Formation of the "Self-Made-Man" Idea in the Context of the Christian Middle Ages by V. Y. Antonova, O. M. Korkh

“…In the Middle Ages, this intention became essentially universal, as it became a right, even an obligation of every Christian to be free, at least from the worldly, in determining and realizing his own destiny. The gradual compromise recognition that personal salvation is possible only as a result of synergy, i.e. the co-participation of God’s grace and human freedom, legitimizes and strengthens its focus on active personal efforts and personal responsibility for one’s own salvation, in fact for one’s own destiny. …”
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Zdeňka Havlíčková: Dcera národa fabulosa by Milena Lenderová

“… The historical and literary works that emerged about Zdeňka Havlíčkova illustrate to what extent the interpretation of the destiny of an individual is affected both by the author who undertakes the theme and by the overall context of the society. …”
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Ekologia w programach nauczania religii dla I klasy gimnazjum by Julisław Łukomski

“…The article includes characteritc of additional materials for catechists and teachers, especially ecological examination of conscience and analysis of the following issues: revealed law and natural law, ecological balance, rule of general destiny of goods, celebration in connection with ecology, ecological intuitions in saints’ opinions and attitiudes, histories of Christian ecological intuitions.…”
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DEBATE ON REFORMING THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES by Vitaly G. Gorokhov

“…The key problem of the article is the destiny of Russian science in the light of today’sreforms. …”
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« La République des fils », mémoire en héritage. Pratiques mémorielles des descendants des Républicains espagnols by Olivia Salmon Monviola

“…In France, the descendants of Spanish republican refugees, united by a common destiny and a community of cause, are gathered in associations to keep the memory of their predecessors alive. …”
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Étude préalable à la restauration d'un objet technico-scientifique contemporain by Rémy Geindreau

“…The methods of an ethnologist as well as of a technologist are both necessary to carry out this survey which aims at best integrating the rupture between its past modes of existence and its patrimonial destiny.…”
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KİŞİSEL KİMLİK VE ÖLÜM SONRASI HAYAT by Muhsin Akbaş

“…One of the traditional problems of the Western philosophy of religion is human destiny after death. In this context this article deals with the question of survival after death in connection with the philosophical problem of personal identity. …”
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Folie en Christ à la romaine et à la moscovite : deux exemples de la religiosité chrétienne au XIXe siècle  by Irina Mironenko Marenkova

“…However very different social position and politics of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches induced very different destiny of the two cults. Labre was canonized in 1881 and his figure was used in catholic propaganda to diffuse religious values, Grigoriev, admired by common people, has never obtained official recognition.…”
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Une question archéologique syrienne. De l’archéologie comme symbole de notre destin by Michel al-Maqdissi

“…Thus, our archeology becomes the symbol of a destiny assimilated into a chain of aggression, which leads us to build a catastrophic future.…”
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Les mutilations des corps masculins et féminins dans les contes de transmission orale et leurs effets symboliques by Nicole Belmont

“…The happy outcome that leads the manhandled heroes and heroines to meet their destiny evokes the violence of some of the rites of passage of young people, at the end of which they attain the possibility of marriage. …”
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Reformace ve slezských městech na příkladu Krnova a Těšína by Jiří Válový

“…It does not omit the Catholic clergy and monastic orders either and deals with their status and destiny during the Reformation. On the basis of the comparison of the both towns, it describes and assesses the specifics of the Silesian Reformation. …”
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Amazônia globalizada: da fronteira agrícola ao território do agronegócio – o exemplo de Rondônia by Ricardo Gilson da Costa Silva

“…These courses result in territory fragmentation, now submitted to international capital logics and streams, alienating places, the land use and the control of their destiny. This is the geography configured in south Rondônia, where agribusiness regionalization and capital territorialization are conditioning territorial dynamics to globalization vectors.…”
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La « révolution » de 1964 et la commémoration de l’indépendance brésilienne by Maud Chirio

“…They inserted their « democratic and redemptive Revolution » (so was officially called their seizure of power) into the Nation’s history, whose destiny they would fulfil, by bringing it peace, power and greatness.…”
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La porte de la wak’a de Potosi s’est ouverte à l’enfer. La Quebrada de San Bartolomé by Pascale Absi, Pablo Cruz

“…Beyond its contribution to the religious history of Potosi, the destiny of St Bartolomé gorge also offers the occasion to reflect on the social construction of space in the southern Andes.…”
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Eine natürliche Ordnung der Geschlechter? by Elisabeth Petereit

“…On the basis of the novella Regine, this paper explores on the one hand the imaginary dimension of female ‘nature’, which thus appears less ‘natural’ than culturally constructed, and on the other hand is devoted to the figure of the maid, raising the issue of service and self-sacrifice as defining a specific female destiny. In this case as well, the author locates this conception less in ‘nature’ than in social relations of dependency.…”
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Faire tourner Paris : ethnogénétique et logogénétique de Nana de Zola by Sophie Ménard

“…Nana appears, from her birth, physiologically and symbolically, crooked. Her textual destiny will be to upturn Paris by decaying and bloodying it with her deregulated sex. …”
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Langues et discours en situation de guerre : une approche sociolinguistique et pragmatique by Salih Akin

“…This article on the basis of a double sociolinguistic and pragmatic approach examines the way in which war marks the destiny of languages. The example chosen for this study is the Kurdish language. …”
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Un paradis sans corps ? Festins célestes et ivresses spirituelles dans l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne by Alban Gautier

“…In the religious literature of Anglo-Saxon England, allusions to the destiny and appearance of the blessed dead in the other world generally include, as expected in a Christian context of belief in the resurrection of the flesh, mentions of their bodies, and particularly of their food habits. …”
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Sázka na nejistou kartu. Armádní služba a sociální úpadek Raduitů de Souches na přelomu 17. a 18. století by Vítězslav Prchal

“… The paper sets a goal to clarify, by the form of a case study into the destiny of the three generations of the native French family of the Raduits, the connection between the economic resources, which the mentioned family could gain and mobilize, and the economic and financial aspects of army service. …”
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L’archipel des Antilles, terres d’Amérique ? : la nouvelle "New Frontier" et ses implications by Lionel Davidas

“…Does the concept of "the manifest destiny" find a legitimate application in the Caribbean islands? …”
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