Making It Count: Pilgrimage and the Enumeration of Publics by Simon Coleman

“…Number can be deployed by professional hosts to represent undifferentiated visiting publics in terms of spiritual possibility. In these terms, precision in statistics is likely to be less useful than figures that can be viewed through a distanced lens of potentiality. …”
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Healing Chains, Relationships of Power and Competing Religious Imageries in the Monastery of Saints Kosmas and Damian in Kuklen (Bulgaria) by Magdalena Lubanska

“…In a nutshell, the conflict captures the leading religious imageries propagated by the custodians of the monastery on the one hand, and the spiritual leaders of a new religious movement, so-called Deunovians, on the other. …”
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Interioryzacja misterium paschalnego Chrystusa w celebracji Eucharystii by Stanisław T. Zarzycki

“…The second part of the article, based John Paul II’s teaching on the Eucharist, shows the spiritual attitude towards the paschal mystery of Christ in the celebration of the Eucharist and considers the components of this attitude. …”
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Proces nawrócenia się Abrahama w interpretacji Filona z Aleksandrii by Mateusz Wyrzykowski

“…First, he gave up worshiping the gods, and then he discovered that the world is material and spiritual. Philo emphasizes the long-term nature of the conversion process. …”
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La (re)conversion chrétienne d’Angélica Liddell : une expérience capitale aux répercussions théoriques et esthétiques by Adeline Chainais

“…This study examines the different steps of this conversion and the repercussions of this spiritual process on Angélica Liddell's conception of theatre and on her various poetic and theatrical creations.…”
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Parler de générosité dans la mission contemporaine by Marie-Hélène Robert

“…This reflexion crosses the anthropological, spiritual and biblical dimensions of the notion to answer these questions, beginning by avoiding the pitfalls of generosity. …”
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Tacit knowledge as a gift: sociology of the managerial culture in old China by M. Yu. Zakharov, O. V. Kryshtanovskaya, A. A. Komarova

“…The interpretation of the concept of «knowledge» in spiritual culture of old China has been considered. …”
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PROBLEMS OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR AMONG STUDENTS by N. Gerasimenko

“…The greatest impact, and, above all negative, they have on the development of culture and spiritual life of young people. Currently, there is a tendency to «transform» education into a way of getting diplomas, high-paying job or a delay from the army, in other words, in a terminal value, which largely contributes to the development of specific deviations. …”
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Prawo pacjenta do opieki duszpasterskiej by Aleksandra Klich

“…Based on current legislation, patients have the right to receive pastoral care in accordance with their religious or spiritual beliefs. In the context of health care, these rights include access to chaplains or clergy, the ability to practice religious observances, and the provision of emotional support in accordance with one's beliefs. …”
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Problems of modernization in Japan and intercultural interaction by L. B. Karelova

“…The author also makes an attempt to single out a set of basic ideas of such mechanisms in Japanese spiritual tradition.…”
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Female Authority during the Knights’ Quest ? Recluses in the Queste del Saint Graal by Anastasija Ropa

“…Female recluses were prominent in the medieval spiritual landscapes, but, unlike hermits, these vigorously enclosed women are almost non-existent in medieval romance. …”
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De la campagne écossaise aux milieux aristocratiques londoniens : le déracinement de Thomas Carlyle? by Catherine Heyrendt

“…Yet both he and his wife failed to acquire a true sense of belonging to their new geographical, social and spiritual environment. Their letters to their families—arguably an attempt to fight gradual estrangement—bear witness to their often disapproving yet compelling fascination with London society. …”
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Positive models of suffering and psychiatry by Ahmed Samei Huda

“…In the positive model, suffering can contain an important message of needed change, indicate a response to a psychosocial predicament or be a route to spiritual enlightenment. This approach is briefly critiqued, and circumstances where patients might prefer this approach are described. …”
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Het getuigenis aangaande Jezus een pheumatologische verkenning by L. Floor

“…By explaining the work of the Holy Spirit John indicates that there is a close interaction between the doctrine of Jesus the Son of God and the spiritual life of believers. …”
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The image of women in the dialect dictionaries of the Prizren-Timok dialect area by Ilić Mirjana K.

“…The analysis shows how much the social status of a woman, her role in the social community, differs from that of today, but also points to the former ideal of female physical beauty, spiritual, psychological and moral characteristics.…”
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Pilgrimage and Pilgrim Hierarchies in Vernacular Discourse: Comparative Notes from the Camino de Santiago and Glastonbury by Tiina Sepp

“…This article is based on my fieldwork conducted in two important destinations in the spiritual landscape of European vernacular religion – the Camino de Santiago (pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela) in northern Spain, and Glastonbury in southwest England. …”
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You are what you don’t eat - fasting, ethics, and ethnography, in Serbia and beyond by Lackenby Nicholas

“…Food and fasting generate diverse reflections on the importance of rules, spiritual growth, hypocrisy, and sincerity. Thinking anthropologically, we see that people with range of viewpoints on the Church are in fact united in making ethical evaluations. …”
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Le sainct esprit a yci pourtrait au vif ... Calvin's understanding of the Holy Spirit's modus operandi in the life of believers in the light of the preface to his Commentary on the... by E. Kayayan

“…In the Preface, the Psalms are divinely inspired, life-giving words that enhance the experience of the readers similar to the experience lived and expressed by the authors.The testimonium internum Spiritu Sancti is the core of the Preface inasmuch as expressed by means of a necessary process of anatomy and dissection of all the affections of the soul. …”
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Parental Roles in Management of Pupils Discipline in Selected Batwa Community Primary Schools, Kanungu District. by Babiriisa, Enos

“…Usually, parents are looked at as the first step towards human growth and it is their role to nurture a child into a responsible society member by guidance on how to live with other people, to communicate with others, spiritual support as well as financial support.…”
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Paradigms in theology by W.J. Ouweneel

“… My present starting-point, not worked out here (cf. extensively Ouweneel 1993), is that all scientific activity, even all human action is founded in a central-religious ground-motive (fundamental driving-force of a religious-spiritual nature). It is my view that scientific, including theological activity necessarily demands such a ground-motive, and that every ground-motive roots in the human heart. …”
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