Entre os inúmeros personagens criados e eternizados por Eça de Queirós ao longo de sua produção, o diabo talvez seja aquele que menos recebeu atenção das análises críticas voltadas às obras do escritor. Longe de ser uma personagem dita marginal, pois está presente desde os primeiros textos até as obras derradeiras desenvolvidas por Eça, o diabo parece mesmo ter sido preterido por suas figurações quase sempre pequenas e/ou supostamente despretensiosas. Pretendemos neste trabalho volver o olhar para essa personagem na obra de Eça de Queirós, confirmando nossa hipótese de que com poucas, mas sistemáticas aparições, Satanás desempenha um papel fundamental na produção do escritor, especialmente quando ele procura fazer menções a conceitos do individualismo moderno e criticar a Instituição religiosa oficial de Portugal, a Igreja Católica, bem como tudo o que estivesse voltado a ela e à sua atuação no país. Principiamos averiguando quem é Satanás, como este mito floresceu e, principalmente, o papel da Igreja em sua criação, formalização e atualização ao longo dos séculos até nossos dias. Posteriormente, para compreendermos a concepção do diabo que Eça veicula em suas obras, dedicamos atenção ao diabo literário, ou seja, às diversas formas e maneiras pelas quais o demônio figurará na literatura, principalmente por intermédio do mito fáustico e dos sentidos que autores da literatura francesa dos séculos XVIII e XIX, da qual Eça foi leitor, atribuíram-lhe, quase sempre utilizando-o como paladino do pensamento individualista. Ainda, antes de partirmos para nossa leitura crítica, analisaremos o diabo da religiosidade popular portuguesa, o qual parece ter sido também fonte de inspiração para Eça compor seus diabos, devido a uma série de valores controversos agregados à figura demoníaca por essa forma peculiar de viver a religião. Finalmente, na última parte do trabalho, passaremos às análises das figurações do diabo em obras das diversas fases da produção do escritor, indo dos textos das Prosas Bárbaras, passando pelos diabos de O Mandarim e A Relíquia até chegarmos aos diabos das Vidas de Santos. Concluiremos nosso trabalho confirmando a hipótese de que o diabo não é somente mais uma personagem secundária menor veiculada por Eça de Queirós, mas sim uma das principais, quando os assuntos desenvolvidos em seus textos foram as apologias voltadas ao individualismo moderno e a permanente crítica direcionada à Instituição religiosa. / Among the innumerous characters created and eternalized by Eça de Queirós all along his production, the devil perhaps is the one who less received attention from the critical analysis of the writers works. Far from being called a marginal character, for it is present since the early texts till the last works developed by Eça, the devil really seems to have been omitted by his mostly small and/or supposedly unpretentious figurations. In this work we intend to turn our eyes to this character in Eça de Queirós work, confirming our hypothesis that with few, but systematic appearances, Satan plays a fundamental role in the writers production, especially when he tries to mention concepts of modern individualism and to criticize the official religious institution of Portugal, the Catholic Church, as well as everything which was related to it and to its actuation in the country. We start by verifying who Satan is, how this myth has blossomed, and mainly, the role of the church in his creation, formalization and actuation all along the centuries until nowadays. Subsequently, to comprehend the conception of the devil that Eça conducts in his works, we dedicate our attention to the literary devil, or else, to the several forms and ways in which the demon will feature in literature, mainly by intermediate of the Faustian myth and the senses which authors from the French literature in the XVIII and XIX centuries, from which Eça was a reader, attributed to him, mostly using him as a paladin of the individualist thought. Yet, before leaving for our critical reading, we will analyze the devil of the Portuguese popular religiosity, that seems also to have been source of inspiration for Eça to build up his devils, due to a series of controversial values aggregated to the demoniac picture by this peculiar way of living the religion. Finally, in the last part of the work, we will go to the analysis of the devils figurations in the works of the several phases of the writers production, starting with the texts of Prosas Bárbaras, going to the devils of O Mandarim e A Relíquia till we get to the devils of Vidas de Santos. We will conclude our work confirming the hypothesis that the devil is not only another minor secondary character conducted by Eça de Queirós, but one of the main ones, when the subjects developed in his texts were the apologies regarding to the modern individualism and the permanent criticism directed to the Religious Institution.

Pre-existing structural elements can have substantial effects on fracture and fault development in younger strata, especially in areas that undergo significant changes in tectonic setting due to reactivation along older structures. This may affect reservoir permeability, yet remain difficult to detect in subsurface data. The focus of this study centers on two styles of pre-existing structures—Paleozoic thrust belts and Late Triassic rift faults in the Devils River Uplift and Maverick Basin, respectively—which affect the development of faults and fractures in Cretaceous strata. Fault and fracture data were characterized in both the outcrop and within a 3D seismic volume. Furthermore, the role of mechanical stratigraphy on fault and fracture style in both localities was examined. The Pecos River Canyon overlies the Paleozoic Ouachita fold-thrust belt with associated EW and SE-NW trending structures. At the surface, faults are expressed in two predominant orientations (N38E and N70E), which may be predictable angles if the pre-existing structures are reactivated by left lateral oblique slip. Detailed investigation of the fracture development related to these faults was conducted in a dry side canyon along the Pecos River. Mechanical layers were identified and mapped in outcrop to highlight fracture intensity variations between the different layers. The porosity and/or the degree of dolomitization are identified as controls on fracture development, with the lowest strength layer and least fractured being highly dolomitized with the largest porosity of any observed layer in outcrop. Southeast of Lewis Canyon, a 3D seismic of the Maverick Basin reveals linear discontinuities, interpreted as low-offset faults, within the Cretaceous Glen Rose through Austin Chalk that appear similar to those observed in outcrop along the Lower Pecos River. These faults are shown to have an increase in intensity within strata above older Late Triassic-age rift faults. It is proposed that the small faults form during reactivation of the rift faults and exhibit differential degrees of intensity and vertical terminations against six identified mechanical boundaries observed within the 3D seismic volume. / text

Suicide terrorism is characterized by the willingness of physically and psychologically war-trained individuals to die while destroying or attempting to annihilate enemy targets in furtherance of certain political or social objectives. Rooted in the historical, social, and psychological dimensions of international terrorism, suicide terrorism is neither a unique nor a new phenomenon. Its recent resurgence and the extensive media coverage it has received account for the misleading uniqueness of this violent, complex, and adaptive form of terrorism. This qualitative study examines the definitional and rhetorical processes by which suicide terrorism is socially constructed. Using a social constructionist theoretical framework coupled with a symbolic interactionist approach, this multi-case study effectively moves the analysis of suicide bombings beyond essentialist debates on asymmetrical warfare or terrorism and into a more nuanced appreciation of cultural meaning and human interaction. Hence this case study emphasizes how the interpretive understanding of suicide terrorism is associated with a biased representation of events and their alleged causes that is conditioned by deliberate attempts to stigmatize ideological enemies, manipulate public perceptions, and promote certain political interests. The primary research question is: How are socio-political processes, bureaucratic imperatives, and media structures involved in the social construction of suicide terrorism? Secondary research questions focus on determining how suicide terrorism is (a) a political weapon, (b) a communication tool, and (c) a politicized issue that fits into a moral panic framework. Methods used to conduct the analysis include in-depth interviews (phenomenological and elite interviewing) and document analysis (general document review and historical review). Findings highlight the interactions between suicide bombers (as contemporary folk devils), the news and entertainment media, the public, and agents of social control (politicians, lawmakers, law enforcement, and action groups), and their respective roles in the social construction of suicide terrorism. The limitations of the study, its significant theoretical and practical implications, as well as suggestions for future research are discussed.

Entre os inúmeros personagens criados e eternizados por Eça de Queirós ao longo de sua produção, o diabo talvez seja aquele que menos recebeu atenção das análises críticas voltadas às obras do escritor. Longe de ser uma personagem dita marginal, pois está presente desde os primeiros textos até as obras derradeiras desenvolvidas por Eça, o diabo parece mesmo ter sido preterido por suas figurações quase sempre pequenas e/ou supostamente despretensiosas. Pretendemos neste trabalho volver o olhar para essa personagem na obra de Eça de Queirós, confirmando nossa hipótese de que com poucas, mas sistemáticas aparições, Satanás desempenha um papel fundamental na produção do escritor, especialmente quando ele procura fazer menções a conceitos do individualismo moderno e criticar a Instituição religiosa oficial de Portugal, a Igreja Católica, bem como tudo o que estivesse voltado a ela e à sua atuação no país. Principiamos averiguando quem é Satanás, como este mito floresceu e, principalmente, o papel da Igreja em sua criação, formalização e atualização ao longo dos séculos até nossos dias. Posteriormente, para compreendermos a concepção do diabo que Eça veicula em suas obras, dedicamos atenção ao diabo literário, ou seja, às diversas formas e maneiras pelas quais o demônio figurará na literatura, principalmente por intermédio do mito fáustico e dos sentidos que autores da literatura francesa dos séculos XVIII e XIX, da qual Eça foi leitor, atribuíram-lhe, quase sempre utilizando-o como paladino do pensamento individualista. Ainda, antes de partirmos para nossa leitura crítica, analisaremos o diabo da religiosidade popular portuguesa, o qual parece ter sido também fonte de inspiração para Eça compor seus diabos, devido a uma série de valores controversos agregados à figura demoníaca por essa forma peculiar de viver a religião. Finalmente, na última parte do trabalho, passaremos às análises das figurações do diabo em obras das diversas fases da produção do escritor, indo dos textos das Prosas Bárbaras, passando pelos diabos de O Mandarim e A Relíquia até chegarmos aos diabos das Vidas de Santos. Concluiremos nosso trabalho confirmando a hipótese de que o diabo não é somente mais uma personagem secundária menor veiculada por Eça de Queirós, mas sim uma das principais, quando os assuntos desenvolvidos em seus textos foram as apologias voltadas ao individualismo moderno e a permanente crítica direcionada à Instituição religiosa. / Among the innumerous characters created and eternalized by Eça de Queirós all along his production, the devil perhaps is the one who less received attention from the critical analysis of the writers works. Far from being called a marginal character, for it is present since the early texts till the last works developed by Eça, the devil really seems to have been omitted by his mostly small and/or supposedly unpretentious figurations. In this work we intend to turn our eyes to this character in Eça de Queirós work, confirming our hypothesis that with few, but systematic appearances, Satan plays a fundamental role in the writers production, especially when he tries to mention concepts of modern individualism and to criticize the official religious institution of Portugal, the Catholic Church, as well as everything which was related to it and to its actuation in the country. We start by verifying who Satan is, how this myth has blossomed, and mainly, the role of the church in his creation, formalization and actuation all along the centuries until nowadays. Subsequently, to comprehend the conception of the devil that Eça conducts in his works, we dedicate our attention to the literary devil, or else, to the several forms and ways in which the demon will feature in literature, mainly by intermediate of the Faustian myth and the senses which authors from the French literature in the XVIII and XIX centuries, from which Eça was a reader, attributed to him, mostly using him as a paladin of the individualist thought. Yet, before leaving for our critical reading, we will analyze the devil of the Portuguese popular religiosity, that seems also to have been source of inspiration for Eça to build up his devils, due to a series of controversial values aggregated to the demoniac picture by this peculiar way of living the religion. Finally, in the last part of the work, we will go to the analysis of the devils figurations in the works of the several phases of the writers production, starting with the texts of Prosas Bárbaras, going to the devils of O Mandarim e A Relíquia till we get to the devils of Vidas de Santos. We will conclude our work confirming the hypothesis that the devil is not only another minor secondary character conducted by Eça de Queirós, but one of the main ones, when the subjects developed in his texts were the apologies regarding to the modern individualism and the permanent criticism directed to the Religious Institution.

This essay aims to explain the attraction toward the main character Stavrogin that the other characters experience in Dostoevsky's The Possessed, his great novel from 1871. I will mainly employ the terms “orientation” and “disorientation” in my analysis of Stavrogin's power of attraction. The theory used for this reading is principally inspired by Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology – Orientation, Objects, Others (2006), and the meaning I attach to the terms “orientation” and “disorientation” is derived from Ahmed's use of them. Ahmed's queer phenomenology helps us to reflect upon how Stavrogin functions as a point of orientation in the novel. This makes him a demonic influence on the other characters, in the sense that he disorientates them. The Possessed asks us what happens when we “lose our way”, and confusion as well as disorientation is a general theme of the novel. This topic has been raised before, but few have connected the demonic disorientation with the underlying unconventional desires, such as Peter Verchovensky's desire for Stavrogin. In this essay I attempt to show how Stavrogin can be thought of as a “new” orientation for the other characters, and how their following him causes them to follow lines that lead to destruction.

Bear Lodge/Devils Tower National Monument, a spectacular rock formation in northeastern Wyoming, has a multiplicity of meanings, not all of which were fully acknowledged until the 1990s. It is widely known as a geologic wonder, the first national monument, a marker of local and pioneer heritage, and a premier rock climbing area. In the 1980s and ‘90s, however, the National Park Service began to acknowledge that the Tower also holds cultural and historical meaning for the Northern Plains tribes, dating back long before the colonization of the American West. Some of the tribes expressed to the Park Service that they were offended by rock climbers desecrating the Tower, a sacred site, leading the Park Service to seek to compromise between these competing uses of this public land. The controversy over climbing at Bear Lodge/Devils Tower was, and remains, a debate over history, and this thesis examines the historical foundations for the discourses of climbers, local white residents, tribal members, and the Park Service, as these various groups asserted their claims to this public space. This thesis contends that the language used by climbers and local white residents in arguing against the Park Service’s accommodation of tribal cultures and beliefs appropriated the languages of spirituality and tradition used by the tribes, and sought to delegitimize the tribal claims to the Tower. The Park Service is complicit in controlling the discourses surrounding the Tower and erasing the traditions and complex history of the Northern Plains tribal ties to this sacred place.

This study is one of the responses by the National Park Service to requirements in NAGPRA. The study was commissioned by the NPS Applied Ethnography Program in Washington, D.C., to identify individuals and tribes affiliated with the objects of cultural patrimony, sacred objects, or unassociated funerary objects at five NPS units, review those unit summaries, assist park or center staff in initiating consultation regarding those objects, and conduct a case demonstration consultation for Pipe Spring National Monument. The project was administered under Cooperative Agreement #8100 -1 -0001 between the Western Archeological and Conservation Center, National Park Service and the University of Arizona. While this study was specific to NAGPRA- related issues, the NPS does stipulate in its Management Policies (1988) that consultation with Native Americans will occur with regard to cultural resource issues. NAGPRA is not the only consultation arena the NPS is currently involved in with Native Americans.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jacqueline Izumi Sakamoto.pdf: 487202 bytes, checksum: e5bb43997222b11135bad35c43b1f9fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-05 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Objective: To deal with the philosophy of the religion in Dostoiévski as a testimony, that not only discloses a powerful religious criticism to the modern atheism unfolding, but still, extending our repertoire, for the access to this religious thinker as form to know the religion. Justification: In The Devils, Dostoiévski treats the excesses of education and ethics secularization indicating the holiness category forgetfulness, characterized mainly by the symmetry relation between man and the transcendent, the atheism as an anthropocentric legacy of the modern rational project, produces moral myopia rendering useless the discernment amid the relativity chaos. Hypothesis: The nihilism dynamic, characterizes the visceral movements of human being towards self-destruction, is rooted in what Berdiaev defined as an uncreated liberty, where sprout our Imago Dei, not subject to the norms, that inhabits human soul with the Nothing. We will try to show that the path through Nothing, the reality of the sin and the evil is considered the axis of Dostoiévskis pedagogy, constitutes a critical and religious Paideia. Theoretical-methodological aspects and obtained result: As a procedure this research deepened the sense of the work interpretation, and the characters dynamic, by the analysis of its content a narrow relation and dialogue amongst the prominent theoretical yardsticks for the comprehension of the theological foundations presented in the thought of Dostoiévski. In this sense, the obtained result reached the proposed objective: the clash of modern atheism with the instruments of the philosophy of religion that seeks an extended comprehension as a necessary repertoire for the dialogue between education, religion and moral, a critical Paideia, and still, the up to date depth of this work for the contemporary man / Objetivo: Tratar a filosofia da religião em Dostoiévski como um testemunho, que nos revela não só uma poderosa crítica religiosa aos desdobramentos do ateísmo moderno, mas ainda, ampliando nosso repertório, pelo acesso a este pensador religioso como forma de conhecer a religião. Justificativa: Dostoiévski trata em Os Demônios os excessos da secularização em ética e pedagogia e indica que o esquecimento da categoria de santidade, caracterizada principalmente pela relação de simetria entre o homem e o transcendente, o ateísmo como legado antropocêntrico do projeto racional moderno, produz miopia moral inviabilizando o discernimento em meio ao caos relativista. Hipótese: A dinâmica do niilismo, caracterizando os movimentos viscerais do ser humano em processo de auto-destruição, está enraizado no que Berdiaev definiu como liberdade incriada, de onde brota nossa Imago Dei, não passível às normas, que habita a alma humana com o Nada. Procuraremos demonstrar que o atravessamento deste Nada, o eixo da pedagogia dostoiévskiana que considera a realidade do pecado e do mal, constitui uma Paidéia crítica e religiosa. Aspectos teórico-metodológicos e resultado obtido: Como procedimento esta pesquisa aprofundou a interpretação do sentido da obra, e da dinâmica dos personagens, pela análise de seu conteúdo, em estreita relação e diálogo com os referenciais teóricos relevantes para a compreensão dos fundamentos teológicos presentes no pensamento de Dostoiévski. Neste sentido, o resultado obtido atingiu o objetivo proposto: o enfrentamento do ateísmo moderno com os instrumentos da filosofia da religião, que busca uma compreensão ampliada como repertório necessário para o diálogo entre educação, religião e moral, constitui uma Paidéia crítica, e identificou ainda, a atualidade desta obra para o homem no mundo contemporâneo

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St. John 12:24, used by Dostoyevskij as an epigraph to his last and highly acclaimed novel BpaTbJI KapaMa30BbI (The Brothers Karamazov), served as an inspiration for Andre Gide. The title of the latter's contentious autobiography Si le grain ne meurt (If it die ... ), is part of the same biblical verse. The significance of Dostoyevskij's epigraph and Gide's title are critically examined with regard to ideologies expressed in their literary works. Analogies and contrasts are scrutinised: considerable similarities but more discrepancies are discerned. Intense crises in Dostoyevskij's life led to an upward movement, reflected in his oeuvre, reaching out toward Christ's message as revealed by St. John 12:24. On the other hand, Gide started his career imbued with the above message, but gradually he deviated from it and died an atheist. His fascination with Dostoyevskij prompted him to write a profound biography on the great Russian, containing a perceptive article on The Brothers Karamazov when this novel was still practically unknown in the West. Dostoyevskij's pre-eminence as ideological author, psychologist, philosopher and artist is highlighted while Gide is disclosed as the moralistic immoralist of his time. The thesis suggested here is that Dostoyevskij's ideology of self-abnegation in order to be regenerated into eternal life challenged Gide to reject this concept. Therein lies his paradoxical "adaptation". The purpose is to uncover the religious perceptions in Dostoyevskij's four major novels, to establish that his fictional characters, though never used as mouthpieces for the author, represent his universal philosophy and transmit the author's quest for truth to the reader, and finally to examine Gide's reaction to Dostoyevskij's influence / Classics & Modern European Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Russian)