The purpose of this paper is to study the possible relation between prayer and the long Homeric Hymns. The analysis centers on the beginnings and endings of these compositions, in which two of the traditional parts of ...

This article analyzes a series of French prayer texts composed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These texts taught the lay public devotional modalities considered internal, that is, inspired by monastic practices ...

The purpose of this research is to answer the question how prayer, as linguistic utterance, has curative effectiveness. Knowing why the benzedura rite attached to pray makes operational the therapeutic healing of cultural ...

This book originated as part of a larger project investigating weeping in ancient literature. I became fascinated by weeping when, in the course of researching grief, I discovered that there was a significant body of ...

The next study is a temporary analysis regarding the text "Misa de Requiem", according to the parameters from Paul Ricoeur. In the tale, there is an evident temporary overlap: the present time, related to the eucharistic ...