This doctoral research thesis aims to provide a comprehensive depiction of contemporary spiritual engagement outside of religious tradition. Existing research is primarily contextualized within the areas of sociology and religious studies, and an in-depth psychological evaluatio…
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O presente Relatório concebe-se como uma componente de avaliação na Unidade Curricular de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, em conformidade com o plano de estudos do curso de Mestrado em Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e de Português e História e Geografia de Portugal no 2.…
Understanding how the Renaissance rhetorical curriculum taught style as behavior makes it possible to unite the study of women writers' identities with formal criticism. Nancy L. Christiansen shows that early modern humanists built on the Isocratean tradition of teaching rhetori…
This thesis identifies key aspects of the nature of holiness present in the life of seventh-century Saint Aldhelm present in three fifteenth-century Middle English versions of versions of the Legenda aurea. From its first inception in thirteenth-century Genoa the Legenda aurea’s…
The evolution of Classical reception studies in recent decades has encouraged a corresponding growth of interest in assessing instances of Herodotean reception from antiquity to the present era. This thesis joins the conversation by exploring how Herodotus’ Historie s has been u…
L’objectif de cette mini-thèse est d’étudier la vie de la femme dans Assèze l’Africaine de Calixthe Beyala. Dans ce roman, Beyala présente le tableau africain d’après les indépendances à travers les peines, les illusions et l’espoir de différents personnages féminins. Le lecteur…
Ad verme geleneği bir milletin kültür ve tarihine ışık tutan en önemli geleneklerden biridir. Yeryüzündeki hemen hemen her millet için kullanılan isimler, o millete ait örf ve geleneklere ayna tutar. Kültür tarihi araştırmaları açısından önemli olan bu çalışmada Selçuklu hanedan…
The word “Dan” is unique in the Hebrew Bible because it alone refers not only to an eponymous ancestor and tribe of Israel (and its territory), but also to a city. In addition, there are important narratives about individual Danites, among them, Samson, and an anonymous blasphem…
This study isolates a set of ideas from the large corpus of information on possession and unmāda in Indian literature and culture. I trace the history of the concept of unmāda from the Āyurvedic texts (ca. 3rd–7th centuries C.E.), where it is an undesirable condition, to the lat…
This dissertation looks at how and why American Indians developed veteran traditions integrating elements of their traditional cultures. Most previous studies of Native experiences in the armed forces focused on general studies on one particular war or centered on elite Native u…
This work focuses on indigenous painting traditions found on ancestral shrines of Yoruba divinities collectively known as orisa in southwestern Nigeria. The devotional activity of orisa painting often enacted in honor and veneration of departed ancestors for healing, empowerment…
Educational research emphasizes the importance of the family's role in the child's educational process. Jewish tradition grants the family a dominant role in passing on Jewish heritage from generation to generation. For Jewish schools to enhance school achievement and teach valu…
Works belonging to a specific astronomical genre of the pre-modern Islamic world called hayʾa often include a section called hayʾat al-arḍ. This section discusses the physical and geographical characteristics of the Earth as a physical, spherical body located at the center of th…
This project examines the changing geography of human-chicken relationships in Toronto, Ontario. Anchoring my project to themes of care and belonging, I first explore the city’s historical live animal debates through textual news media to highlight how arguments about the inhuma…
The purpose of this study is to provide descriptions of conceptions related to creativity in the context of public elementary education in Ontario through an examination of Ontario curriculum documents from 1853 until 2018. Analysis of these documents was informed by a historica…
Bu çalışma kapsamında Burdur Müzesi’nde bulunan Demir Çağı’na ait 294 adet ok ucu incelenmiştir. Çalışma kapsamında incelenen ok uçlarının, 32 alt tipten oluşan tipolojisi oluşturulmuştur. Hazırlanan yeni tipoloji sayesinde, ok uçlarının tiplere ayrımı oldukça basitleştirilmişti…
The Chi-Rho (☧), or Christian monogram, is one of the most common religious symbols in Christian art. Traditional archaeology has considered the presence of a chi-rho to be an indicator of a Christian artifact, as a result of a long-standing association with the figure of Christ…
Understanding conflict behavior is crucial in the field of Conflict Studies. Research on conflictrelated behavior suggests that among other factors, individual identity is related to conflict behavior. However, hardly any literature can be found investigating this relation. Sinc…