D’une rive, l’autre by Brigitte Baptandier

“…In the style of a story, this article recounts the journey from one bank to the other (from Taiwan to China) that characterises my ethnological fieldwork. Through the cult of the Lady of Linshui, Linshui furen, and the Daoist ritual tradition of the Lüshan pai, strongly tinged with Tantrism, we skirt along the boundaries between those different sociological, imaginary and symbolic spaces. …”
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Un nouveau dieu provincial chez les Viromanduens : Apollon Vatumarus by Jean-Sébastien Cocu, Stéphane Dubois, Aurélie Rousseau, William Van Andringa

“…The recent excavation of a site at Nesle and Mesnil-Saint-Nicaise, in the eastern part of the Somme district has allowed to identify the remains of a cult place installed in a valley in the beginning of the Roman Empire. …”
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The sequoia files : L’arbre merveilleux by François Brunet

“…The Sequoia Files: the tree of wonder: The cult of the Sierra Nevada giant sequoia, which lasted through the second half of the 19th century, reflected not only its significance as an emblem for American primitivist and nationalist discourse, but also the more popular taste for the marvelous in nature, widely associated with California after 1850. …”
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RESEARCH OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM OF DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INVESTMENT-CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS by V. Opekunov, I. Shherbinin

“…The conducted research has shown that the system for development and realization of investment-construction project is the dicult system that consists of a set of the interconnected components and elements which directly or indirectly exert impact on key indicators of the investment-construction project: terms, cost and quality. …”
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“Who is Afraid of Cesare Brandi?” Personal reflections on the Teoria del restauro by Salvador Muñoz Viñas

“…However, it has shortcomings that are immediately apparent to the reader: firstly, it is extremely obscure; and secondly, it makes contradictory assertions. This makes the near-cult status that it has achieved all the more fascinating. …”
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San la Muerte : un métissage religieux insistant by Maureen Burnot

“…This article proposes to trace the process of configuring the cult of San la Muerte in Argentina from archives, historical sources and ethnographic data. …”
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Esclaves et ministres des Lares dans la société de l’Arles antique by Nicolas Tran

“…BC trading groups’ forms of organisation, the other one with the role of the cult of the Lares in the supervision of the working classes under Augustan rule.…”
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« Entrer dans l’immobilité » : les défunts en position assise du second âge du Fer by Valérie Delattre, Laure Pecqueur

“…The few Latenian individuals found in a sitting position are constantly of concern to the protohistorians and now put forward a synthetic reflection focusing on a new grid of interpretation that does not any more necessarily stigmatize funerary and/or cult discrepancies, which present the human body. …”
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Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond by Simon Deschamps

“…Masonic ritual, therefore, held centre stage in the dramaturgy of colonial power in India, and also played a leading role in fostering the cult of Empire, which emerged in the last decades of the 19th century. …”
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La fabrique des héros. Usages politiques de Francisco Morazán en Amérique Centrale au XXe siècle (1942-1992) by Catherine Lacaze

“…The objective is here to determining to what extent the cult of Morazán became more popular during the XXth century, putting emphasis on a comparative perspective at the Central America scale (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica).…”
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Os convivas da morte no banquete das almas: presença de eguns em um conto de João Antônio by Gilberto Figueiredo Martins

“…In the short story analyzed in this essay - "Eguns" - João Antônio (1937-1996), a writer from São Paulo, presents a narrator who describes in detail an unusual religious celebration held in Bahia, meant for the cult of ances- tors. Contemplative and respectful, it sticks to tell what is allowed by the religious tradition. …”
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De l’os, de l’ennemi et du divin. Réflexions sur quelques pratiques funéraires tupi-guarani by Olivier Allard

“…If the greatest contrast is that between vengeful exo-cannibalism and the cult of bones, there is also, within the former, a culturally determined gradation in the treatment of the bones during consumption of the corpse.…”
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Nauka o szatanie i demonach w ujęciu Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“…He points out that both the pagan temples and other objects of worship as well as the cult associated with them are a dangerous thing and clearly indicate the worship of Satan by pagans. …”
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A kind of magic: a vessel with a unique swastika motif from Jelenia Góra (SW Poland) and early medieval Slavic magical rites by Ewa Lisowska

“…Swastikas on vessel bodies were uncommon in the Early Middle Ages, although throughout the centuries this symbol has been regarded as magical and associated with the solar cult. …”
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Die krag van simbole en rites in die liturgie by C. J. A. de Vos

“… There is an old and dynamic relationship between cult and context. This relationship implies that worship is not experienced in a void. …”
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Quand les morts reviennent… Réflexion sur l’ancestralité chez les Mayas des Basses Terres by Olivier Le Guen

“…The All Souls’ Day, or hanal pixan, seems to be the most significant manifestation of this cult. Our approach will be comparative, through time – using colonial and ethnographical data of the twentieth century, and space – contemplating uses and beliefs of two maya groups, the Yucatec and the Lacandon Maya.…”
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Quelle alternative philosophique et éducative au consumérisme contemporain ? by Etienne Kola

“…The designs of Emmanuel Levinas (1972) and Luc Ferry (1996) transcendence embody pedagogical virtues worthy to revolutionize current attitudes to the cult of materialism. Organized from a documentary operation, the reflection will be a critical analysis of consumerism, before being a plea in favour of the idea of transcendence such as promoted by Levinas and Ferry. …”
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Un autel miniature consacré à une déesse locale chez les Rèmes by Anthony Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, William Van Andringa

“…The discovery context prevents us from identifying the status of this cult place dedicated to Dagiata or Agiata (a domestic temple or a place dedicated to the local genius loci ?)…”
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ANALYSIS OF LEVEL OF THE RUSSIAN DIGITAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT by N. Malyshkin, E. Halimon

“…Particular attention was given to the current dicult situation with «digital inequality» in the subjects of Russian Federation, which can further inhibit the development of the digital economy of the whole country.…”
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Turisti a Lampedusa. Note sul nesso tra mobilità e patrimonio nel Mediterraneo by Francesco Vietti

“…By studying the processes of heritage-making underway, with particular reference to the local cult of Our Lady of Porto Salvo, the aim is to highlight the ways in which migrations have been integrated into the cultural heritage of Lampedusa and have become a constitutive part of its tourist image.…”
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