Application de la méthode QuickScan aux biens culturels non muséaux  by Inés Flores-Fernández

“…Using the risk analysis methodology applied in museums, an Excel matrix is used to assign values and assess vulnerability to agents of deterioration, the result of which is to determine the level of risk and whether this methodology is effective in assessing as another agent the ‘cult function’ they perform, which is crucial for this category of property.…”
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Les « coups de foudre » de Jupiter et l’exportation de la religion romaine en Gaule by Nicolas Laubry

“…The presence of this ritual of Roman origin has generally been connected to a supposed pre-Roman lightning cult which would have continued in that way during the Principate, especially in the countryside as a consequence of a form of syncretism favoured by its inhabitants. …”
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An Aesthetic Visualization of Ritual Ordering among the Yoruba Drummer: A Medium of Life Celebration by Olusegun Adebolu Oladosu

“…At the center of this art are the professional drummers with the cult identity of àyàn. The display, ordering and aesthetic of drumming are usually often come with some rituals during passages of life which are frequently unknown to the non-initiates. …”
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REGULATORY ASPECTS OF AGRIBUSINESS ENTITIES DEVELOPMENT by I. Papakhchyan, A. Tolmachev

“…The methodical approach of determination of economic eciency of measures of the state it allows to take into account and use in the right direction the factors of inuence of exogenous impacts, which are dicult controlled by business. It is proposed to improve the mechanism of state support, to orient the expenses of budget expenditures on the formation of the nal result. …”
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Simulacre et modernité : l’illusion d’optique dans On the Western Circuit de Thomas Hardy by Catherine Lanone

“…This paper focuses on various visual devices which Thomas Hardy chooses to include in his short stories in order to question the Victorian cult of progress, such as photographs, the Crystal Palace or more unexpectedly the phenakistiscope, which clearly lies behind the obsessional description of the « steam circus » in the short story entitled On the Western Circuit. …”
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Le statut de la sainteté dans les « religions politiques » by Yves Bizeul

“…Because of this, he often becomes the centre of a devotional cult after his death.…”
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THE FOLK BELIEFS IN THE TALE OF KIEU AND THE FUNERAL ORATION TO THE SOULS BY NGUYEN DU by Võ Thị Thùy Dung

“…This article explores the impact of folk beliefs; namely, the cult of nature and religious beliefs that are reflected in “The Tale of Kieu” and “The Funeral Oration to the Souls”. …”
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El Métraux haitiano. La construcción de una etnología religiosa by Fernando Giobellina Brumana

“…This paper highlights the theoretical and methodological innovations of Le vaudou haïtien, and its originality for the study of cults of African origin in the Americas. Métraux achieves several key theoretical and methodological innovations in this book: 1. the search for a kind of ritual syntax; 2. a focus on real practices instead of lettered formations of the cult; 3. an acknowledgement that voodoo is unmistakably Haitian and that its roots are European as much as African; 4. a rejection of the assumption that the Catholicism of voodoo adepts would be mere deception; 5. the identification of a narrative level where stories of the gods’ avatars are replaced by tales of their interventions in the life of humans. …”
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Charles Dickens et le « nouveau pittoresque » by Nathalie Vanfasse

“…The picturesque is an aesthetic ideal which became almost a cult between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. …”
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Nouvelles données sur l’agglomération antique d’Epomanduodurum (Mandeure et Mathay, Doubs) by Philippe Barral, David Billoin, Séverine Blin, Gilles Bossuet, Cédric Cramatte, Catherine Fruchart, Clément Laplaige, Antoine Mamie, Jacques Monnier, Pierre Mougin, Pierre Nouvel, Jean-François Piningre, Matthieu Thivet

“…In this second stage, alongside the ongoing in-depth investigations on cult and monumental area, the PCR (Collective Program Research) team intensified its different studies and researches on the ancient agglomeration and its microregional environment. …”
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The Power of Parody: Went With the Wind (1976), a Film Classic Revisited by The Carol Burnett Show (CBS, 1967-1978) by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…Rather than downplaying the over-romanticized Southern melodrama, the sketch proceeds through further exaggerations and distortions, seeking to shatter the cult text by spoofing, mocking, while paying a humorous homage to the evergreen background text. …”
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Wooden sculpture in Romanesque Iberian Peninsula: a wide and attractive panorama. Lines of research by Jordi Camps i Sòria

“…Other times, the spread of modalities confined to an area might well obey cult and pilgrimage reasons. Not all works, however, strictly follow one modality or another. …”
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MARCION OF SYNOPE’S RELEVANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD VIS-À-VIS RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE by G Andrade

“…In his attempt to cleanse Christianity of its Jewish elements, Marcion set the bases for a critique of the cult to a violent God and the divine inspirations of violence. …”
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L’insaisissable religion des Taïnos. Esquisse d’anthropologie historique by Giuseppe A. Samonà

“…In this article, these observers, who have too often been overlooked by contemporary anthropology, are revisited in an attempt to draw an outline of what might have been the « religious » thought of the Tainos, the primary characteristic of which is believed to be the cult of the zemis. More specifically, the author analyzes the eyewitness accounts of Columbus and Pané and underscores their genuinely ethnological quality, particularly in the case of the latter. …”
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Dasaĩ and dual power among the Yakthumba by Philippe Sagant

“…Dasaĩ is a Yakthumba popular festival. The cult of Durgā legitimates the authority of the political headmen, the subbā, who appeared after the Gurkha conquest (having been delegated by the “kings”, called hang). …”
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Hagiographie liturgique et construction identitaire dans un néo-diocèse (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles). Le Proprium Sanctorum dans les bréviaires des diocèses français créés sous Louis XIV... by Philippe Castagnetti

“…The choice criterions of these saints and the litterary schemas used in matins for the biographical pieces reveal how the Church wants to keep the spirit of Counter Reformation alive by remembering the sacral mission of the king of France, increasing the conversion enterprise of the Huguenots and magnifying the cult of relics. Liturgical hagiography allows the constituting of an official religious memory in the clergy of each diocese and makes the idealization and standardization process of holiness easier. …”
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A transforming body: A post-exilic reading of Psalms 50 and 51 in the light of social norms communicated through the Leviticus sacrificial system and body imagery by L. Sutton

“… Although Psalms 50 and 51 do not share the same superscription (a Psalm of Asaph and a Psalm of David), they do share multiple images relating to the body and the cult. Situated between a collection of Korahite (42-49) and Davidic psalms (51-70[51-72]) in Book II of the Psalter (42- 72), Psalm 50 is considered to be part of the liturgy with a prophetic character. …”
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Les notables voconces au Haut-Empire by Bernard Rémy, Nicolas Mathieu

“…According to their dignitas they can be divided into five different hierarchical groups: honestiores, priests (except flamines and flaminicae of the imperial cult), local honorati, municipal honorati and “imperial” honorati. …”
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The Enigma of the Temple Site and the Word-play ‘Moriah’ by Martin Prudký

“…This study examines the enigmatic name ‘Moriah’, which in the narrative of the patriarch Abraham (Gen 22:1–19) – one of Israel’s primary foundation narratives – describes the sacrificial cult site without precisely locating it. This name is nowhere attested as a primary toponym. …”
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Mobiliary Art Objects from the Koksharovski Kholm Sanctuary by Alexander F. Shorin, Anastasia A. Shorina

“…Some of these artifacts can be considered as cultic ones, because, it is likely that they were used in the rituals held on the sanctuary, which apparently had the status of an interregional cult center.…”
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