Depuis les premières publications d’époque coloniale, qui s’attachaient surtout à en démontrer le caractère folklorique et endémique, le culte des saints au Maghreb a fait l’objet de nombreuses études portant tant sur son origine que sur son évolution diachronique. La première phase de son développement qui va du XIIe au XVe siècle est bien connue. Toutefois, cette dévotion s’attache avant tout aux tombes des figures révérées qui n’ont fait l’objet d’aucune étude portant spécifiquement sur leur matérialité. Cette recherche se propose donc de restituer les étapes de construction de pôles de dévotion autour de ces sépultures saintes dont le paroxysme est atteint au XIVe siècle. Elle s’inscrit dans unedémarche d’archéologie du disparu, et s’attache donc à l’analyse des sources écrites pour tenter d’approcher une réalité physique inaccessible autrement.La première approche est formelle. Il s’agit de comprendre quels sont les aménagements opérés sur les tombes de saints et pour quels usages, dans une démarche chronologique. La formation des sanctuaires est ensuite envisagée dans son contexte social, avant de considérer la façon dont ces tombes s’inscrivent dans un espace donné, et participent même d’une écriture symbolique du territoire de la ville.La mise en place de ces pôles de dévotions funéraires n’est cependant pas un phénomène isolé, puisqu’il peut être constaté à l’échelle du dār al-islām. Le Maghreb s’inscrit donc pleinement dans l’histoire de l’architecture religieuse médiévale du monde musulman. / Since the fi rst publications dated from colonial times, which mostly sought to show its folk and endemic character,the cult of saints in North Africa has been the subject of numerous studies both dealing with its origins as itsdiachronic evolution. The fi rst stage of development that goes from the twelfth to the fi fteenth century is well known.However, this worship is committed to the graves of revered fi gures and there have been no studies specifi cally focusingon their materiality. This research then intends to reconstruct the building stages of real poles of devotion around theholy tombs whose climax is reached during the fourteenth century. This approach is in line with archaeology of the lost,and therefore focuses on the analysis of written sources in order to approach a physical reality, otherwise unattainable.The fi rst step is formal. The point is to understand what is erected over the tombs of the saints and for whatpurposes, in a chronological way. The constitution of shrines is subsequently considered in its social context, beforeanalysing how these burials inscribe themselves in a given space, and even participate in a symbolic writing of the city’sterritory.The set up of these funerary poles of devotion is not an isolated phenomenon, since it can be seen across the dāral-Islām. The Maghreb is therefore fully inscribed in the history of medieval religious architecture of the Muslim world.

My diploma thesis is dedicated to the problem of creating a cult of personality around ice hockey coach Ivan Hlinka. It is focused on two key periods: The first is the victory of the Czech ice hockey team at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in February 1998 , the second is the period after Hlinka's tragic death in August 2004. The aim of the thesis is to analyze how much media influence the creation of a cult of personality by reporting about these two events. Objects of interest of my thesis are the process that puts a coach almost into the role of national hero . The second aspect of the work is the tabloidization of the topic such as a tragic accident and subsequent Hlinka's death. The thesis defines a cult of personality generaly and also from a historical perspective and adds the most famous reprsentative of cult of personality - Soviet dictator Josif Vissarionovich Stalin. In addition, it is dedicated to the cult of personality of athletes in general. This thesis not only presents Ivan Hlinka from a hockey standpoint, but mentions also his personality through a conversation with his longtime friend Josef Beránek sr. The final analysis is devoted to the representation of Ivan Hlinka in two specific print media during the two selected periods.

The nonfiction collection of essays is about childhood and nostalgia, and how all the experiences as a kid make them into whom they will be.

Les représentations des divinités féminines hindoues mises au jour au Bengale, stèles et statues de pierre ou de métal, ont été analysées à partir d'un corpus d'un peu plus de trois cents œuvres que nous avons collectées dans les musées indiens, bangladais et occidentaux, mais aussi dans les catalogues, études et publications diverses. L'étude iconographique sera faite par une mise en perspective des images, de l'épigraphie, de la littérature et des concepts théologiques exprimés dans les textes sacrés. La première partie de cette recherche est une étude chronologique consacrée (1) à l'étude des plaques de terre cuite produites au Bengale entre le IIIᵉ siècle av. notre ère et le IIᵉ après qui représentent divers personnages féminins portant déjà pour certains les caractéristiques iconographiques de la divinité telles qu'on les trouvera sur les images ultérieures, et (2) à l'apparition et au développement de la parèdre de Śiva dans son rôle d'épouse : à partir du IXᵉ siècle et jusqu'au XIIᵉ siècle, c'est en effet la Déesse, śakti du dieu, qui est omniprésente. Les déesses viṣṇuites n'occupent qu'une infime partie du corpus. Dans la deuxième partie, ce sont les formes redoutables de la Déesse śivaïte, Durgā siṃhavāhinī, Mahiṣāsuramardinī et Cāmuṇḍā/Kālī qui sont analysées. Les déesses serpents gardent leur spécificité malgré leur intégration dans le panthéon śivaïte. L'étude stylistique des images permet d'identifier le développement des différentes écoles de la région avec, à partir des XIᵉ et XIIᵉ siècles, une différence notable entre les stèles à la décoration foisonnante du nord-ouest du Bengale et celles dépouillées et empreintes de spiritualité de la région de Dhaka devenue le centre du pouvoir sous les Sena. Cette étude iconographique permet de constater que de la bhakti apparue à l'époque des Épopées, aux cultes tantriques ésotériques les plus transgressifs, le Bengale médiéval a beaucoup développé les cultes śākta en l'honneur de la Déesse Suprême rattachée au panthéon śivaïte : les courants orthodoxes, kaula et Trika non dualistes, et peut-être Nātha ont pu être identifiés. Mais quelle que soit la voie choisie, le but de l'adepte reste le même, la libération, mokṣa, et la fusion avec la Déesse Suprême. / The production in Bengal of stone stelae and stone and metal statues representing Hindu Goddesses, dated from prehistory up to the twelfth century was assembled in a collection of more than three hundred pieces from the museums in India, Bangladesh and Western countries, from catalogues and from other scholar research publications. The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is the analysis of the collection.The first part of this research is a chronological approach. Between the third century B.C. and the second century A.D., there was an important production of terracotta plaques with feminine figurines but it is difficult to say whether they were modeled for decoration or for cult purposes. Later, other than some beautiful terracotta statues representing Mahiṣāsuramardinī and snake goddesses dated around the fifth century, there is a paucity of images until the eighth century. The pieces dating from the ninth up to the twelfth century in the collection are quite all images of the Goddess, Śiva's śakti and wife, and the stelae are quite all narratives and dedicated to orthodox cults.The second part of the research is a more detailed analysis of the fearsome forms of the Goddess: Durgā siṃhavāhinī, Mahiṣāsuramardinī, Cāmuṇḍā; the snake goddesses, although being incorporated within the Śaiva pantheon, keep a specific role.Stylistic elements facilitate the identification of several schools of sculpture, with, by the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a substantial difference between the abundance of decorative elements on the stelae from North-West of Bengal and the bare style of those conceived in the area of Dhaka.From a religious point of view, an evolution from the narrative to the esoteric tantric images shows different types of beliefs and śākta cults: orthodox, non dualist kaula and Trika, and may be Nātha, being understood that whichever way is chosen, the goal remains the same: mokṣa and merge within the Supreme Goddess.

Lʼobjectif de cette étude est de saisir le but dʼun discours hagiographique, en fondant lʼanalyse sur la tradition, lʼauteur, le style et le public de certains textes de l'Antiquité tardive. Les auteurs de ces textes, écrits en prose grecque et illustrés par lʼÉloge de Saint Anastase de Georges de Pisidie, suivaient les préceptes de la rhétorique et réélaboraient les canons de la littérature hagiographique. La thèse est divisée en cinq chapitres. Le premier trace une histoire de la réécriture et montre lʼévolution de la technique paraphrastique entre le sixième et le septième siècle après J.-C. Lʼanalyse se prolonge jusqu'aux soixante-dix Miracles de Cyr et Jean par Sophrone de Jérusalem et à lʼÉloge de Saint Anastase par Georges de Pisidie, une métaphrase des actes du martyre, dont le but était de propager les victoires de lʼEmpire chrétien contre la Perse. Dès le deuxième chapitre, lʼattention se concentre uniquement sur lʼÉloge, dont une première traduction italienne est proposée. Le troisième chapitre traite de la diffusion du culte de Saint Anastase après son martyre, advenu le 22 janvier 628 après J.-C. Le quatrième chapitre se focalise sur la technique utilisée par Georges pour réécrire les actes du martyre de Saint Anastase. Le dernier chapitre analyse la structure de lʼÉloge, en essayant de montrer les points où la prose de Georges suit les préceptes de la rhétorique ancienne tardive. Ce travail espère ainsi souligner lʼimportance de lʼÉloge dans la production panégyrique de Georges, dans le contexte de lʼhistoire littéraire du septième siècle après J.-C. et, plus généralement, de lʼAntiquité tardive. / The aim of the thesis is to understand the purpose of an hagiographic discourse, basing the analysis on the tradition, the author, the style and the public of certain texts. These texts (exemplified by the Encomium of Saint Anastasius by George of Pisidia) were written in Greek prose during the period of Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium. Their authors increasingly tended to follow the precepts of rhetoric and to rework the canons of hagiographic literature. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first traces the history of rewriting and shows the evolution of the paraphrastic technique between the sixth and seventh centuries AD. The analysis extends up to the seventy Miracles of Cyrus and John by Sophronius of Jerusalem and to the Encomium of Saint Anastasius by George of Pisidia, a metaphrase of the acts of martyrdom, whose aim was to propagate the victories of the Christian Empire against Persia. From the second chapter, the attention is focused only on the Encomium, of which is offered a first Italian translation. The third chapter is a discussion on the spread of the cult of Saint Anastasius, after his martyrdom on January 22, 628 AD. The fourth chapter focuses on the technique used by George to rewrite the acts of the martyrdom of Saint Anastasius. The last chapter analyzes the structure of the Encomium, trying to highlight the points where the prose of George seems to follow more closely the dictates of late antique rhetoric. It is hoped with this to emphasize the importance of a text as the Encomium, within the panegyric production of George of Pisidia, but also the literary history of the seventh century AD and, more generally, of Late Antiquity.

Foram identificadas diversas ambigüidades e contradições acerca do significado semântico, e da identificação de imagens tidas como de \"felinos\", no trabalho de diversos pesquisadores da área andina. Essas contradições são constantemente acompanhadas por uma idéia de que as representações de felinos teriam um conjunto de significados comuns, presentes praticamente em todas as culturas pré-colombianas, desde o período pré-formativo. Este trabalho procura questionar essa idéia, demonstrando, através da sociedade mochica, que as representações de felinos que figuram em suas manifestações artístico-religiosas não correspondem a esta idéia de universalidade. Da mesma forma, são discutidas as contradições presentes na bibliografia, a fim de elucidar a condição do felino dentro do âmbito da cultura analisada. Será dada especial atenção ao fato de que, de forma geral, há uma identificação imediata de imagens de \"mamíferos com presas à mostra\", como sendo de felinos. / Several ambiguities and contradictions in relation to the meaning and the identification of images held as \"felines\" have been identified in the works of many researches specialized in the Andean Pre-Columbian cultures. Such contradictions are constantly followed by the concept that all feline representations would carry the same symbolic meanings, regardless of the cultural differences or of the context in which they would be inserted in. This present work challenges this idea by demonstrating, through the analysis of the iconography produced by the mochica culture, that its feline representations do not correspond to such generalizations. An attempt is also made to elucidate the condition of the image of the feline in realm of the culture here analyzed. Special attention will be given to the fact that usually images of other mammals that carry the symbol of the \"cross-fangs\" are mistakenly identified as felines.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-01-24T09:36:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Assarice dos Santos.pdf: 1434727 bytes, checksum: 4730a0dedbbf9e1d836fe58c3addb6cd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-24T09:36:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Assarice dos Santos.pdf: 1434727 bytes, checksum: 4730a0dedbbf9e1d836fe58c3addb6cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / Created in 1945 in Rio Branco (AC) by Daniel Pereira de Mattos (1888-1958), the Barquinha is a highly complex and little studied religious movement that is influenced by black, white and amerindian religious matrices. Through the drinking of the Daime (ayahuasca), rituals of mediumistic trance, intense Christian devotion, altruistic ideals, and an ample marine and esoteric imagery, this ayahuasca line flourished in several ramifications after the death of its founder and, although discreet, has been gaining adherents of diverse brazilian localities and social contexts. The main objective of this work was to identify and present the history; the main religious influences and the fundamental rituals of the Barquinha line. In addition, the dissertation sought to point out and expand the main concepts used by the researchers of this religious movement, in order to foster some reflections previously presented by them. For this, a systematic bibliographical survey was carried out on the Barquinha literature, which contents had been analyzed and organized in four chapters, in the light of the concepts like symbolic anthropology, from Clifford Geertz, and cultural hybridism, from Peter Burke. In addition to updating the literature on the timeline of this religious movement and identifying its main rituals and religious influences, it was possible to recognize that most of the authors who study Barquinha use the concepts of syncretism and eclecticism to define this religious movement. It was possible to note that most of the authors emphasize the use of ayahuasca in their reviews, not reliably highlighting the influence of esotericism on the symbolic constitution of this religious movement. Finally, through the concept of cultural hybridization, it was possible to broaden the understanding of the constituent processes of this religious movement / Criada em 1945 em Rio Branco (AC) por Daniel Pereira de Mattos (1888-1958), a Barquinha é um movimento religioso altamente complexo e pouco estudado que tem influência de matrizes religiosas negras, brancas e ameríndias. Através da beberagem do Daime (ayahuasca), rituais de transe mediúnico, intensa devoção cristã, ideais altruístas, e um amplo imaginário marinho e esotérico, esta linha ayahuasqueira floresceu em diversas ramificações após a morte de seu fundador e, apesar de discreta, vem ganhando adeptos de diversas localidades brasileiras e contextos sociais. O principal objetivo deste trabalho foi identificar e apresentar a história, as principais influências religiosas e os rituais fundamentais da linha da Barquinha. Complementarmente, a dissertação buscou apontar e ampliar os principais conceitos utilizados pelos pesquisadores deste movimento religioso, a fim de fomentar algumas reflexões apresentadas previamente pelos mesmos. Para tal, foi realizado um levantamento bibliográfico sistemático acerca da literatura da Barquinha, cujo conteúdo fora analisado e organizado em quatro capítulos, à luz dos conceitos de antropologia simbólica, de Clifford Geertz, e do hibridismo cultural de Peter Burke. Além de atualizar a literatura acerca da linha do tempo deste movimento religioso e identificar seus principais rituais e influências religiosas, foi possível reconhecer que a maioria dos autores que estudam a Barquinha utilizam os conceitos de sincretismo e ecletismo para definir este movimento religioso. Foi possível notar que a maioria dos autores enfatiza o uso da ayahuasca em suas análises, não destacando, de maneira fidedigna, a influência do esoterismo na constituição simbólica deste movimento religioso. Por fim, através do conceito de hibridização cultural, foi possível ampliar a compreensão dos processos constituintes deste movimento religioso

Thesis (D. Min.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 286-290).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1938. / Bibliography: p. 199-214.

Thesis--Stockholm. / Extra t.p., with thesis statement, inserted. Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 286-289.