Farinelli and the English: “One God” or the Devil? by Thomas McGeary

“…Si celui-ci rencontre un succès retentissant dès son arrivée à Londres, il y est aussi envisagé dans la presse comme un démon et comme la source de tous les maux de la société. …”
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Farinelli and the English: “One God” or the Devil? by Thomas McGeary

“…Si celui-ci rencontre un succès retentissant dès son arrivée à Londres, il y est aussi envisagé dans la presse comme un démon et comme la source de tous les maux de la société. …”
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The Śāriputra and Raudrākṣa – On the Identity of the Bronze Drum in the Dunhuang Murals by Minqian Liao

“…The Dunhuang murals, based on the Xiangmo bianwen 降魔變文 (The Demon Conquering Story), are derived from the Buddhist Xian yu jing 賢愚經 (Sūtra of the Wise and the Foolish) and reflect a complex relationship between scripture, bianwen 變文, and the murals. …”
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Сlinical case of funicular myelosis in combination with a concomitant genetic predisposition to folate cycle disorder by O.D. Shulga, E.A. Popko, A.S. Chabanova, O.G. Kotsiuba, Q. Hussain

“…The aim of the work was to demon­strate a clinical case of funicular myelosis in a young patient in order to improve the diagnostic process, paying attention to the genetic profile and identifying a concomitant predisposition to folate cycle disorder. …”
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Diffeomorphic Registration of Images with Variable Contrast Enhancement by Guillaume Janssens, Laurent Jacques, Jonathan Orban de Xivry, Xavier Geets, Benoit Macq

“…Among the existing methods, nonparametric registration algorithms such as optical flow, or Demons, usually have the advantage of being fast and easy to use. …”
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Onderscheiding der geesten in Marcus by H. Welzen

“…It is possible to read the gospel of Mark as the struggle of Jesus with demons. His death and resurrection is the victory over their uncleanness. …”
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L’hallucination de la connaissance : La Tentation de saint Antoine de Flaubert by Dagmar Stöferle

“…Representing the demons in La Tentation de saint Antoine, Flaubert transforms a Christian conception into a psychological one.  …”
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A Postcolonial Insight into African Onomastics in Europhone Translation: A study of D. O. Fagunwa’s Selected Yoruba Narrative Names by Damola E. Adeyefa

“…Fagunwa’s Yoruba novels – Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀ (2005) and Ìrèké-Oníbùdó (2005) –and their French translations – Le preux chasseur dans la forêt infestée de démons (1989) and La fortune sourit aux audacieux(1989) – by Olaoye Abioye respectively; as well as Louis Camara’s, an Ivorian francophone, translation of Soyinka’s translation The Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1982); originally from Fagunwa’s Ogboju into French-- La Forêt aux Mille Demons (2010). …”
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Orques tolkienesques : entre OGM et androïdes posthumains ? by Éline de Mathuisieulx

“…It seems that the cinematographic adaptations by Peter Jackson, mostly based on John Howe’s illustrations, have brought their demonization to a paroxysm.…”
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“[Obeah] Ọbịa by Igbo Spelling” by Claudette A. Anderson

“… Against the backdrop of the demonization of Africana Religious Traditions (ARTs), peoples of African descent, in shame and ignorance, and seduced by the benefits of a ruthless capitalist Christianity, fail to affirm the value of their ancestral spirituality. …”
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The New York Times on The NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia in 1999 by Savić Aleksandra

“…A negative attitude towards an entire nation, its past, and its main characteristics is used to justify increasingly inhumane targets for NATO bombs. The demonization of Serbs is further reinforced by the use of metaphors that simplify complex historical, political, and ethnic relations, reducing them to a matter of external control. …”
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Resistance and Christian Ethics in Africa by William I. Orbih

“…Colonialism in Africa rewarded individuals who offered no resistance to its ideology and demonized those who did. An effect this continues to have on the African moral imagination is the tendency to idealize compliance over resistance, especially to Western hegemony. …”
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Nauka o szatanie i demonach w ujęciu Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“…The author takes for granted the existence of angels – good, pure spirits, and demons – evil, unclean spirits. 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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CHAOSKAMPF IN THE ORTHODOX BAPTISM RITUAL by Constantin Oancea

“…In the baptismal interpretation of the biblical motif, sea, depths and dragons are figurative names for demons. The liturgical reinterpretation of these biblical references is the preamble of the baptismal exorcisms. …”
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La société civile vue à l’aune de la résilience du système politique algérien by Louisa Dris-Aït Hamadouche

“…Then, it will analyze the governmental containment policy through the juridical locking, a selective demonization and division.…”
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Frontalne i całopostaciowe wizerunki Chrystusa na ikonach bizantyńskich i ruskich. Schemat ikonograficzny by Olga Cyrek

“…In the “Descent into hell” in addition to our first parents there are also angels, prophets, demons and Satan. Pantocrator is presented in the Majesty in the midst of the heavenly powers in a row and on the sides deesis accompanied by Mother of God and John the Baptist who intercede for the people. …”
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Unfinished buildings, a new point of departure. Designing difference for a sustainable future by Maria Luisa Germanà, Francesca Anania

“…The theoretical connotations attributed to them often fluctuate between the mystifying poles of exaltation and demonization; without discussing these, and looking at trends that can be identified in certain works over the last decades, the article aims to contribute to defining an analytical and design-based approach. …”
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INFLUÊNCIA DO TREINAMENTO FÍSICO SOBRE O FATOR DE CRESCIMENTO INSULINO-SÍMILE (IGF-1) EM RATOS MACHOS WISTAR by Ricardo José Gomes, Eliete Luciano, Flávio Henrique Caetano

“…A análise estatística demons­trou diferença significativa (p…”
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Human Diseases and Microbes

“…Such events were either associated with devils, demons, evil spirits or as the curse of God. It was much later that the diseases were associated to various microorganism as protozoans, bacteria and viruses. …”
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Spiritualiteit in het Lucasevangelie: geschiedenis en bevrijding by H. Welzen

“…The last section describes the semantic content of liberation as a theme in the gospel of Luke: it is about liberation from death and threats to life, from illness and demonical possession, from social and economic marginalization, from oppressive sabbatical laws, from everything that obstructs the alliance with God and traps one in the snares of Satan. …”
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