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While the Scandinavian branch emphasizes pantheist spirituality rooted in medieval and contemporary Scandinavian folklore, the American branch postulates a " native religion of the peoples of Northern Europe " reaching back into the paleolithic.
Latour suggests that about 90 % of contemporary social criticism in academia displays one of two approaches which he terms “ the fact position and the fairy position .” ( p. 237 ) The fact position is anti-fetishist, arguing that “ objects of belief ” ( e. g., religion, arts ) are merely concepts onto which power is projected ; the “ fairy position ” argues that individuals are dominated, often covertly and without their awareness, by external forces ( e. g., economics, gender ).
Although Jews were heavily taxed, no contemporary authors mention trials or executions based on religious offenses other than those within the Roman religion.
Only when he had mastered Latin did he begin to express himself on major contemporary themes in literature and religion.
Since that time, ADF has developed into one of the world's largest forms of contemporary Druidism practiced as a religion.
Pagan Witchcraft is the largest contemporary pagan religion, having originally developed in the United Kingdom and since spread across the world.
While contemporary biomedicine has distanced itself from its ancient roots in religion and magic, many forms of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine ( CAM ) continue to espouse vitalism in various guises: ' As long as life had its own secret properties, it was possible to have sciences and medicines based on those properties ' ( Grossinger 1980 ).
In a wider sense, extended to contemporary religions, it includes most of the Eastern religions and the indigenous traditions of the Americas, Central Asia, Australia and Africa ; as well as non-Abrahamic folk religion in general.
There are a number of Pagan authors who have examined the relation of the 20th-century movements of polytheistic revival with historical polytheism on one hand and contemporary traditions of indigenous folk religion on the other.
Linguistically, the contemporary connotation of the words socialism and communism accorded with the adherents ' and opponents ' cultural attitude towards religion.
Whatever religious, mystical or spiritual elements were central to Stonehenge, its design includes a celestial observatory function, which might have allowed prediction of eclipse, solstice, equinox and other celestial events important to a contemporary religion.
The contemporary sociology of religion may also encompass the sociology of irreligion ( for instance, in the analysis of secular humanist belief systems ).
Despite the claims of many classical theorists and sociologists immediately after World War II, many contemporary theorists have critiqued secularisation thesis, arguing that religion has continued to play a vital role in the lives of individuals worldwide.
The book claimed to report on the contemporary practice of Pagan religious witchcraft in England, which had supposedly survived as an underground religion for centuries.
Cook believes that both contemporary Jews and contemporary Christians need to reexamine the history of early Christianity, and the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect consisting of followers of a Jewish Jesus, to a separate religion often dependent on the tolerance of Rome while proselytizing among Gentiles loyal to the Roman empire, to understand how the story of Jesus came to be recast in an anti-Jewish form as the Gospels took their final form.
Today, as in his own time ( though for different reasons ), Paley is a controversial figure, a lightning rod for both sides in the contemporary " war between science and religion ".
The most devastating critique came from Durkheim ’ s contemporary, Arnold van Gennep, an expert on religion and ritual, and also on Australian belief systems.
This rejection reflects the relatively narrow definition of " religion " ( zongjiao ) in contemporary China.
His contemporary adversary, E. A. Wallis Budge, however, thought Egyptian religion to be primarily henotheistic where all the gods and goddesses were aspects of the God Ra, similar to the devas in Hinduism.
Richard North further notes that unusually, sib is personified here and in lines 2599 to 2661, and suggests they may be references to Sif in Danish religion: " Both instances may indicate that the poet of Beowulf was in a position to imagine a sixth-century Scandinavia on the basis of his knowledge of contemporary Danish legends.
A contemporary history described Rumley in the following way: " There are 400 Negroes ( half the population of Van Buren Township ) as prosperous as their white neighbors and equal to the whites in morals, religion and intelligence.
The pastoral genre is not known for precise verisimilitude, and, like the assortment of mixed references to ancient religion and contemporary religious figures and customs, this possible inaccuracy may have been included to underscore the play's fantastical and chimeric quality.
Together, these collections provide both a contemporary and historical view of African Americans in education, military service, politics, and religion.
According to one scholar, " Eliade may have been the most popular and influential contemporary historian of religion ", but " many, if not most, specialists in anthropology, sociology, and even history of religions have either ignored or quickly dismissed " Eliade's works.

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As such, it can be seen as connecting other disciplinary approaches for investigating ancient astronomy: astroarchaeology ( an obsolete term for studies that draw astronomical information from the alignments of ancient architecture and landscapes ), history of astronomy ( which deals primarily with the written textual evidence ), and ethnoastronomy ( which draws on the ethnohistorical record and contemporary ethnographic studies ).
Duchesne and others have viewed the beginning of the Liber Pontificalis up until the biographies of Pope Felix III ( 483 – 492 ) as the work of a single author, who was a contemporary of Pope Anastasius II ( 496-498 ), relying on Catalogus Liberianus, which in turn draws from the papal catalogue of Hippolytus of Rome, and the Leonine Catalogue, which is no longer extant.
Method acting continues to evolve, with many contemporary acting teachers, schools, and colleges teaching an integrated approach that draws from several different schools of thought about acting.
Pericles draws in part on the 14th century Confessio Amantis ( itself a frame story ) by John Gower and Shakespeare has the ghost of Gower " assume man's infirmities " to introduce his work to the contemporary audience and comment on the action of the play.
The popular concert series draws national pop, country, alternative and contemporary music acts.
Alternative Press writer Ryan Downey notes that contemporary psychobilly also draws from other rock genres and subgenres: " Driven by the rhythmic pounding of a stand-up bass, the music swings with the snarl of punk rock while sometimes thrashing alongside speed metal or crashing headlong into country icon Hank Williams.
Zhu graduated from the Affiliated High School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. His contemporary performance art raises questions about moral agendas, and draws an audience through its shock value.
It draws on the contemporary Islamic -- Sufi, specifically — influences present in his contemporary Medieval Spain and also to the Classics ( translated by the school of Hunayn bin Ishaq ).
Her most recent book, Transformatrix, was published in 2000 and is a commentary on contemporary Britain which draws inspiration from popular music forms.
David Bloor draws upon Ludwig Wittgenstein and other contemporary thinkers.
To support her thesis for contemporary societies, she draws heavily from cross-cultural studies.
likewise draws characters of contemporary authors of poor taste.
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The term armet was often applied in contemporary usage to any fully enclosing helmet, however, modern scholarship draws a distinction between the armet and the outwardly similar close helm on the basis of their construction, especially their means of opening to allow them to be worn.
Editors ' own variation of dark indie guitar rock draws on influences from both older and contemporary bands.
In this, Underwood, who had previously engaged in experimental archeology working with bronze artifacts, rejects the archeology community's classification of the bâton percé as a " magic wand ", and draws comparisons between it and more contemporary Eskimo spear throwers.
The Long Fist of contemporary wǔshù draws on Chāquán, " flower fist " Huāquán, Pào Chuí, and " red fist " ( Hóngquán ).
The ceiling draws on contemporary interest in the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum, with plasterwork by Giuseppe Cortese.
Sources differ over the number of years he raided Ethiopia: Francisco Álvares states that his raids began in the reign of Eskender, and lasted 25 years ; however, Beckingham and Huntingford note that the Ethiopian Paris Chronicle, which draws on contemporary Ethiopian records, dates the beginning of these raids to the ascension of Lebna Dengel in 1508.
Miller draws inspiration from a wide range of influences including cinema, contemporary art, mid-20th century cinema, contemporary art, mid-20th century architecture and exotic cultures.
This is the starting point of a complex and somewhat metaphorical argument which draws on the stereotype of the Jew as a financially apt " huckster " and posits a special connection between Judaism as a religion and the economy of contemporary bourgeois society.
In this way, Lee-Hom draws visual and thematic inspiration from The Peony Pavilion in his song, signaling its relevance in contemporary popular culture.

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