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Context: Encyclopedia II - Gospel of Philip - History and context

A single manuscript of the Gospel of Philip, in Coptic, was found in the Nag Hammadi library, a cache of documents that was secreted in a jar and buried in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 4th century, when Gnostic writings and pagan ones were being burned by the official church. Among the mix of aphorisms, parables, brief polemics, narrative dialogue, biblical exegesis (especially of Genesis), and dogmatic propositions, Wesley Isenberg has enumerated seventeen sayings (logia) attributed to Jesus, nine of whi ...

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Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Philip - History and context, Gospel of Philip - Criticisms

Read more here: » Gospel of Philip: Encyclopedia II - Gospel of Philip - History and context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Democratization - Democratization in other contexts

Although democratization is most often thought of in the context of national or regional politics, the term can also be applied to: Democratization - International bodies. International bodies (e.g the United Nations) where there is an ongoing call for reform and altered voting structures and voting systems. Democratization - Corporations. It can also be applied in corporations where the traditional power structure was top-down direction and the boss-knows-b ...

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Democratization, Democratization - Ideologies and extremes, Democratization - Factors affecting democratization, Democratization - Empirical research, Democratization - Democratization movements, Democratization - Democratization in other contexts, Democratization - International bodies, Democratization - Corporations, Democratization - The Internet, Democratization - Notes

Read more here: » Democratization: Encyclopedia II - Democratization - Democratization in other contexts

Context: Encyclopedia II - CNIL - European and International Contexts

Sweden in 1973, Germany in 1971, and France in 1978 were the first three States to vote for such a law computers and liberty law. Those laws work with independent control authority. International, economic, and political structures have been created to apply CNIL directives. Among these are the Organisation pour la coopération et le développement économique (OCDE) (EDCO) in 1980, the Council of Europe in 1981 and the United Nations (ONU) (UNO) in 1990. In 1995, the European Commission voted a directive in thi ...

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CNIL, CNIL - Composition and independence, CNIL - Power, CNIL - Regulation, CNIL - European and International Contexts, CNIL - External link

Read more here: » CNIL: Encyclopedia II - CNIL - European and International Contexts

Context: Encyclopedia II - Unam sanctam - Political context

The furious reaction of Philip and his ministry cannot be understood outside the context of a conflict between the increasing power of secular rulers in France and England (who had come to blows) with attempts to tax the clergy to support warfare that was no different from some of the "crusades" that had been authorized during the 13th century — against the king of Aragon for instance — save that the warfare had not been authorized by the Pope and the taxes were also to be levied on the clergy. Boniface's stringent reaction w ...

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Unam sanctam, Unam sanctam - Content, Unam sanctam - Political context, Unam sanctam - The response to Unam sanctam

Read more here: » Unam sanctam: Encyclopedia II - Unam sanctam - Political context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Action painting - Historical context

It is essential for the understanding of this movement to place it in historical context. A product of the post-war artistic insurgence, it developed in an era where quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis were beginning to flourish and change the entire Western civilization’s understating of the world and self-consciousness. The preceding art of Kandinsky and Mondrian, had attempted to detract itself from the portrayal of objects and instead tried to tingle and tantalize the emotions of the viewer. Action Art took this a step further, ...

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Action painting, Action painting - Historical context, Action painting - The unconscious act, Action painting - Action painters

Read more here: » Action painting: Encyclopedia II - Action painting - Historical context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Wise Blood - Biographical Context

Flannery O'Connor was a Roman Catholic living in the American South, and her fictions consistently illustrate not merely religious, but theological points of view. By the time of Wise Blood, O'Connor was herself diagnosed with lupus and was receiving treatment with hydrocortisone therapy at Emory University hospitals in Atlanta. O'Connor's first major attack of lupus had occurred in 1950, and she had been forced to return home to Milledgeville, Georgia to live with her mother on the family farm. Since O'Connor's father had died ...

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Wise Blood, Wise Blood - Literary Context, Wise Blood - Biographical Context, Wise Blood - Themes, Wise Blood - Plot, Wise Blood - Literary Influence and Significance, Wise Blood - Adaptations into Other Media

Read more here: » Wise Blood: Encyclopedia II - Wise Blood - Biographical Context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Wise Blood - Literary Context

Wise Blood began with four chapters published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review in 1948 and 1949. Flannery O'Connor then published it as a complete novel in 1952, and Signet advertised it as "A Searching Novel of Sin and Redemption." In the novel, O'Connor takes up her consistent theme of a disaffected young person returning home and the struggle of the individual to understand Christianity on a purely individualistic basis. O'Connor's hero, Hazel Motes, sneers at communal and social experiences of Christianity, sees the followers of itinerant, Protestant preachers as fools, and ...

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Wise Blood, Wise Blood - Literary Context, Wise Blood - Biographical Context, Wise Blood - Themes, Wise Blood - Plot, Wise Blood - Literary Influence and Significance, Wise Blood - Adaptations into Other Media

Read more here: » Wise Blood: Encyclopedia II - Wise Blood - Literary Context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Spaceballs - Cultural context

The plot is deliberately evocative of fairy tales, as are the scenes on the planet Druidia. Throughout the film, the characters regularly break the fourth wall, often to promote their merchandise, and they are aware that they are making a movie, and the events are not "real life." The majority of the scenes and characters are parodies of Star Wars, although it parodies other movies as well. The most notable are Transformers (Spaceball One), Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, The Bridge on the River Kwai, T ...

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Spaceballs, Spaceballs - Opening crawl, Spaceballs - Plot, Spaceballs - Antagonist, Spaceballs - Spaceball One, Spaceballs - Cultural context, Spaceballs - Cast, Spaceballs - Character parodies

Read more here: » Spaceballs: Encyclopedia II - Spaceballs - Cultural context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Get out the vote - Campaign contexts

In contexts of the efforts of candidates, party activities and ballot measure campaigns, "get-out-the-vote" (or GOTV) is an adjective indicating having the effect of increasing the number of the campaign's supporters who will vote in the immediately approaching election. (As a noun, "get out the vote" or GOTV is shorthand for either "get-out-the-vote activities" or "the previously planned get-out-the-vote portion of our campaign".) GOTV generally is distinguished from preliminary activities necessary to carrying it out. That is ...

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Get out the vote, Get out the vote - Impartial contexts, Get out the vote - Campaign contexts

Read more here: » Get out the vote: Encyclopedia II - Get out the vote - Campaign contexts

Context: Encyclopedia II - Anthropology - Historical and institutional context

The anthropologist Eric Wolf once characterized anthropology as the most scientific of the humanities, and the most humanistic of the sciences. Understanding how anthropology developed contributes to understanding how it fits into other academic disciplines. Contemporary anthropologists claim a number of earlier thinkers as their forebearers and the discipline has several sources. However, anthropology can best be understood as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment. It was during this period that Europeans attempted systematically ...

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Anthropology, Anthropology - Historical and institutional context, Anthropology - Anthropology in the U.S., Anthropology - Anthropology in Britain, Anthropology - Anthropology in France, Anthropology - Anthropology after World War Two, Anthropology - Politics of anthropology, Anthropology - Anthropological fields and subfields

Read more here: » Anthropology: Encyclopedia II - Anthropology - Historical and institutional context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Community - The context of community

From the days of the hunter-gatherer culture, individual humans have learned that there is strength in numbers and that sharing work and resources can be a good thing. The Latin root munus or gift, brings into the meaning of community the aspect of giving of one's self to others. Related etymology for munere expands the meaning to included something prized, precious and worth defending. It is the same root as used for the word munitions (defences). Sharing in this "common defence" incorporates a balance between self-inte ...

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Community, Community - The nature of community, Community - The context of community, Community - The processes of community, Community - Problems of community, Community - The sense of community, Community - The spirit of community

Read more here: » Community: Encyclopedia II - Community - The context of community

Context: Encyclopedia II - Zoroaster - Zoroaster in Historical Context

Textual evidence regarding the birthplace of Zoroaster is conflicting. Yasnas 9 & 17 cite Airyanem Vaējah, "Homeland of the Aryans" (Pahlavi Ērān Wēj), on the Ditya River, as the home of Zoroaster, and the scene of his first appearance. The Būndahišn or Creation (20, 32 and 24, 15) says the Dhraja River in Ērān Wēj was his birth-place, and the home of his father. This same text identifies Ērān Wēj with the district of Arran on the river Aras (Araxes), close by the north-western ...

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Zoroaster, Zoroaster - Name, Zoroaster - Zoroaster in History, Zoroaster - Life, Zoroaster - Zoroaster in Historical Context, Zoroaster - Date of Zoroaster, Zoroaster - Zoroastrian teachings, Zoroaster - Zoroaster in the West, Zoroaster - Contemporary views, Zoroaster - Bibliography

Read more here: » Zoroaster: Encyclopedia II - Zoroaster - Zoroaster in Historical Context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Ragtime - Historical context

Ragtime originated in African-American musical communities, in the late 19th century, and descended from the jigs and marches played by all-black bands common in all Northern cities with black populations (van der Merwe 1989, p.63). By the start of the 20th century it became widely popular throughout North America and was listened and danced to, performed, and written by people of many different subcultures. A distinctly American musical style, ragtime may be considered a synthesis of African-American syncopation and European classical mus ...

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Ragtime, Ragtime - Historical context, Ragtime - Styles of Ragtime, Ragtime - Ragtime revivals, Ragtime - Ragtime composers, Ragtime - Samples, Ragtime - Sources

Read more here: » Ragtime: Encyclopedia II - Ragtime - Historical context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Uranus mythology - Cultural Context of Flint

The detail of the sickle's being flint rather than bronze or even iron was retained by Greek mythographers (though neglected by Roman ones). Knapped flints as cutting edges were set in wooden or bone sickles in the late Neolithic, before the onset of the Bronze Age. Such sickles may have survived latest in ritual contexts where metal was taboo, but the detail, which was retained by classical Greeks, suggests the antiquity of the mytheme. Robert Graves' and others' identification of the name Ouranos with the Hindu Varuna is widely rejected. The most probably etymology is from Proto-Gree ...

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Uranus mythology, Uranus mythology - The Creation Myth, Uranus mythology - Cultural Context of Flint, Uranus mythology - Consorts/Children

Read more here: » Uranus mythology: Encyclopedia II - Uranus mythology - Cultural Context of Flint

Context: Encyclopedia II - Sovereignty - Sovereignty in certain contexts

In international law, sovereignty is the exercise of power by a state. De jure sovereignty is the legal right to do so; de facto sovereignty is the ability in fact to do so (which becomes of special concern upon the failure of the usual expectation that de jure and de facto sovereignty exist at the place and time of concern, and rest in the same organization). Foreign governments recognize t ...

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Sovereignty, Sovereignty - National sovereignty, Sovereignty - Sovereignty in certain contexts, Sovereignty - Different views of sovereignties, Sovereignty - Sovereignty and federalism

Read more here: » Sovereignty: Encyclopedia II - Sovereignty - Sovereignty in certain contexts

Context: Encyclopedia II - Bible Belt - Political Cultural Context

The term Bible Belt is used mainly, but not uniquely, by detractors of or negative anti-Protestant commentators about a people or region that is said to be very religious, perhaps too religious. The term was coined in a January 1926 edition of American Mercury by H.L. Mencken. He described Jackson, Mississippi as "in the heart of the Bible and Lynching Belt." The term is not strictly regional—like flyover country or the more positive heartland—but is often used to describe the middle of the country in a way that diminishes ...

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Bible Belt, Bible Belt - Geography, Bible Belt - Geographical extent, Bible Belt - Political Cultural Context

Read more here: » Bible Belt: Encyclopedia II - Bible Belt - Political Cultural Context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Color psychology - Cultural contexts of colors

Here are some common cultural connotations attached to colors in Western cultures, particularly in the United States: Various cultures see color differently. In India, blue is associated with Krishna (a very positive association), green with Islam, red with purity (used as a wedding color) and brown with mourning. In most Asian cultures, yellow is the imperial color with many of the same cultural associations as purple in the west. In China, red is symbolic of celebration, luck and prosperity; white is symbolic of mourning and death, ...

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Color psychology, Color psychology - Cultural contexts of colors, Color psychology - Criticism

Read more here: » Color psychology: Encyclopedia II - Color psychology - Cultural contexts of colors

Context: Encyclopedia II - Council of Laodicea - Historical context

Rome's war with Persia had continued under the Emperor Julian, who died of battle wounds on the last campaign on June 26, 363. Officers of the army elected his successor, Jovian, on the battle field. Julian, the last non-Christian ruler of Rome, was the last direct line descendant of Constantine, the first Christian ruler of Rome. During Julian's rule, the Christian desecration of pagan temples and persecution of pagans in general was replaced by a return to the perse ...

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Council of Laodicea, Council of Laodicea - Historical context, Council of Laodicea - Major concerns, Council of Laodicea - Biblical Canon

Read more here: » Council of Laodicea: Encyclopedia II - Council of Laodicea - Historical context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Bible Belt - Political, Cultural Context

The term Bible Belt is used mainly, but not uniquely, by detractors of or negative anti-Protestant commentators about a people or region that is said to be very religious, perhaps too religious. The term was coined in a January 1926 edition of American Mercury by H.L. Mencken. He described Jackson, Mississippi as "in the heart of the Bible and Lynching Belt." The term is not strictly regional—like flyover country or the more positive heartland—but is often used to describe the middle of the country in a way that diminishes ...

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Bible Belt, Bible Belt - Geography, Bible Belt - Geographical extent, Bible Belt - Political, Cultural Context

Read more here: » Bible Belt: Encyclopedia II - Bible Belt - Political, Cultural Context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Over the hill - American Context

Critiques of American Culture often insist that marketing and general cultural strategies push the glamour of youth as being the major ideal in life. The anti-ageing industry in America is the largest in the world. At the age of 50, most Americans consider themselves "over the hill." This may be confusing, because there is typically an "over the hill" party at the age of 40. In certain areas, after a person has become 50, their friends and family members will begin to count down from the age of 50. Thus, 51 becomes 49, and 52, ...

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Over the hill, Over the hill - American Context, Over the hill - Other Cultures

Read more here: » Over the hill: Encyclopedia II - Over the hill - American Context

Context: Encyclopedia II - Obverse and reverse - The context of the contrast

The form of currency follows its function, which is to serve as a readily accepted medium of exchange of value. Normally, this function rests on a state as guarantor of the value: either as trustworthy guarantor of the kind and amount of metal in a coin, or as powerful guarantor of the continuing acceptance of token coins. Traditionally, states have been monarchies where the person of the monarch and the state were for most purposes equivalent, and for most people inseparable to the point of indistiguishability. In an absolute ...

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Obverse and reverse, Obverse and reverse - The context of the contrast, Obverse and reverse - Formal standards, Obverse and reverse - Informal standards, Obverse and reverse - Euro

Read more here: » Obverse and reverse: Encyclopedia II - Obverse and reverse - The context of the contrast

Context: Encyclopedia II - Nihilist movement - Historical context

After more than a century of Westernization that began with the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), a Russian national consciousness evolved slowly throughout the early decades of the nineteenth century, reflected in the development of a uniquely Russian literature (by authors such as Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov). But despite this growing national identity, European thought continued to exert considerable influence on Russia’s dominant political and cultural institutions: Russian troops brought back Western id ...

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Nihilist movement, Nihilist movement - History, Nihilist movement - Historical context, Nihilist movement - Political philosophy

Read more here: » Nihilist movement: Encyclopedia II - Nihilist movement - Historical context

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