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On the basis of the archaeological work carried on in the eastern necropolis of Baelo, we present a body of new information bearing on the actual funeral practices typically followed in this necropolis in the high imperial period. Thanks to a painstaking excavation, we are in a position to analyse q...

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Book Review: Crossman J. 2024. Superstition, Management and Organisations: Irrationality, Randomness, and Chaos in Decision Making. Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 267 р. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-59020-7.

Based on a selection of words referring to amulets, talismans, and relics obtained from the CorLexIn corpus, we intend to offer a characterisation and description of their morphology and uses, based mainly on lexicographical sources close to the context of the 17th century, which will also allow to...

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The presented contribution is based onresearch materials of a defended master’s thesis.It deals with the issue of defining the term “superstition”and subsequently presents its own research,which is focused on the superstition thatwarns against buying a stroller before the birth ofa child. The resear...

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This paper attempts to reexamine the notion of superstition in a concrete historical period: from the moment it first appeared in the early Hellenistic period (and named deisidemony, deisidaimonίa) till the Early Roman Empire, when this original meaning started to change radically. As will be shown...

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This article explores thelegaland theologicalcategoriesthat structured theanti-superstition discourseapplied toindigenous cultures byecclesiastical and civilauthoritiesincolonial Spanish Americain the 16thand 17th centuries.The conquest, evangelization and colonization of Americagave riseto variousd...

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This article is an analysis of Mikhail Chulkov’s Dictionary of Russian Superstitions, published in 1782. It places the dictionary in the historical and cultural context of Enlightenment Europe, from which the genre was drawn, and suggests that Chulkov’s use of the genre was part of his own efforts...

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The phenomenon of the miraculous cannot be removed from human existence, no matter how much its presence contradicts the arguments of reason, legislation, or common sense. Its attractiveness for philosophical reflection has been evident since the ancient classics (4th century BC), when the very phen...

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O artigo aborda as artes médicas em uma época em que as terapias se baseavam em conhecimentos empíricos, ditados pela falácia da autoridade de tradições inabaláveis. 'Loucuras' e 'excentricidades' perpetradas pelos artesãos da medicina do Antigo Regime recobram atualidade nos est...

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The relevance of studying the processes of religious consciousness comes from the importance to ensure more coordinated interaction of scientific communities in intercultural communication. The PRC remains one of the key partners of the Russian Federation and partnership requires deeper understandin...

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This article serves as a response to the need of developing a conceptual apparatus that would take into consideration the duality of religion. On the one hand, religion is an institution of a particular denomination and defines itself in terms of self-imposed norms, and on the other hand, religion i...

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Signs ingrained in our everyday lives have already become an integral part of our nature, although insufficiently perceived yet. The purpose of the paper is the research of signs in modern life, in particular, in tourists’ lives. The scientific review of definitions “sign”, “ethnic tourism” is prese...

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The article is devoted to the signs and superstitions collected in 2014-2019 in Vladivostok and stored in the archives of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Far Eastern Federal University. The respondents were representatives of a number of social and professional groups: schoo...

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