tartışması (726-843) ve Ayasofya: Tasvir İhtilafının Mabedin Tezyinatına Etkisi/yzantine Iconoclastic Controversy (726-843) and the Hagia Sophia: The Impact of th... by Bilal Baş

“…The Orthodox church doctrine venerates icons as an object of worship in both public and private devotion. …”
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The Transformation Of Churches Into Mosques. The Ketchaoua Mosque In Algeria As An Exemplar by BOUSMAHA Said

“…The transmutation of churches and ancillary houses of worship into mosques assumes paramount import in Algeria's historical narrative, signifying an earnest endeavor to validate and underscore the nation's Islamic ethos—a facet relentlessly undermined by the French colonizers through the erection of Christian churches and the repurposing of myriad sacred sites into Christian places of veneration. Authoritative Algerian statistics bear witness to the transformation of more than six hundred non-Islamic places of worship into mosques following Algeria's proclamation of independence, with a vestige thereof in significant urban centers, including Algiers, Annaba, and Oran, retaining their original vocation to the present day. …”
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Kant on the fine arts: A reply to a social practices objection by Clewis Robert R.

“…I then argue that Kant’s account is able to neutralize the objection for three main reasons. 1) Kant to some extent acknowledges the social functions of art, including veneration and honoring. His notion of adherent beauty provides a way to account for the social functions of the work. 2) Kant’s theory can be expanded to account for social protest art, memorial art, reflexive art and conceptual art. 3) Another basis for recognizing the social functions of art can be derived from Kant’s view of the empirical interest in the beautiful, which is grounded on sociability. …”
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