Since early times, religion was the axis of life in ancient Egypt. Artistic creations revolved around it. Early Egyptians showed a great deal of respect to religion's views on religious afterlife and resurrection after death. They also cared about all sacred religious rites associated with ...
His teachings started with heavily modified Islamic themes and has since formed a formal document of cult teachings, borrowing from Ancient Egypt, UFO culture, Cryptozoology, and conspiracy theorists. In the 1990s, York built Tama-Re in Georgia. It was a heavily Egyptian-themed compound for his...
we receive ourselves back. This may be counterintuitive to the modernist mindset of autonomous individual self-possession, but it is the essence of communion: “a giving of oneself that can only come from the ongoing and endless reception of the other.”[ix] ...
it is the most luminous and wondrous of liturgies. The morning rites of Easter Sunday celebrate Resurrection, but the Easter Vigil on the night before feels almost like Resurrection itself. When it’s over, you come away a little dazed, wondering “oh what is that beautiful thing that just...
I have noted these troubling ironies in recent years.“Your Celebration is a Sham”—Indepedence Day in an Age of Cruelty(2019) andFourth of July 2020: Last Rites for a Dying America?are the most recent examples. In light of the January 6 insurrection and all the calamitous behavior in ...
Temples,churches,mosques, andsynagoguesserve as places of worship and as shelters for the images, relics, and holy areas of the cult. In the older religions, the temple was not always designed for communal use. Inancient Egyptand India it was considered the residence of the deity, and entra...
The article focuses on the struggle for religious freedom in an age of militant secularism. It informs about the persecution of Christians in Egypt which h... PELL,GEORGE - 《Quadrant Magazine》 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece: Literature, Religion, Society (review)...
The President of Egypt, at Al Azhar University in Cairo,recently did everyone a favor by putting on the table, from inside of the Islamic world itself, the question of its public conduct and inner soul as they relate to the Muslim religion. Does its conduct, as manifest in its deeds, fl...
With the division of society into classes and with the rise of the state, the polytheistic religions of early class society appeared: the Vedic religion of ancient India, Japanese Shin-toism, and the religions of ancient Egypt, Iran (Mazdaism or Zoroastrianism), Greece, and Rome. A special...
Few testimoniescome from ancient Greece.13Classicists listkyrioswithin a large category of epi-thets of power and sovereignty:“master of”the house, and then of the empire,14“the one who has authority over”(e.g. theparthenoi),“lord”or“monarch”likedominusin Latin (Chantraine 2009 [...