THE EXODUS AND IDENTITY FORMATION IN VIEW OF THE YORUBA ORIGIN AND MIGRATION NARRATIVES by Funlola Olojede

“…<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">Certain elements of the origin and migration narratives of the Yoruba such as a common ancestor, common ancestral home, common belief in the Supreme Deity provide a basis for identity formation and recognition among the people. …”
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Iuno Regina in Aeneid 12: Evocatio and Reconciliation by María Emilia Cairo

“…It is argued here that this episode of evocatio is especially remembered in Aeneid 12, considering that in the second half of the poem Juno is described mostly as an Italian deity, and that in this dialogue she asks Jupiter to ensure the pre-eminence of the Italic characters in the configuration of the future Roman identity.…”
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Sacred Places as Cultural Ecologies: Making space for the intangible by Patrick Dillon

“…For me, a sacred place is somewhere that is recognised for its spiritual significance, usually because of the way people engage with it through ceremony, worship of a deity, or acts of homage. It may be a large tract of landscape or a modest or prominent feature within a landscape. …”
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Dance as Aggressiveness by Tina Hamrin

“…The woman who founded Tenho-kötai-jingii-kyö, Kitamura Sayo (1900-1967), publicly announced in July 1945 that the world was coming to an end and that she had been chosen by the absolute deity Tensho Kotai Jingu to be the savior of the world. …”
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Ending Christian Hegemony: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Ends of Eurocentric Thought by Dickinson Colby

“…Since deconstructing the dominant narratives of the West means deconstructing the myth of a sovereign, autonomous deity whose reign, Nancy declares, has reached its end, Christianity utilizes its own kenotic narrative to point toward the end of religion and Eurocentrism at the same time.…”
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Two ritual gestures and their religious significance by Marius CUCU

“…Gestures in religious rites are a key issue for the believer who sits in front of the Deity to supplicate and adore. Among the most common religious gestures are kneeling and putting the hands together in a vertical position. …”
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PERUBAHAN AGAMA MALIM Religious Change in Agama Malim by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…He was regarded as living manifestation of the deity. Some of the authors of Batak state that basically this ethnical religion creed is animist, with special reference to Si Singa Mangajara, together with several Muslim elements, although whether Si Singa Mangaraja XII was a Muslim is highly and politically debatable. …”

Myth, mimesis and mutiple identities: feminist tools for transforming theology by Anderson, P

“…Mythical configurations of a personal deity and a dominant sexual identity are part of our western history. …”

The “innards” in the Psalms and Job as metaphors for illness by Southwood, K

“…However, in Job a language for pain emerges which is disturbing and anthropomorphic, regularly depicting an attacking deity. In contrast, in the examples from the Psalms, tend to make a clearer distinction between the righteous and the wicked. …”

Five Great Families and Telepathy: Folk Religion and Buddhism in Neo-Dongbei Fiction by Zheng Zhi by Aiqing Wang

“…In a narrative entitled Xian Zheng ‘Divine Illness’, Zheng Zhi manifests animal worship as a form of folk religion, by means of painting a vivid portrait of shamanic practices pertaining to ‘five major deity families’ that denotes fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake and rat spirits. …”
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”Dattātreya‘s Dwelling Place” by Borayin Larios, Hemant Rajopadhye

“…Through an analysis of the temple, the deity of Dattātreya, and the udumbara tree, we explore the complex interplay of these forces and their role in shaping contemporary Hindu religious practices and beliefs in urban India. …”
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Pan, God of Wilderness, in Boeotian Landscapes: Fear, Laughter and Coming of Age by Victoria Sabetai

“…Although often seen as a pastoral god, it is argued that his presence in grottos and in the Kabirion is due to his being an interstitial deity of the wilds and for this reason an overseer of maturation, a marginal period characterised by wildness. …”
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Suffering in evolutionary biology and Christian theology: Mutually exclusive notions? by Wessel Bentley

“…The dilemma, especially in the Christian faith tradition has been to reconcile suffering with the idea of a benevolent deity in whose image humans are believed to have been created. …”
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Pancasila sebagai Pokok Pangkal Sudut Pandang Bagi Ilmu Menurut Notonagoro by Ali Mudhofir

“…Everything, including sciences, has deity background. Sciences base on reason, willing, intuition, inspiration, and revelation. …”
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Faeth fiadha. "Lorica" świętego Patryka by Ryszarda Bulas

“…The third stanza descends from the sphere of deity to the world of the first creation - angels. …”
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Hrishikesh: A Poem on Corrupted Landscape by Srinjay Chakravarti

“…Named after a form of the Hindu deity Vishnu, Hrishikesh, in Sanskrit, means “Lord of the Senses”. …”
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Raised Eyes and Humble Hearts: by Gert TM Prinsloo

“…Supplication and praise, ritual and prayer are all expressions of the lyrical I’s desire to be located at-centre, in the presence of the deity, in sacred space. Sacred space is not an ontological location, but a subjective, bodily experience of being in the presence of the divine. …”
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Belenus, Cybele, and Attis: Echoes of their Cults through the Centuries by Marjeta Šašel Kos

“…There are two interesting cases of the worship of Roman period deities in the north-eastern Italian and Pannonian regions, which in one way or another seem to have survived through the early medieval to modern times. …”
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Ordres et impératif chez les stoïciens et Apollonius Dyscole by Frédérique Ildefonse

“…In Epictetus, the cosmic reality in its natural dynamism arranges in an orderly way the different responses that different living beings give to the orders addressed to them by the deity. Apollonius Dyscolus inscribes addressing the imperative in his system of modal transpositions: each mode is transposed into a form comprising the infinitive along with the verb that signifies the same thing as the modal inflection. …”
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‘Bright Cynthia comes to hunt and revel here’ : constellations mythologiques et cynégétiques dans Titus Andronicus et Thomas of Woodstock by Agnès Lafont

“…An analysis of the proper / improper reinterpretations of this classical myth within the performance text of these two tragedies allows us to draw a new portrait of the once virtuous and amiable deity that presided over amorous love sonnet sequences of the period – Delia by Samuel Daniel (1592) and Diana by Henry Constable (1594).…”
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