Search results for "Myth"
showing 10 items of 460 documents
Religious Exiting and Social Networks: Computer Simulations of Religious/Secular Pluralism
2021
Statistical models attempting to predict who will disaffiliate from religions have typically accounted for less than 15% of the variation in religious affiliations, suggesting that we have only a partial understanding of this vital social process. Using agent-based simulations in three “artificial societies” (one predominantly religious; one predominantly secular; and one in between), we demonstrate that worldview pluralism within one’s neighborhood and family social networks can be a significant predictor of religious (dis)affiliation but in pluralistic societies worldview diversity is less important and, instead, people move toward worldview neutrality. Our results suggest that there may …
Belief in God, Confidence in the Church and Secularization in Scandinavia
2021
We used the three latest rounds of the religion module of International Social Survey Programme to study secularization in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, focusing on belief in God. We restricted our sample to the affiliated with the majority Protestant churches and the unaffiliated and analyzed the trends toward disaffiliation and disbelief in God. Then, we studied the association between confidence in churches, religious/secular upbringing, and demographic controls with belief in God using multinomial logistic regression models. Our treatment of belief in God as a nominal variable allowed the inclusion of both the element of doubt and different images of God in the analyses. The trends towar…
Modeling the Effects of Religious Belief and Affiliation on Prosociality
2021
To what extent do supernatural beliefs, group affiliation, and social interaction produce values and behaviors that benefit others, i.e., 'prosociality'? Addressing this question involves multiple variables interacting within complex social networks that shape and constrain the beliefs and behaviors of individuals. We examine the relationships among some of these factors utilizing data from the World Values Survey to inform the construction of an Agent-Based Model. The latter was able to identify the conditions under which – and the mechanisms by which – the prosociality of simulated agents was increased or decreased within an “artificial society” designed to reflect real world parameters. …
Joan Roís de Corella, Lamentació de Mirra, de Narciso, de Píramus i Tisbe: edizione critica
2016
Il contributo, che è un’anticipazione parziale dell’edizione critica integrale delle narrazioni mitologiche di Joan Roís de Corella (XV sec.) per Barcino (ENC), nasce dall’esigenza di rivedere la situazione testuale della faula in oggetto (Lamentació de Mirra, de Narciso, de Píramus i Tisbe) e di avanzare, dove necessario, nuove proposte di lettura. Esso consta di due parti, delle quali la prima contiene l’Introduzione, la seconda il Testo con note a piè di pagina, in cui si discutono questioni relative alla constitutio textus, l’Apparato e l’Apparato complementare. Nell’Introduzione si danno informazioni essenziali circa la tradizione manoscritta delle Lamentacions (altrimenti note come Lo…
Èsquil al Curial e Güelfa
2018
Resum: El llibre III de la novel.la pre-renaixentista Curial e Guelfa presenta les característiques d’una prosa deutora en un alt grau de l’humanisme. Elements destacats en són la dicció mitològica, la ubicació de part dels esdeveniments i la imitació de models literaris clàssics. Al present treball mirem d’escatir fins a quin punt la tragèdia d’Èsquil on es representava el judici d’Orestes, les Eumènides, ha pogut esdevenir el model per al judici de Curial al Parnàs, com anys enrera va proposar Patricia Boehne. D’acord amb unes premisses metodològiques diferents de les d’ella, basem les nostres conclusions en les relacions intertextuals establertes entre ambdues obres.
 Paraules clau…
Les fonts clàssiques de Curial e Güelfa
2018
Resum: Curial e Güelfa (Milà-Nàpols, ca. 1445-1448), novel·la cavalleresca escrita en català i atribuïble al gran camarlenc del Nàpols d’Alfons el Magnànim, Enyego d’Àvalos, conté una suggerent càrrega culturalista (mites ovidians tergiversats satíricament; teofanies i decorats neoplatònics; remissions explícites i/o implícites Cèsar, Macrobi, Plató, Apuleu...), que no resulta en absolut supèrflua i prescindible, com argumentà algun crític del segle passat. Al contrari: la manera d’evocar-hi els clàssics i de re-presentar-los no s’explica sense considerar els contactes de l’hipotètic escriptor amb l’humanisme llombard i napolità. D’altra banda, el repertori de clàssics greco-llatins documen…
Dal kētos al sēnmurv? Mutazioni iconografiche e transizioni simboliche del kētos dall’Antichità al Medioevo (secolo XIII)
2016
Using literary and iconographic sources the paper discusses the image of kētos from Antiquity to Middle Ages. The kētos, according with Greek literature, was used in the myths of both Perseus and Andromeda and Heracles and Hesione. The archaic images of the sea-monster are identifiable on Corinthian vases, on which we have only heads of leonine form. From 5th century the classical type of kētos is distinguished from all other Greek sea-monsters by a long neck, fins (also like wings), long muzzle and corrugated upper surface (like a crocodile), and leonine forelegs. Separated from histories of Andromeda and Hesione, the kētos is represented as a mount of marine gods and, especially, Nereides…
De Carthage à la Shoah : tragédie de l’histoire, dignité du théâtre chez René Kalisky
2019
« Peu de gens devineront combien il a fallu être triste pour entreprendre de ressusciter Carthage. »Flaubert. Sur les ruines de Carthage est une pièce de René Kalisky écrite à Berlin en 1979, et dont l’action se situe en 2146 dans une contrée non définie. Au commencement, il y a « sur toute la surface de jeu, des rayonnages de livres, d’archives [...] à plusieurs niveaux », un réchaud à gaz, un évier, un lit et du linge sale en désordre. Koschitzke, historien spécialiste de Carthage,...
Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe: Re-narrating Roman Britannia, De-essentialising European History
2019
Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (2001) contributes to the imaginative disentanglement of the traditional British ethnicity-and-nation nexus and questions the related founding myth of racial purity by featuring the character of Zuleika, a young black woman who is born of Sudanese parents in Roman London. Through the depiction of Zuleika, Evaristo offers a subversive reshaping of some versions of the official British national history in the context of a wider revision of the European classical past. However, in spite of its temporal setting, Evaristo’s historical novel simultaneously engages with contemporary issues of gendered racialisation and national belonging. In its highly orch…
Constitutions of Site and Visitor at the Swarbrick Wilderness Discovery Site
2013
Located just off the North Walpole Road, the Swarbrick Wilderness Discovery Site can be seen as a node of several different historical trajectories which are – to different extents – documented in the artworks which frame, or decorate, the site. My account draws on my own biography and probes the investments I have in my various post-settler entanglements with the area. I critique, in particular, the idea of ‘wilderness’ as one formative to post-settler narrations and myths at the same time that it places indigenous practices of belonging under erasure. For, most recently, Swarbrick stood metonymically for the campaign to preserve ‘old growth forests’, culminating at the end of the 1990s, a…