The extraordinariness of blood writings lies in the use of blood, with all its social and religious associations, as the medium. In ancient China, blood was considered a vital fluid that had the power to give life. Red, in the correlative taxonomy ofyin陰 andyang陽, symbolizes theyangaspect...
While Romanticism as a social and cultural movement is sometimes (or often?) viewed historically as a non-rational or irrational or even supra-rational reaction to ideas about reason and science prominent in theEuropean Enlightenment, looking back it seems, to me at least, to be in some respec...
In fundamentalist religious experiences, individuals are enclosed around themselves, making it impossible for any possibility of openness to the other (Rocha2014). There is no room for difference, for the strange. The forged community requires loyalty to cults, ideas, rites, and speeches, which can...
While Romanticism as a social and cultural movement is sometimes (or often?) viewed historically as a non-rational or irrational or even supra-rational reaction to ideas about reason and science prominent in theEuropean Enlightenment, looking back it seems, to me at least, to be in some respec...
State Assemblyman Edson Portilho introduced such a bill, which simply stated, “this prohibition shall not include the free exercise of the cults and liturgies of religions of African origin” (Lei No. 12.131 2004; Oro 2006, p. 2) The proposal of this amendment began a debate about animal ...