Even though not always enforced, whenever you, as a foreigner living in Peru on a religious visa (without a special authorization to work), want to leave the country for short or extended periods of time, for example, to go on holidays, you must present the so-called “Declaración jurada...
Wine has been around for centuries and has become part of people’s many aspects of life, especially on special occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, and the holidays. Wines are either put on display on the finest wine racks or kept chilled in stylish and durable wine refrigera...
Many holidays are marketed as one or two weeks of sunshine / pool / peace and quiet or [fill in the blank] in a mythical paradise which could be anywhere hot and affordable. But commodifying a place reduces it to its heat, its beach, its clubs. The people who live there become almost...
“Though the whole world turn to coal” — George Herbert’s “Virtue”(2023) [i]Helen Wilcox,The English Poems of George Herbert(Cambridge, UK/NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007), xxi. This extensively footnoted collection is indispensable for navigating Herbert’s 17th-century idioms and di...
It is striking in the extract how this was a group of sisters who were alllonely together.In this case, the sense of mismatch arises from an instance of the incongruence that can be experienced when rituals and traditional holidays are celebrated differently, or when they are uprooted from the...
“Though the whole world turn to coal” — George Herbert’s “Virtue”(2023) [i]Helen Wilcox,The English Poems of George Herbert(Cambridge, UK/NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007), xxi. This extensively footnoted collection is indispensable for navigating Herbert’s 17th-century idioms and di...
While religious tourism, narrowly defined, faces challenges in resurgence, the deep-rooted Christian influence in Nessebar is evident in the transformation of traditional religious celebrations, such as the August 15 Assumption God, into official municipality holidays. There are many legends related to ...
, recognises a range of rights that are by their nature necessarily expressed through corporate vehicles,54 which include the right ‘to establish and maintain appropriate charitable or humanitarian institutions’, the maintenance of places of worship, and the observance of ceremonies and holidays....
Direction 5 outlines the “[promotion of] a culture of accountability, collaboration, diversity, integrity, recognition, resilience, and philanthropy” [96] (p. 8) which includes the development of EDI resources and a “calendar that covers yearly religious holidays and social events relating to ...
They refused to fight, to lie or barter, to silence their testimony, to observe holidays marking some days as holier than others, to participate in “vain traditions” without spiritual purpose (Fox 1952, p. 36), to ornament their homes and meeting houses, and so on. Many of these ...