The thesis deals with the spiritual dimension of the cult of Divine Mercy in the Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska. The central point of her spirituality is Divine Mercy. Discovering of God in this mystery and contemplation of it in everyday life are keys to understanding ways of the apostle of Divine Mercy to Christian perfection. This path leads through the child trust in God and the merciful love of neighbour. The mission of sister Faustina bears respect for Divine Mercy in the new forms that Je

Hugh MacDiarmid est considéré comme le poète écossais le plus important du XXᵉ siècle. Il est surtout célébré pour les poèmes lyriques écrits en scots dans les années Vingt et le poème A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, paru en 1926. Les poèmes des années Trente, pour la plupart issus du projet non publié Mature Art, ainsi que In Memoriam James Joyce (1955), ont rarement suscité le même intérêt de la part des critiques à cause de leur caractère fragmentaire. Pourtant, ils représentent l’aboutissement d’une crise stylistique complexe que cette étude se propose d’analyser à travers la question du lien, en particulier du lien problématique. L’œuvre complète dresse le portrait d’une humanité déchirée par les divisions sociales, la trahison et la mort mais évoque aussi une perte, une perte fondamentale et fondatrice de la modernité : la perte de l’altérité transcendante désignée par la figure de Dieu. Une analyse diachronique des poèmes révèle comment l’évolution de l’œuvre poétique de MacDiarmid peut être conçue comme une rupture avec le divin, comme un processus de sécularisation et de déthéologisation. À partir de A Drunk Man, l’instance d’énonciation, les pratiques intertextuelles, et le rythme de l’œuvre se métamorphosent pour permettre l’avènement de listes et de catalogues matérialistes. Grâce à un lexique de l’immanence et grâce à l’imitation de la forme infinie du pibroch, les poèmes dévoilent une philosophie post-chrétienne qui abandonne le principe de fin mais conserve celui de finalité. Les hommes et la poésie demeurent tournés vers une altérité immanente, qu’ils ne peuvent toutefois pas atteindre. Finalement, malgré la souffrance causée par une quête du sens jamais achevée, l’option existentielle du partage dans la nature s’unit au partage que seule l’écriture poétique rend possible, pour inscrire l’œuvre dans la plénitude. / Hugh MacDiarmid is considered the most important Scottish poet of the 20th century. He is mostly celebrated for the Scots lyrics he wrote in the 1920s and his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, published in 1926. Because of their fragmentation, the poems of the Thirties, most of which were part of the unpublished project Mature Art, and In Memoriam James Joyce (1955), have not attracted the same critical attention. However, they represent the culmination of a very complex stylistic crisis that this study offers to analyse thanks to the question of bonds, especially problematic bonds. The poetry portrays humanity torn by social division, treason and death, but it deals with loss too, with a fundamental and founding loss for modern men: the loss of God, the embodiment of transcendent otherness. A diachronic analysis of the poems reveals how the transformation of MacDiarmid’s poetry may be understood as a rupture with the divine and as a process of secularisation. From A Drunk Man, the enunciator, the intertextual methods and the rhythm of the poetry change so as to allow the emergence of materialist lists and catalogues. Thanks to immanent terms and to the imitation of the infinite form of the pibroch, the poems display a post-Christian philosophy that abandons the concept of ending but retains that of end (aim). Humanity and poetry are still turned towards an immanent form of otherness, though one which they cannot reach. Finally, despite the pain caused by a never-ending quest for meaning, poetic writing makes serenity possible through the appearance of a vital existential option: sharing.

O plano deste estudo se caracteriza por entender a relação entre lei divina e lei humana concebida por Agostinho no L. I de O Live-Arbítrio e no L. XIX de A Cidade de Deus. Assim almejamos analisar primeiramente a relação entra as duas leis no L. I do diálogo e posteriormente confrontá-la com a análise retirada da Cidade de Deus, verificando as possíveis implicações de uma reformulação no entendimento da política para Agostinho. Desse modo, pretendemos evidenciar como Agostinho reformulou seu pensamento sobre as duas leis e mostrar as conseqüências de tal mudança em noções como justiça, paz, Estado, guerra e escravidão / The purpose of this study is defined by understanding the relationship between divine law and human law conceived by Augustine in On Free Choice of the Will, book I, and The City of God, book XIX. Thus, we aim first to analyse the relation among the two laws in the dialogue, then comparing it with the analysis from The City of God by checking possible implications of a reformulation in the understanding of politics for Augustine. As such, we intend to show how Augustine reformulated his thought about the two laws and the consequences of such a change in notions as justice, peace, State, war and slavery

As citações, alusões e referências à Divina comédia, de Dante Alighieri, começam a aparecer em quantidade e com vigor na obra de Machado de Assis na década de 1870. Estão em todos os gêneros, da poesia à crítica, da crônica à prosa de ficção, demonstrando a forte impressão que a obra provocou no escritor brasileiro. Esta tese trata das referências dantianas na obra de Machado de 1873 a 1881, começando em Americanas, passando por Helena e Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, e encerrando n\' \"O alienista\". Com isso, pretende-se mostrar como Machado de Assis estava às voltas com a adequação de temas, estilos, quadros e assuntos do repertório da alta tradição literária, em especial a da Comédia, em sua obra. Experiências que exibem a oscilação que os estilos elevado e baixo, sublime e vulgar sofrem em sua obra, à força de misturas, fusões, imitações e paródias, formas que encontrou para conciliar estes opostos. / Quotations, allusions and references to Dante Alighieri\'s The Divine Comedy started to appear frequently and significantly in the works of Machado de Assis during the 1870\'s. They can be found in all genres Machado worked with, from poetry to criticism, from newspaper columns (crônicas) to prose, evidencing the strong impression that Dante\'s work left in the Brazilian writer. This thesis is about the references to Dante in Machado de Assis\'s works from 1873 to 1881, beginning with Americanas, passing through Helena and Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, and finally \"O alienista\". It aims, accordingly, to demonstrate that Machado de Assis tailored his themes, style, sketches and repertoire to fit in the tradition of high literature, especially that of the Comedy. Such experience shows the oscillation between contrasting styles in Machado\'s work - the elevated and the low, the sublime and the vulgar -, which the author conciliates by employing combinations, fusions, imitations and parodies to bring together such opposite poles.

La divination est à Rome l’instrument central du dialogue avec les dieux, et les sources témoignent de l’attention que les Romains portent aux signes divins sous la République et sous l’Empire, dans la pratique publique comme privée. Or, loin d’être une simple manifestation de crédulité, ou à l’inverse la coquille vide d’un ritualisme formel, la croyance aux signes divins a un caractère rationnel, attesté par l’existence à Rome de savoirs et de procédures divinatoires très élaborés. Cette rationalité est sensible dans un autre champ, qui n’a pas ou peu été exploré : les récits de signes. La narration d’un signe divin, telle qu’on en trouve en abondance chez les historiens impériaux, se présente sous la forme d’une description factuelle et sèche dont l’intérêt paraît limité. L’objectif de ce travail est de montrer au contraire que le récit de signes est une forme très riche qui traduit et met en œuvre la pensée divinatoire des Romains.Un signe divin ne peut être reconnu, interprété, discuté qu’à condition d’avoir été verbalisé. Puisqu’un signe est toujours mis en mots, la posture d’un sénateur devant un prodige qui lui est annoncé, celle d’un simple particulier face à un présage et celle d’un lecteur vis-à-vis du signe qu’il lit ou entend raconter sont similaires : ils reconnaissent et interprètent un signe à partir de sa traduction verbale. Ce que l’étude du récit de signes éclaire alors, ce sont les enjeux de cette mise en mots et de sa réception : sur quels critères un phénomène était-il reconnu à Rome comme un signe ? Quels obstacles rencontrait ensuite son interprétation ? À quelles conditions un signe divin pouvait-il être chargé d’une signification politique, morale, voire d’un sous-texte comique ? Quelles sont enfin les potentialités esthétiques propres au récit de signes ? Il s’agit là de montrer, en déployant ces strates de sens et en dégageant la structure fonctionnelle d’un signe, comment il pouvait être construit et compris – de montrer, autrement dit, pourquoi la divination est un art de lire et d’écrire les signes divins. / In Rome, divination is the essential instrument of the dialogue with the gods, and sources are witness to the attention that the Romans paid to divine signs under the Republic and the Empire, in the public as well as in the private practice. Yet, far from being a simple expression of credulity, or, conversely, the hollow shell of a formal ritualism, the belief in divine signs has a rational nature, as shown by the existence in Rome of extremely elaborate divinatory knowledge and procedures. This rationality is discernible in another field, which has not, or only partially, been explored: tales of signs. The narratives of divine signs, plenty of which can be found in imperial historians’ works, appear as factual and plain descriptions whose interest seems limited. The aim of this dissertation is nonetheless to show that tales of signs are a rich form of expression which translates and implements the Romans’ divinatory thought. A divine sign cannot be recognised, interpreted, discussed unless it has been verbalised. Since a sign is always put into words, the stances of a senator confronted with a heralded wonder, of an average individual faced with an omen and of a reader vis-à-vis a sign which he reads or hears about are similar: they recognise and interpret a sign from its verbal translation. Thus, the study of tales of signs sheds light on what is at stake in this verbalisation and its reception: what criteria allowed for a phenomenon to be recognised as a sign in Rome? What could impede its subsequent interpretation? Under what conditions could a divine sign be charged with political, moral meaning or even a comical subtext? Finally, what are the aesthetic potentialities specific to tales of signs? We intend to show, by unfolding these strata of meaning and by exposing the functional structure of a sign, how it could be constructed and construed – in other words, to show why divination is a craft of reading and writing divine signs.

La réflexion proposée par ce travail s’inscrit dans le contexte d’une ascension symbolique du rock au sein du paysage culturel français, qui peut être rapprochée de celle que connaît le jazz de plus longue date. Ainsi le public français de la pop dite « indépendante » (ou indie pop) a-t-il principalement été recruté au sein d’une population étudiante, ou de jeunes actifs, qui peut être qualifiée de cultivée, partageant une même aspiration à se distinguer du goût le plus commun. Le point de départ de notre questionnement est néanmoins celui d’un hiatus entre ce profil culturel et l’apparente trivialité du genre pop : l’attachement de ce public pour le genre a-t-il quelque rapport avec des dispositions légitimes (en dépit des apparences), ou traduit-il au contraire une franche distance vis-à-vis des traits historiques de la culture légitime ? C’est par le biais d’une étude de cas que cette thèse tente d’apporter des éléments de réponse ; celui d’un magazine, Les Inrockuptibles (l’une des principales instances de légitimation de la pop indépendante en France), et de l’un des groupes britanniques que ce dernier a le plus contribué à promouvoir durant les années quatre-vingt-dix, The Divine Comedy. Au terme de cette étude se dessine un ordre de légitimité hybride, qui tient à la fois de valeurs enracinées dans le monde de l’art légitime et de registres hétérodoxes portés par des instances de consécration concurrentes. Cette étude interroge également la relation entre les représentations ainsi associées à The Divine Comedy et les caractéristiques musicales des opus, esquissant une approche musicologique de l’œuvre à l’aune de sa médiation. / The subject of this work falls into the broader context of a symbolic rise of rock in the French cultural landscape, comparable to the similar longstanding evolution of jazz. The French audience of so-called "independent" pop (or indie pop) has been found mainly within a population of students or young workers one might refer to as "educated", and who have aspired to distinguish themselves from the most common musical tastes. Still, the starting point of our concern is that of a gap between this cultural profile and the apparent triviality of the pop genre: has this audience’s fondness anything to do with legitimate dispositions (despite appearances) or, on the contrary, does it step away from the historical features of "legitimate culture"? This thesis attempts to provide answers through a joint case study of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles (one of the main legitimizing institutions of indie pop in France) and one of the British bands it had most contributed to promoting during the 1990s, The Divine Comedy. What this study ultimately reveals is a hybrid type of legitimacy, which holds both the fundamental values of the art world and the heterodox registers of competing legitimizing institutions. This study also investigates the relation between the representations thus associated with The Divine Comedy and the musical features of the opus, sketching a musicological approach of the musical work through its mediation.

This thesis explores the cult and mythos of the goddess Kali both in her Eastern and Western contexts, comparing and contrasting them in order to gain a better understanding of the Western appropriations of Kali within feminist goddess spirituality. Utilizing a variety of methods, including ethnographic research conducted at Kali temples in California, this research is aimed at providing an entry into the lived contemporary tradition of the Western Kali within goddess spirituality circles, focusing on embodied experience, devotion, ritual, and syncretic practices. Kali, a fierce Indian goddess, is often seen in the Hindu context as a central manifestation of the all encompassing Mother Goddess (Mahadevi, Devi, Shakti, etc), and therefore is a particularly engaging example of contemporary Western appropriation of religious and cultural symbols and narratives. This thesis contributes to understanding Kali in her new North American domain, as well as serving as a case study of the shifting religious landscape in the West.

Ce travail se donne pour objectif d'approfondir le lien existant entre la théologie mystique eckhartienne de la naissance et la phénoménologie de la vie telle qu'elle est développé par Michel Henry. Etant cette vérité éminemment chrétienne, "la naissance de Dieu dans l'âme" constitue l'essence du message évangélique, le fondement des doctrines spirituelles des Pères de l'Eglise ainsi que le soubassement intérieur de toute expérience mystique vivante. Sont analysés dans ce travail plusieurs axes mystiques et phénoménologiques qui se rapportent à la naissance mystique tels que la question du "détachement" eckharien et la libération phénoménologique de l'essence, le problème de la connaissance absolue qui est essentiellement une connaissance filiale, la phénoménologie de l'homme intérieur, la réception de la grâce comprise comme réception de la vie dans le mystère trinitaire, la question du "présent vivant", la phénoménologie de la communauté vivante, la révélation esthétique qui trouve son sens ultime dans la naissance mystique ainsi que la filiation considérée comme le lieu d'une "divination" identique à cette naissance constamment intensifiée dans la vie de Dieu / The goal of this work is to deepen the existing link between Eckhart's mystical theology of birth and phenomenology of life such as it is developed by Michel Henry. Being eminently a Christian truth, "God's birth in the soul" frames the essence of the evangelical message, the foundation of the spiritual doctrines of the Church Fathers as well as the internal basis of any living mystical experience. Several mystical and phenomenological axis related to the mystical birth are analyzed in this work such as the question of Eckhart's "detachement" and the phenomenological liberation of essence, the problem of absolute knowledge which is essentially a filial knowledge, the phenomenology of the inner man, the receptivity of grace understood as the adherence of life in the Trinitarian mystery, the question of the "living present", the phenomenology of the living community, the esthetical revelation which finds its ultimate sense in the mystical birth as well as the filiation considered as the place of a "deification" identical to this birth constantly intensified in God's life

L’ange n’a jamais été aussi présent qu’à l’heure de la modernité, c’est-à-dire à l’époque où le religieux, en son expression, sa forme et sa substance, ses objets, se trouvait remis en question par l’intense réflexion philosophique et par les découvertes scientifiques et techniques issues des Lumières. C’est ce constat fondé sur l’omniprésence des anges tant dans l’art que dans la littérature du dix-neuvième et du vingtième siècles qui nous a conduit à nous poser une question simple : de quoi l’ange fait-il signe ? Que symbolise-t-il ? Quel sens donner à cette présence ?Nous avons décidé, pour le savoir, de remonter aux sources de l’ange afin de mettre au jour les fondements de ce qui, de toute évidence, s’affirme comme l’un des mythes les plus importants de notre imaginaire contemporain. Nous avons également décidé de montrer comment ce passage d’une figure biblique à un mythe profane avait été rendu possible et quels mécanismes cette métamorphose avait empruntés ;nous avons aussi cherché à savoir quels enjeux ce processus mettait en jeu.Cette étude se propose d’étudier les représentations des anges dans l’art et la littérature de 1850 à 1950 afin de découvrir comment l’on passe d’une figure traditionnelle à un véritable mythe moderne. En quoi les représentations modernes de l’ange témoignent-elles des nouveaux rapports qui se tissent au divin ? Il s’agit ensuite d’étudier ses deux symboliques majeures : celle de l’ange inspirateur et celle de l’ange gardien, en mettant au jour les procédés qui permettent à l’ange de devenir un mythe personnel de l’individu et du créateur en particulier. / The angel was never as present as during the modernist era, that is at a time when thereligious figure, in its expression, its form, and even in its substance, its objects, waschallenged by the intense philosophical reflection and by the scientific and technicaldiscoveries stemming from the Enlightenment era. It is this acknowledgement basedon an omnipresence of angels, in nineteenth and twentieth art and literature alike,which led us to ask a simple question – what is the angel a sign of? What does itsymbolize? What meaning may be given its large presence?We have decided, to understand it, to get back to the sources of the angel in order toshed light onto the foundations of that which, quite obviously, establishes itself asone of the most important myths in the present-day imagination. We have alsodecided to show how the mutation from a biblical figure to a profane myth hadmanaged to happen and what were the mechanisms through which thismetamorphosis had taken place; we have also tried to know what was at stake in thisprocess.This study proposes to examine the representations of angels in art and literaturefrom 1850 to 1950 in order to discover how these traditional figures came to becomemodern myths. How can their contemporary representations testify of a newrelationship with the divine ? We'll try to answer this question by studying two majorsymbolics - the inspiring angel and the guardian angel - and by revealing the processin which the angel becomes a personal myth of the individual and especially of thecreator.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-25T13:28:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 marcelolopes.pdf: 1610733 bytes, checksum: 5534313bdc624040940d8a18ca0a8231 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-25T19:33:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 marcelolopes.pdf: 1610733 bytes, checksum: 5534313bdc624040940d8a18ca0a8231 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-25T19:33:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 marcelolopes.pdf: 1610733 bytes, checksum: 5534313bdc624040940d8a18ca0a8231 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-26 / A cura divina é um dos três importantes componentes da tríplice crença e prática pentecostal, juntamente com a glossolalia e o exorcismo. No Brasil, pelo que se sabe, a primeira onda ou pentecostalismo clássico não deu muita ênfase à cura divina, pelo que foi a partir da segunda onda ou deuteropentecostalismo, com a inserção da Igreja do Evangelho Quadrangular no campo religioso brasileiro na década de 1950, que esse carisma ganhou notoriedade pública e centralidade cúltica. Com o surgimento do neopentecostalismo ou pentecostalismo autônomo na década de 1970, a cura divina, já inserida na teologia da prosperidade, alcançou outro patamar, sobretudo com a fundação da Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus, cuja especialidade é a taumaturgia. Assim, a presente dissertação objetiva investigar o fenômeno da cura divina circunscrito à Igreja do Evangelho Quadrangular e à Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida a partir da revisão bibliográfica, da observação participante e de entrevistas semiestruturadas com fiéis de ambas as igrejas. Tomando como base os dados obtidos com tais procedimentos metodológicos, procuramos analisar e discutir a dimensão mítica e ritual da cura divina nestes nichos religiosos. Finalmente, partindo de uma perspectiva comparativa, a presente dissertação analisa alguns aspectos, especialmente os aspectos mítico e ritual, que envolvem a cura divina numa perspectiva diacrônica que culmina no tempo presente, lançando luz sobre este fenômeno religioso que constitui o objeto de pesquisa deste trabalho. / Divine healing is one of the three major components of the triple Pentecostal belief and practice, along with glossolalia and exorcism. In Brazil, for what we know, the first wave or classical Pentecostalism did not give much emphasis on divine healing, so it was from the second wave or deuteropentecostalism, with the insertion of the Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Brazilian religious field in the 1950s, this charisma gained public notoriety and cultic centrality. With the emergence of neopentecostalism or as autonomous pentecostalism in the 1970s, divine healing, already inserted into the theology of prosperity, achieved another level, especially with the founding of the World Church of the Power of God, whose specialty is the thaumaturgy. Thus, this study intends to investigate the phenomenon of divine healing circumscribed to the Church of the Foursquare Gospel and the World Church of the Power of God. The research is developed from the literature review, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with the faithful of both churches. Taking the data obtained with such methodological procedures as a basis, we try to analyze and discuss the mythic and ritual dimension of divine healing in these religious niches. Finally, from a comparative perspective, this dissertation examines some aspects, especially the mythic and ritual aspects, that involve divine healing in a diachronic perspective that culminates in the present time, shedding light on this religious phenomenon that is the research object of this work.