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Berndt-Ersöz, Susanne. "Phrygian rock-cut shrines : structure, function, and cult practice /." Leiden : Brill, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb411583744.
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Smith, Justin T. "Cult films and film cults in British cinema 1968-86." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429782.
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Lathrop, Benjamin A. "Cult films and film cults : the evil dead to Titanic /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1090934488.
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Gill, David. "Greek cult tables /." New York ; London : Garland, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35698373x.
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Huard, Warren. "Hero cult in Pausanias." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110538.
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The explicit and implicit definitional criteria of cult heroes as described by Pausanias are examined in an attempt to understand heroes in the terms of ancient Greek religion. The distinctions between gods, heroes, and other mortals are examined. Particular attention is paid to the rituals indicated by the verbs enagizein and thyein with a view towards understanding their role in hero cult. It is found that the sacrifice made to heroes distinguishes the one who sacrifices to them from the one who sacrifices to gods and that hero cult plays an important role in the religious life of the polis through its rituals of purification.Les critères définitionnels des héros de culte, aussi bien implicites qu'explicites, tels qu'ils sont décrits par Pausanias, sont examinés dans une tentative de comprendre les héros du point de vue religieux de la Grèce antique. Les distinctions entre les dieux, les héros, et les autres mortels sont examinés. En particulier, nous nous concentrons sur les verbes enagizein et thyein, indicateurs de rituels, pour mieux comprendre leur rôle dans le culte des héros. Nous trouvons que le sacrifice aux héros distingue ceux qui les font de ceux qui sacrifient aux dieux. À part cela, nous trouvons aussi que le culte des héros est très important dans la vie religieuse de la polis à travers les rituels de purification.
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Currie, Bruno. "Hero cult and Pindar." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340126.
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Léger, Ruth Marie. "Artemis and her cult." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6257/.
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This thesis provides a first attempt to bring together archaeological and literary sources from two main Artemis sanctuaries in the hope of contributing to building a clearer picture of her cult. First Artemis’ character is described as that of a mother of the gods, a goddess of wilderness, animals and hunt; a goddess of birth, infants and children (and young animals); as well as a goddess of youths and marriage:rites of passage. These descriptions are followed by a section that provides an up-to-date account of the archaeological record of the sanctuaries of Artemis Orthia at Sparta and Artemis Ephesia at Ephesus. For comparison with those the site of Athena Alea at Tegea is brought in. These three accounts are a full study of the architectural development and the range of artefacts in different materials. In the analysis, the different characters of Artemis are further explored by looking at the aspects of her cult through the archaeology relating to the cult and the rites of passage taking place at the sites. These rites of passage are reconstructed by using the literary accounts. The conclusion is a description of Artemis and her cult based on the character of this distinctive goddess through archaeological and literary evidence.
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Hallvig, Ylva. "The Bona Dea Cult." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Antikens kultur och samhällsliv, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296621.
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This essay concern the Bona Dea cult and women in the Roman Republic. By using ancient literary sources and inscriptions the different aspects of the cult is examined from a gender and an intersectional perspective. The essay covers the lives and rights of Roman women, their role in religion in general and how they participated in the Bona Dea cult specifically. The aim of the study is to understand the importance of the cult for women, freedmen and slaves, as well as analysing the paradox of letting women participate in rituals and customs otherwise forbidden to them.
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Panda, Shishir Kumar. "Nāga cult in Orissa /." Delhi : B.R. publ, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36991513k.
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Rohdenburg, Rebecca. "Hero cult in Euripides." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024686.
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Joseph, Vinita. "Cult : a composite novel." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47604/.
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Cult (redacted) The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence. Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults. The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic. Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts.
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Alves, Clarice Greco. "TV Cult no Brasil: memória e culto às ficções televisivas em tempos de mídias digitais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27152/tde-13092016-103552/.
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A presente pesquisa tem como o objetivo apresentar parâmetros e avaliações possíveis sobre o conceito de TV cult aplicado às ficções televisivas brasileiras, especialmente às telenovelas. TV cult é uma noção que, com quase nenhuma teoria nacional e pouco consenso entre autores europeus e norte-americanos, refere-se ao caráter específico de determinadas produções ou comportamentos do público. O caráter cult refere-se a obras com alto valor ritual ou nostálgico, de conteúdo inovador ou fora do padrão e/ou a programas ou filmes que angariam fãs devotos e fieis. Para atingir o objetivo, a pesquisa reflete sobre o valor ritualístico e de culto da telenovela e investiga os usos do termo cult nas redes sociais, a partir de tweets, de questionário aplicado nas redes e de grupos focais, a fim de saber quais telenovelas são consideradas cult e por quê. As respostas ao questionário orientam a análise das telenovelas consideradas cult pelo maior número de pessoas e os motivos de terem sido citadas. Para tanto, foram criadas as categorias cult nostálgico, cult estético e cult contemporâneo, a fim de evidenciar os principais elementos que determinam o status de cada obra. O quadro teórico abrange estudos sobre TV cult por autores como Pearson (2004), Abbott (2010) e Hills (2012); estudos sobre comunicação como culto e ritual, especialmente por Carey (1992), Barbosa (2007) e Reis (2012); estudos de memória de Bosi (1987), Nora (1993) e Halbwachs (2006); e estudos de fãs, tanto por autores internacionais como Jenkins (1992), Hills (2009) e Booth (2010) quanto pela emergente teoria nacional com Lopes et. al (2015) e Jacks et. al (2015). Entre os principais resultados, destacamos a possibilidade de diálogo entre os estudos internacionais e os que nascem dentro do contexto televisivo brasileiro; a identificação de ficções consideradas como exemplares de TV cult e, por fim, mas não menos relevante, a crescente importância do senso comum para os estudos dos novos e ampliados conceitos no campo da Comunicação, especialmente pela expansão da cultura da participação que é a marca destes \"tempos de mídias digitais\", a que se refere o título desta tese.This research aims to present the parameters and possible reviews of the concept of cult TV applied to Brazilian television fiction, especially telenovelas. Cult TV is a notion that, with almost no national theory and little consensus among European and North American authors, refers to the specific character of certain products or behaviors of the audience. The cult caracter refers to works with high value of ritual or nostalgia, that has innovative content and / or programs or movies that collect devoted and faithful fans. To achieve its goal, the research reflects on the ritualistic value of cult telenovelas and investigates the uses of the word ,,cult\"in social networks, analysing tweets, the responses to a questionnaire applied online and two focus groups in order to understand which telenovelas are considered cult and why. The responses to the questionnaire guide the analysis of the telenovelas considered cult by the higher number of people and the reasons they have been cited. To this end, categories were created to classify the productions on nostalgic cult, aesthetic cult and contemporary cult, in order to highlight the key elements that determine the status of each telenovela. The theoretical framework includes studies on cult TV by authors such as Pearson (2004), Abbott (2010) and Hills (2012); studies on communication as worship and ritual, especially by Carey (1992), Barbosa (2007) and Reis (2012); Memory studies Bosi (1987), Nora (1993) and Halbwachs (2006); and studies of fans, both by international authors as Jenkins (1992), Hills (2009) and Booth (2010) and the emerging national theory with Lopes et. al (2015) and Jacks et. al (2015). Among the main results, we highlight the possibility of dialogue among international studies and those born in the Brazilian television context; the identification of fictions considered examples of cult TV and, last but not least, the growing importance of common sense to the study of new and complex concepts in the field of communication, especially the expansion of the culture of participation that is the hallmark of these \"digital media\" times, referred to in the title of this thesis.
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Lathrop, Benjamin Alan. "Cult Films and Film Cults: From The Evil Dead to Titanic." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1090934488.
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au, LMcrae@westnet com, and Leanne Helen McRae. "Questions of Popular Cult(ure)." Murdoch University, 2003. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20040428.152619.
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Questions of Popular Cult(ure) works in the uncomfortable and unclear spaces of popular culture. This thesis demonstrates how cult cauterizes ambiguity and functions as a framing agent for unpopular politics in popular culture. In tracking the flows and hesitations in the postwar period through the rise of the New Right and identity politics, this thesis shows how cult contains moving and malleable meanings that maneuver through everyday life. It is a slippery and slight subject that denies coherent categorization in definitional frames.
This thesis negotiates this liminality by tracking broad social shifts in race, class and gender through textualised traces. The complicated concept of cult is activated within a series of case studies. These chapters are linked together to demonstrate the volatile variance of the cult category.
Section one contextualises the terrain of the intellectual work in this thesis. It paints broad brush-strokes of the postwar period, through an animated intersection of politics and popular culture. The first chapter defines the currency of cult in contemporary times. It is devoted to investigating the relationships between colonisation and popular culture. By pondering postcolonialism, this chapter prises open thirdspace to consider how writing and madness performs proximity in the pre and post-colonial world. The maddening of cargo cults by colonisers in Melanesia operates as a metonym for the regulation of marginal modalities of resistance. In popular culture, this trajectory of insane otherness has corroded, with the subversion of cult being appropriated by fan discourses, as worship has become accountable for the mainstream market.
Chapter two unpacks The X-Files as a text tracking the broad changes in politics through popular culture. This innovative text has moved from marginality into the mainstream, mapping meanings through the social landscape. Consciousness and reflexivity in the popular embeds this text in a cult framework, as it demonstrates the movement in meanings and the hegemonic hesitations of the dominant in colonising (and rewriting) the interests of the subordinate as their own.
Section two creates a dialogue between gendered politics and contemporary popular culture. The changes to the consciousness in masculinity and femininity are captured by Tank Girl, Tomb Raider, Henry Rollins and Spike (from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer). These texts perform the wavering popularity of feminism and the ascent of mens studies in intellectual inquiry. Tank Girl articulates unpopular feminist politics through the popular mode of film. The movement to more mainstream feminism is threaded through the third wave embraced by Tomb Raider that reinscribes the popular paradigms of femininity, via colonisation. The computer game discourse permits a pedagogy of power to punctuate Lara Crofts virtual surfaces and shimmer through the past into the present.
Tracking this historical movement, two chapters on masculinity brew the boom in mens studies questioning of manhood. Henry Rollins is a metonym for an excessive and visible masculinity, in an era where men have remained an unmarked centre of society. His place within peripheral punk performance settles his inversionary identity. Spike from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer demonstrates the contradictions in manhood by moving through the masculine hierarchy to deprioritise men in the public sphere. This is a mobile masculinity in a time where changeability has caused a crisis for men. Both these men embody a challenging and confrontational gender politics. Cult contains these characters within different spaces, at varying times and through contradictory politics.
Section three ponders the place and role of politics at its most persistent and relevant. It demonstrates the consequences for social justice in an era of New Right ideologies. The chapter on South Park mobilises Leftist concerns within an overtly Rightist context, and Trainspotting moves through youth politics and acceleration to articulate movement in resistive meanings.
These case studies contemplate the journey of popular culture in the postwar period by returning to the present and to the dominant culture. The colonisation of identity politics by the New Right makes the place of cultural studies as a pedagogic formation - powerfully important. Colonisation of geographical peripheries is brought home to England as the colonisation of the Celtic fringe is interpreted through writing and resistance.
This thesis tracks (and connects) two broad movements - the shifting of political formations and the commodification of popular culture. The disconnecting dialogue between these two streams opens the terrain for cult. In the hesitations that delay their connection, cult is activated to cauterize this disjuncture.
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McRae, Leanne. "Questions of popular cult(ure) /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Thesis Project, 2002. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20040428.152619.
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Chan, Siu-po, and 陳小寳. "Guandi Cult in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38737814.
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McRae, Leanne Helen. "Questions of popular cult(ure)." Thesis, McRae, Leanne Helen (2003) Questions of popular cult(ure). PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/199/.
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Questions of Popular Cult(ure) works in the uncomfortable and unclear spaces of popular culture. This thesis demonstrates how cult cauterizes ambiguity and functions as a framing agent for unpopular politics in popular culture. In tracking the flows and hesitations in the postwar period through the rise of the New Right and identity politics, this thesis shows how cult contains moving and malleable meanings that maneuver through everyday life. It is a slippery and slight subject that denies coherent categorization in definitional frames.
This thesis negotiates this liminality by tracking broad social shifts in race, class and gender through textualised traces. The complicated concept of cult is activated within a series of case studies. These chapters are linked together to demonstrate the volatile variance of the cult category.
Section one contextualises the terrain of the intellectual work in this thesis. It paints broad brush-strokes of the postwar period, through an animated intersection of politics and popular culture. The first chapter defines the currency of cult in contemporary times. It is devoted to investigating the relationships between colonisation and popular culture. By pondering postcolonialism, this chapter prises open thirdspace to consider how writing and madness performs proximity in the pre and post-colonial world. The 'maddening' of cargo cults by colonisers in Melanesia operates as a metonym for the regulation of marginal modalities of resistance. In popular culture, this trajectory of insane otherness has corroded, with the subversion of cult being appropriated by fan discourses, as worship has become 'accountable' for the mainstream market.
Chapter two unpacks The X-Files as a text tracking the broad changes in politics through popular culture. This innovative text has moved from marginality into the mainstream, mapping meanings through the social landscape. Consciousness and reflexivity in the popular embeds this text in a cult framework, as it demonstrates the movement in meanings and the hegemonic hesitations of the dominant in colonising (and rewriting) the interests of the subordinate as their own.
Section two creates a dialogue between gendered politics and contemporary popular culture. The changes to the consciousness in masculinity and femininity are captured by Tank Girl, Tomb Raider, Henry Rollins and Spike (from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer). These texts perform the wavering popularity of feminism and the ascent of men's studies in intellectual inquiry. Tank Girl articulates unpopular feminist politics through the popular mode of film. The movement to more mainstream feminism is threaded through the third wave embraced by Tomb Raider that reinscribes the popular paradigms of femininity, via colonisation. The computer game discourse permits a pedagogy of power to punctuate Lara Croft's virtual surfaces and shimmer through the past into the present.
Tracking this historical movement, two chapters on masculinity brew the boom in men's studies' questioning of manhood. Henry Rollins is a metonym for an excessive and visible masculinity, in an era where men have remained an unmarked centre of society. His place within peripheral punk performance settles his inversionary identity. Spike from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer demonstrates the contradictions in manhood by moving through the masculine hierarchy to deprioritise men in the public sphere. This is a mobile masculinity in a time where changeability has caused a 'crisis' for men. Both these men embody a challenging and confrontational gender politics. Cult contains these characters within different spaces, at varying times and through contradictory politics.
Section three ponders the place and role of politics at its most persistent and relevant. It demonstrates the consequences for social justice in an era of New Right ideologies. The chapter on South Park mobilises Leftist concerns within an overtly Rightist context, and Trainspotting moves through youth politics and acceleration to articulate movement in resistive meanings.
These case studies contemplate the journey of popular culture in the postwar period by returning to the present and to the dominant culture. The colonisation of identity politics by the New Right makes the place of cultural studies - as a pedagogic formation - powerfully important. Colonisation of geographical peripheries is brought home to England as the colonisation of the Celtic fringe is interpreted through writing and resistance.
This thesis tracks (and connects) two broad movements - the shifting of political formations and the commodification of popular culture. The disconnecting dialogue between these two streams opens the terrain for cult. In the hesitations that delay their connection, cult is activated to cauterize this disjuncture.
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McRae, Leanne Helen. "Questions of popular cult(ure)." McRae, Leanne Helen (2003) Questions of popular cult(ure). PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/199/.
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Questions of Popular Cult(ure) works in the uncomfortable and unclear spaces of popular culture. This thesis demonstrates how cult cauterizes ambiguity and functions as a framing agent for unpopular politics in popular culture. In tracking the flows and hesitations in the postwar period through the rise of the New Right and identity politics, this thesis shows how cult contains moving and malleable meanings that maneuver through everyday life. It is a slippery and slight subject that denies coherent categorization in definitional frames.
This thesis negotiates this liminality by tracking broad social shifts in race, class and gender through textualised traces. The complicated concept of cult is activated within a series of case studies. These chapters are linked together to demonstrate the volatile variance of the cult category.
Section one contextualises the terrain of the intellectual work in this thesis. It paints broad brush-strokes of the postwar period, through an animated intersection of politics and popular culture. The first chapter defines the currency of cult in contemporary times. It is devoted to investigating the relationships between colonisation and popular culture. By pondering postcolonialism, this chapter prises open thirdspace to consider how writing and madness performs proximity in the pre and post-colonial world. The 'maddening' of cargo cults by colonisers in Melanesia operates as a metonym for the regulation of marginal modalities of resistance. In popular culture, this trajectory of insane otherness has corroded, with the subversion of cult being appropriated by fan discourses, as worship has become 'accountable' for the mainstream market.
Chapter two unpacks The X-Files as a text tracking the broad changes in politics through popular culture. This innovative text has moved from marginality into the mainstream, mapping meanings through the social landscape. Consciousness and reflexivity in the popular embeds this text in a cult framework, as it demonstrates the movement in meanings and the hegemonic hesitations of the dominant in colonising (and rewriting) the interests of the subordinate as their own.
Section two creates a dialogue between gendered politics and contemporary popular culture. The changes to the consciousness in masculinity and femininity are captured by Tank Girl, Tomb Raider, Henry Rollins and Spike (from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer). These texts perform the wavering popularity of feminism and the ascent of men's studies in intellectual inquiry. Tank Girl articulates unpopular feminist politics through the popular mode of film. The movement to more mainstream feminism is threaded through the third wave embraced by Tomb Raider that reinscribes the popular paradigms of femininity, via colonisation. The computer game discourse permits a pedagogy of power to punctuate Lara Croft's virtual surfaces and shimmer through the past into the present.
Tracking this historical movement, two chapters on masculinity brew the boom in men's studies' questioning of manhood. Henry Rollins is a metonym for an excessive and visible masculinity, in an era where men have remained an unmarked centre of society. His place within peripheral punk performance settles his inversionary identity. Spike from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer demonstrates the contradictions in manhood by moving through the masculine hierarchy to deprioritise men in the public sphere. This is a mobile masculinity in a time where changeability has caused a 'crisis' for men. Both these men embody a challenging and confrontational gender politics. Cult contains these characters within different spaces, at varying times and through contradictory politics.
Section three ponders the place and role of politics at its most persistent and relevant. It demonstrates the consequences for social justice in an era of New Right ideologies. The chapter on South Park mobilises Leftist concerns within an overtly Rightist context, and Trainspotting moves through youth politics and acceleration to articulate movement in resistive meanings.
These case studies contemplate the journey of popular culture in the postwar period by returning to the present and to the dominant culture. The colonisation of identity politics by the New Right makes the place of cultural studies - as a pedagogic formation - powerfully important. Colonisation of geographical peripheries is brought home to England as the colonisation of the Celtic fringe is interpreted through writing and resistance.
This thesis tracks (and connects) two broad movements - the shifting of political formations and the commodification of popular culture. The disconnecting dialogue between these two streams opens the terrain for cult. In the hesitations that delay their connection, cult is activated to cauterize this disjuncture.
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Brondin, Giulia <1988>. "La pellicola "maudit" di Tod Browning. Freaks: da cut movie a cult movie." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/3196.
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Partendo da una breve storia del mostro e della sua immagine dall'antichità al Novecento, la tesi vuole analizzare le dinamiche che hanno caratterizzato la storia della pellicola "maudit" Freaks di Tod Browning del 1932: tagliata e censurata dopo la sua prima uscita, in seguito dimenticata (o quasi) per trent'anni, e alla fine riemersa come cult movie e come fenomeno in grado di influenzare l'organizzazione sociale a partire dagli anni Sessanta.
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Adams, Donna L. "Contemplative Cults, Time Spent in a Cult and Dissociation and Depression in Former Members." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1210341428.
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Leisure, Whitlatch Alissa A. "The Impact of Cult Membership on Career Development and Employment." View abstract, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3371488.
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Haase, Ingrid M. "Cult prostitution in the Hebrew Bible?" Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5738.
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Currie, Bruno. "Pindar and the cult of heroes /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40141980p.
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Amanze, James Nathaniel. "The Bimbi cult in southern Malawi." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1986. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29031/.
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The Bimbi cult in Southern Malawi is a territorial cult, one among a number of other regional belief systems among the Chewa of Southern Malawi. As a religious system the Bimbi cult has a distinctive unwritten theology, elaborate liturgical observances, an organized inherited priesthood and a charismatic leader - the Bimbi - from whom the cult's name derives. The thesis begins by examining the life and structural position of the Bimbi who is, in all aspects the most representative and living symbol of the cult as a moral force. It then looks into the question of the call to Bimbiship and the processes of succession events which are believed to be divine acts from beginning to end. This is evidenced by the fact that succession to Bimbiship cuts across the principles of matrilineage of succession to headmanship among the Chewa. The third chapter of the thesis discusses the religious, shrine and political organizations of the cult which give it its territorial nature and enhance both the legitimacy of the Bimbi and the impact of the cult in the region. The fourth, fifth and sixth chapters set forth to answer the questions, "what is the faith and prayer of the cult?" and "how do the followers understand God, the social and the natural orders in the universe?" To this purpose the thesis examines the rituals, prayers, symbolisms, beliefs and practices of those who adhere to the cult. The seventh chapter of the thesis probes into what is remembered of the earlier history of the cult and the role which the title holders of Bimbiship have played for the past hundred years. Finally an attempt has been made to examine the nature of the interaction between the cult on the one hand and Christianity and Islam on the other.
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Miller, Lee S. "Informing Caribbean Christians about the cults and equipping them in their witness to cult members." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Miller, Lee Scott. "Informing Caribbean Christians about the cults and equipping them in their witness to cult members." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Callahan, Brahm. "Living off the dead : the relationship between emperor cult and the cult of the saints in late antiquity." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/965.
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Thesis advisor: Robin FlemingThe cult of the saints and emperor cult both fulfilled similar roles in their respective societies. On the surface they appear to be drastically different institutions. In reality emperor cult and saint cult were similar religious programs, which with careful examination appear to be related. The following work discusses the remarkable similarities between the cult of saints and emperor cult, including their personnel, temples, means of establishment and promotion, and even the role each cult played in the development of their societies. After careful examination of the above mentioned subjects, it is clear that the cult of the saints was largely based on emperor cult, and that despite the drastically different religious atmospheres that each cult was based in, they were similar in all but the most obvious wasy
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Neuland, Dietmar. "Cult in Isaiah an examination of its critique, its modifications, and Yahweh's means to achieve an appropriate cult /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Pakkanen, Petra. "Interpreting early Hellenistic religion : a study based on the mystery cult of Demeter and the cult of Isis /." Helsinki : Suomen Ateenan-instituutin säâtiö, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376437376.
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Morgan, Janett. "Domestic cult in the classical Greek house." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432953.
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Wilson, Susan Elizabeth. "The cult of St John of Beverley." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341592.
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Panou, Eirini. "Aspects of St Anna's cult in Byzantium." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3026/.
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This thesis is the first scholarly attempt to examine the veneration that Mary’s parents – and her mother Anna in particular – enjoyed in Byzantium. The four pillars upon which this examination will be based are topography, texts, relics and iconography. The topography of Constantinople is examined in relation to that of Jerusalem in order to bring to the surface new ideas on the development of Constantinopolitan topography. I also look at the motives behind the construction of the first church dedicated to St Anna in Constantinople and its relation to the topography of the Holy Land. In terms of textual production, I show that until the eighth century Mary’s parents and their story recounted in the second-century apocryphal Protevangelion of James, were intentionally ‘ignored’ because of the non-canonical nature of the text. But from the eighth century onwards the situation dramatically changes with the emergence of Byzantine homilies and Ι will explore the reasons that triggered this change as well as the way Mary’s parents are presented in this genre. Finally, I discuss the problematic around Anna’s relics, her association with iconophilia, demonstration of Orthodoxy, healing and protection of childbirth. Last but not least, the examination of iconographical evidence will uncover the visual impact of Anna’s cult and will complete the study of her veneration in Byzantium.
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Grundy, Stephan Scott. "The cult of Odin : god of death?" Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272994.
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Steinhauer, Julietta. "Cult associations in the post-classical polis." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3654.
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This thesis investigates the emergence, spread and characteristics of voluntary associations in the Greek cities of the Aegean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. It is based on archaeological and epigraphic evidence and contains two case studies on Athens and Delos and three thematic chapters. The first chapter provides an introduction and definition of the subject matter, material, methods and state of research and the leading questions. The second chapter is a case study in which the evidence referring to voluntary associations in post-classical Athens is analysed. Chapter three comprises another case-study, investigating the evidence from Delos. Chapter four investigates the people involved in voluntary associations from founders to benefactors and ordinary members. I compare the evidence from various places and cults, focusing on the origins of people and their choice of deity. The fifth chapter discusses the location of buildings within cities, the kinds of building and facilities used by voluntary associations, and possible patterns in the structure of buildings. In chapter six I analyse the relationship between voluntary associations and civic institutions in the cities of Athens, Delos and Rhodes. Chapter seven provides a conclusion of the thesis. The concept of the voluntary association offered worshippers in Greek poleis an opportunity to establish a religious identity that was characterised by new social spaces, new rituals and new approaches to older rituals that had previously not been provided by the polis religion. The successful establishment of a voluntary association was secured by various factors, yet one main concept seems pre-eminent: by using the pre-existing terminology and categories of civic institutions of each polis for their own purposes, voluntary associations of worshippers paved a way of communicating with both the civic authorities and individual inhabitants. In doing so, they also signalled openness to their environment, an aspect of particular importance to those worshippers who had immigrated to a new city.
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Heger, Paul. "The development of incense cult in Israel." Berlin : W. de Gruyter, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37659342b.
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Silva, Fabiola Alves da. "Revista Cult - leituras do presente (1997-2002)." Florianópolis, SC, 2006. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/89251.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em LiteraturaMade available in DSpace on 2012-10-22T18:37:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 231357.pdf: 3026373 bytes, checksum: fc94bf1fd9736d097a426d2cf6561aa9 (MD5)
Centrando seu foco sobre a revista literária Cult, este trabalho pretende observar como esta publicação contemporânea trava um diálogo com o presente e, particularmente, como o mercado e a literatura se vêem envoltos nesse processo. Para realizar a tarefa, primeiro foram lidos e catalogados os primeiros 56 números da revista (veiculados entre julho de 1997 e março de 2002), cujas informações foram inseridas em um banco de dados informatizado que auxilia, através da obtenção de dados quantitativos e porcentagens, traçar um perfil da publicação. Tendo como base esses dados descritivos, a leitura dos textos desse corpus e o material teórico, partiu-se para uma reflexão mais analítica que foi dividida em três partes: a primeira indicando como os sentidos do nome "cult" determinam a própria configuração da revista, a segunda parte atentando para a convivência de opostos na Cult e a terceira parte constatando a invasão de um fenômeno moderno nas páginas da revista: a inflação da memória. A fragmentação da leitura em várias "leituras" permitiu visualizar por diferentes ângulos a constituição da revista e sua complexa relação com o presente.
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McCarthy, David Shamus. "The CIA & the cult of secrecy." W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623335.
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This dissertation re-conceptualizes the scandals that engulfed the intelligence community in the mid-1970s. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) confronted an unprecedented crisis during these years: the Pike hearings in the House of Representatives, the Church Committee in the Senate, and an executive branch commission led by then Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Historians and political scientists have studied these events before, but I present a nuanced interpretation of the intelligence investigations by placing them in a broader political and cultural context. to fully understand the impact of the so-called "Year of Intelligence," I argue that scholars need to focus on what was happening outside of Congress. The CIA encountered a backlash from both ends of the political spectrum. I provide the first history of Counter-Spy, a left wing magazine founded in 1973 that called for the abolition of covert action. The magazine's editors directly challenged the "culture of secrecy" at the CIA by publishing the names of Agency operatives. at the same time, conservatives embarked on a very different confrontation with the Agency. Like Counter-Spy, they charged that the CIA was keeping secrets from the American people, but their concern was with Agency analysis of the Soviet Union, not covert action. I also examine Hollywood portrayals of the CIA in this tumultuous era; rather than simply responding to the Congressional investigations and the Rockefeller Commission, filmmakers actually anticipated the widespread concerns about the complex relationship between espionage and democracy. The events of the mid-1970s badly tarnished the CIA's image. In response to this rapid decline in popular support, the Agency developed an aggressive public relations campaign designed to restore confidence in government secrecy and covert operations. This dissertation contains the first systematic history of CIA public relations. The public relations staff has consistently portrayed the CIA as the most open intelligence agency in the world, heroically protecting national security while accepting the necessity of Congressional oversight. But despite these public statements, Agency officials worked to revitalize the "culture of secrecy." They have dramatically restricted the ability of former employees to write critically about CIA activities; they have successfully lobbied Congress for exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); and they have repeatedly broken promises to de-classify historical records. Agency officials have been obsessed with protecting their image, and this obsession has frequently undermined historical research. Robert M. Gates launched an openness initiative in February 1992, but the culture at the Agency was not fundamentally changed. In fact, George Tenet shut down the voluntary de-classification program at the CIA in 1998. A key conclusion of this study is that the "culture of secrecy" at the Agency remains firmly entrenched. Since the CIA cannot be reformed from within, I argue that outside intervention is required.
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Mendelkow, Jacoba Lynne. "The Cult of True Motherhood: A Narrative." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/383.
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This thesis consists of five chapters including a traditional introduction and four chapters, which investigate cultural interpretations of motherhood within the genre of memoir and personal essay. In the introduction, I discuss my research as it relates to the larger collection and detail how this work is different from other works within the "mother memoir" genre. Chapters II thru V, then, are all essays which begin to explore the major themes of cultural motherhood: ambivalence, loss, legitimacy, morality, and sin. These chapters, especially chapter II, identify and detail the traits of true motherhood as patience, compassion, sacrifice, and strength.
Chapter V, as the culminating chapter, places me, as writer, in a different position--as a reader--and I begin to understand my history as a parent and as a writer through these texts. Using literature as an area of personal research and recovery, I reconstruct my past as a child and a parent and begin to understand what it means to be a mother--or at least, to better understand the expectations of those who surround me.
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Contursi, Paola. "Defunti, antenati, eroi : fenomenologia del tomb cult." Doctoral thesis, Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10556/2164.
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2013 - 2014This study is specifically concerned with cult activities at Bronze Age tombs. This phenomenon, known as 'tomb cult', is not widespread all over Greece, evidences for definite and intensive worship are meager and some of the materials found in connection with chamber or tholos tombs may also be intrusive. By contrast, cults at Mycenaean tombs have gained attention in the last decades and have been described as an important means of self-definition; hero cult and ancestors cult, also, have been claimed as an interpretation of this kind of worship but no explanation seems to be really exhaustive. The main issue is to investigate the phenomenon with a proper methodology, which is actually lacking. In my research Data have been investigated with a philological and contextual approach, whose main aim was to evaluate the existence of a definite votive character in the depositions at Bronze Age tombs; “cult” and “ritual/sacred” activities have been distinguished from “profane” activities and conclusions have been drawn from both cultual and non-cultual examples. These data did not support the view that Bronze age tombs were object of cult: most often ancient tombs were not worshipped at all or were treated with disrespect. These results suggest the opportunity of a more articulated interpretation of the evidence and a reconsideration of the so-called “tomb cult” at Mycenaean tombs, which seems to be only a modern theoretical model that does not apply to the ancient world. [edited by author]
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Almeida, Alex dos Santos. "Ekthéosis Arsinóes: o culto a Arsinoe II Filadelfo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-24102007-102152/.
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A pesquisa que intitulamos - Ektheósis Arsinoes: o culto de Arsinoe II Filadelfo, tem como objetivo analisar as razões, formato e alcance do culto religioso criado por Ptolomeu II Filadelfo para honrar a sua irmã-esposa. Sabe-se que a visão que os autores antigos e estudiosos modernos têm a respeito da rainha Arsinoe II era controversa no passado e continua a ser nos dias atuais. Da rainha ambiciosa a esposa devotada, poucos documentos existem sobre a sua passagem no Egito na década de 280/270 a.C. quando ela se tornou rainha durante o governo de seu irmão, embora a grande maioria dos testemunhos data do período que se segue à sua morte. Quem foi Arsinoe II Filadelfo? Por que Ptolomeu II estabeleceu um culto em memória de sua irmã-esposa? A importância de Arsinoe II pareceu residir na imagem de devoção popular que se criou em torno de sua pessoa, e que acabou favorecendo e prestigiando a dinastia Lagida. A nossa pesquisa se baseia em primeiro lugar na análise das fontes materiais, mas também das fontes textuais tanto do século III a.C. quanto de séculos posteriores. Partimos de uma exposição do fundo histórico em que se baseou e se constituiu a monarquia ptolomaica. Em seguida, refletimos brevemente sobre o papel e o status das rainhas helenísticas e faraônicas na antiguidade. No último capítulo, nos respaldando nos princípios teóricos e metodológicos da arqueologia do culto propostos por Colin Renfrew, fazemos uma longa digressão acerca das razões que levaram Ptolomeu II a estabelecer um culto para Arsinoe II nas esferas grega e egípcia da população.This research, entitled - Ektheósis Arsinoes: Arsinoe II Philadelphus cult, has as its aim to analyze the reasons, the shape and the diffusion of the religious cult created by Ptolemy II Philadelphus to honor his sister-wife. It is well known that the historical character of Queen Arsinoe II has been controversial since the beginning of studies on Ptolemaic Egypt. From ambitious queen to dedicated wife, there are few documents regarding her life in Egypt in the decade of 280/270 B.C. when she became queen during her brother's reign. The majority of the testimonies are dated to the period after her death. Who was Arsinoe II Philadelphus? Why did Ptolemy II established a cult in memory of his sister-wife? Arsinoe's II importance seems to reside on the image of popular devotion created around her, which ended up favoring and giving prestige to the Lagid dynasty. Our research is based, first of all, on the analysis of material sources, as well as on the written sources both from the 2nd century B.C. and from later centuries. We begin with the discussion of the historical background of the ptolemaic monarchy. Next, we briefly establish some thoughts on the role and the status of the Hellenistic and Pharaonic queens in antiquity. In the last chapter, using Colin Renfrew's theoretical and methodological principles regarding cult archaeology, we make a long digression over the reasons that led Ptolemy II to establish a cult for Arsinoe II both within the Greek and the Egyptian population.
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Drawii, Judy Tatu. "Cult on the rise? Students' perspectives on cult issues in secondary and national high schools in Papua New Guinea." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2239.
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In the last five years there has been a dramatic increase in perceived levels of antisocial behaviour amongst students in Secondary and National High schools in Papua New Guinea. Certain events have caught the public's attention, such as the burning down of school buildings and reports of Satanic worship. Despite widespread concern, there seems to be little understanding of why such problems are occurring and no systematic studies to estimate the exact extent of such behaviours or their underlying cause. The main objective of this study was to collect information about the students' perspectives on the nature and extent of these perceived problems. For ethical reasons, and with regard to ease of access to participants within the time frame of the study, data were collected from the first year student teachers at Madang Teachers' College, Papua New Guinea, who had been Secondary/National High school students only a few months previously. As this was an exploratory investigation, and it was not known whether participants would feel more at ease talking one-on-one with the researcher or in groups, two methodologies were used: focus group discussions and individual interviews. The research was conducted over a period of three weeks in June 2007, and involved a total of 21 participants (three focus groups of five, five and six people respectively, and six individual interviewees, one of whom also joined a group). The main findings to emerge from these discussions were as follows. First, the participants explained their own and other students' behaviour in terms of exploring old and new traditions of school life. Second, although several participants reported knowledge of supernatural practices, many of the group activities described in the discussions were normal activities among peer cliques that provided a sense of belonging and positive support for school achievement. There were no major differences in the stories told by male and female participants, and no obvious differences in the type of information provided under different research conditions. There was some disagreement among participants as to whether or not school authorities should take strong action to eliminate the possibility of cult practices. The findings are interpreted with reference to both Western psychological ideas about the nature of adolescence, and to local traditions, practices, and understandings of lifespan development. In particular, the notion of 'searching for identity' stands out in these accounts of student behaviour. This was an exploratory study and not designed to yield results that provide an overall picture of the situation in the Secondary/National High schools of Papua New Guinea. Nevertheless, participants' reports did relate to events experienced in the majority of PNG Secondary and National High schools, and some recommendations are tentatively offered.
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O'Brien, Emily L. "The cult of St. Edward the Confessor, 1066-1399." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4fd4967c-0cde-4257-841f-16dc36900ce2.
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The purpose of this thesis is to determine the popularity of the cult of Edward the Confessor during the period 1066-1399. The first chapter examines the history behind Edward's canonisation. Two elements make it noteworthy: it was the first papal canonisation of an Englishman, and it required two petitions. Because of the monarchy's prominent role in Edward's canonisation, Chapter Two concentrates on royal patronage of the cult. The major obstacle in attaining a clear understanding of the nature of royal devotion to the cult is the monarchy's use of Westminster Abbey, site of Edward's tomb, for royal ceremonies. Chapter Three charts Westminster Abbey's role in the promotion of the saint and his impact in other English ecclesiastical establishments. After discerning the influence of the cult, the focus shifts to secular and hagiographical documents which presented the king. The importance of the documents is that they record any changes in the perception of Edward. Chapter Four looks at the four main vitae written about Edward and detects a metamorphosis in the presentation, deviating from traditional hagiographical forms to a more fantastic, almost fictional account of the king. Chapter Five examines two other types of sources: works produced or commissioned by those who promoted Edward's sanctity and the chronicles which include Edward's reign in their texts. Both types of sources confirm Chapter Four's conclusion that as time passed, Edward became a mythological figure. Chapter Six compares the presentation of Edward with those of political and royal saints in the mid-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and finds that the king is an unusual picture of both royal and English sanctity. This study of Edward's cult concludes that though it was used for various political ends and some stories of the saint became popular legends, the cult never attained a popular status.
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Burnett, Sarah. "The cult of St Nicholas in medieval Italy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3632/.
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St Nicholas was one of the most popular saints in medieval Italy. His cult attracted the attention of popes, kings and emperors, and his shrine at Bari became an important international pilgrimage destination. This thesis asks how the cult of St Nicholas came to be so widespread and popular in Italy, and why the saint attracted the attention of diverse groups and individuals. This thesis is structured around four chapters. The first demonstrates that through a process of Latinisation the cult of St Nicholas became integrated within Italian literary traditions and within a new spiritual era. Chapter Two reveals that this Latinisation also occurred within the saint’s iconography. Chapters Three and Four are case studies of the cult in Puglia and Venice, locations which claimed possession of the saint’s relics. These case studies show that the general developments that the cult of St Nicholas underwent in Italy, identified in Chapters One and Two, did not apply universally. Instead, the presence of the saint’s relics resulted in a different profile of the saint in Bari and Venice. Through the process of Latinisation, the cult of St Nicholas became updated and remained relevant for its new Italian audience; Chapters Three and Four show alternative ways that the cult of St Nicholas gained widespread popularity. This thesis presents for the first time an iconographical study of St Nicholas in Italian art, which develops existing research of the saint’s Byzantine iconography. Chapter Four presents a profile of the cult of St Nicholas in Venice in the Middle Ages, which is a significant oversight in the literature. The thesis uses a variety of visual and textual sources, in particular fresco and altarpiece representations, archival documents from Venice and Rome (including the Apostolic Visitations), and under-exploited contemporary and antiquarian Venetian sources.
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Beaton, Belinda. "The cult of the First Duke of Wellington." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491583.
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Yu, Li (Lydia). "Mao's cult as an alternative modernity in China." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10497.
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As a consequence of the pervasiveness of traditional culture, Mao’s cult originated from the absolutely anti-religious environment during the early period of modern China. As a response to the modernization in today’s China, Mao’s cult has became a new tradition and evolved into a modern mode of Chinese popular religion, as well as non-religious patriotism, the legitimacy of the CCP, and Chinese national cohesion. That is to say, the tradition itself was created in the context of modernity, and both tradition and modernity possess only a kind of relative connotation. Therefore, the revival of Mao’s cult in today’s China, in the religious form or non-religious form, manifests the traditional Chinese culture persisting in the modern development of China, and thereby constructs a unique Chinese model of modern development --- an alternative modernity in other words. Therefore the western model might not the best choice for non-Western societies. It is impossible for non-western countries to either abandon their traditional culture to develop a whole new modernity, or to develop a homogenous modernity in accordance with western standards. Furthermore, there is no point arguing the superiority of the western model of development, by comparing western modernity with non-western modernity. Alternative modernities will become important phenomena in our developing world.
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Elliss, Robert. "E.T.A. Hoffmann and the cult of natural magic." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288088.
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This thesis has endeavoured to closely examine the personal relationship between Kennedy and Macmillan to determine its impact on the making of Anglo-American foreign policies. The result establishes that their relationship was a complex contribution to the making of Anglo-American foreign policies in the early 1960s, but that it was not a significant factor in the development of those policies. The interpretation of their relationship by scores of writers spanning three decades has largely been responsible for creating and extending the myth of the existence in the early 1960s of a 'Golden era' in Anglo-American relations crowned by the unique and intimate personal relationship between President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan. Indeed, the genuine friendship cultivated between these two men distinguished their relationship from other bilateral relationships they had had with other heads of state and government. Nevertheless, this research which has been based largely on archival material reveals the tangible limits of the influence this famous personal relationship actually had on Anglo-American diplomacy. During the brief era in which the KennedylMacmillan relationship existed, American policy makers had been generally successful at persuading London to accept, albeit with occasional acute reticence, American initiatives and policy goals. Macmillan's leadership was an important factor in this acquiescence but not a crucial one. Seen from the point of view ofWashington and in particular President Kennedy and his White House aides, Prime Minister Macmillan's importance to the United States was focused on his political position as head of the Conservative Party. Kennedy's policy was based on the calculation that Macmillan's political life was essential to the smooth running ofAnglo-American relations. This thesis analyses the decision making process at the executive level in five case studies and firmly establishes that Kennedy was not personally influenced by Macmillan in the shaping of American foreign policy. Likewise, Macmillan's actions were chiefly predicated upon American institutional policies and not on his friendship with Kennedy. The result of this research will show that the personal relationship between John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan as such made no significant impact on the making of Anglo- American foreign policies.
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Moore, Lauren. "Syncretism in the cult of the Syrian goddess." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/62919/.
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In this thesis, I have undertaken to analyse the effect upon the cult of the Syrian goddess of the process of religious syncretism, which occurred through contact between the Aramaic speaking people of the city sacred to the goddess: Hierapolis/ Mnbg, and the peoples of the Hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman Empire. The purpose of my analysis is to examine the extent to which the syncretic developments observed in the cult of the Syrian goddess can be viewed as systematic and whether looking specifically at syncretism in a religion is useful in gaining insights into that religion, where a non-specific approach would not. From previous studies of syncretism in the fields of theology and anthropology, I have established a workable definition of the term religious syncretism and I have combined aspects of structural and cognitive approaches to syncretism. I have focussed on the types of syncretism called association and identification as this yielded the most significant results.
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Hickinbottom, Joseph William. "Takashi Miike and the dynamics of cult authorship." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27275.
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Since the release of 'Audition' in 1999, Takashi Miike has become one of the most visible Japanese directors in Western film culture. This thesis offers an extensive critical history of the reception of Miike and his cinema that has thus far been absent from English-language scholarship on the director. Miike’s work has been defined by his prolific rate of production, his protean approach to genre, and the often “extreme” content of some of his titles, yet the enduring framework through which the filmmaker has been negotiated is as a distinctly singular "cult auteur." Viewed through the specific lens of Miike’s reputation as a cult auteur, this study explores notions of cinematic authorship and of cult film in its examination of the many ways in which the director’s work has been promoted, presented, and understood. Each chapter traces a distinct phase in the development of Miike’s career, centred around the distribution and reception of a number of key releases. In a largely chronological fashion, the chapters map a distinct narrative of the "emergence," the "discovery," the "reverence," and the "internationalisation" of Miike and his cinema, since the very beginning of his filmmaking career. The studies carried out across this thesis demonstrate how Miike’s reception in the West has been significantly shaped by his distinct cult authorship, whilst working towards a definition of the concept of a “cult auteur” that considers its function as an important structuring principle in film culture.
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Nguyen, Daniel Xuan-Vu. "Pauline Freedom: Idolatry and the Vietnamese Ancestor Cult." Trinity Lutheran Seminary / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=trin1455712662.
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McKendry, Rebekah W. "The Implementation and Emulation of Cult Movie Marketing." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4605.
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Cult media is often an area of media studies that is difficult to define. Cult media branches through numerous time periods, genres, and fandom patterns. Cult trends are also constantly evolving over time, changing from word-of-mouth and point-of-sale advertising to social networks and Internet culture. But have the rudimentary basics of how media cults develop and spread their message changed along with the progressing marketing presentation? This dissertation explores the definition of media cults, their history, and marketing styles over time, ultimately exploring the tools utilized to market cult media and examine how these tools are now synthetically applied to many media products in hopes of garnering a passionate cult audience.