RELIGION / Holidays / Other

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This article examines trends in research on secularization, secularism, and secularity over the past 15 years, focusing on work from, or carried out with the involvement of, scholars from the German-speaking world. It maps a discursive field, the distinctive features of which include, among other things, the importance of a differentiation–theoretical perspective. The essay begins with the earlier juxtaposition of s…

Reference · Wikidata

institution that holds artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, historical, or other importance

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have non-exhibited collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums hold a wide range of objects and often focus on a particular theme, such as the arts, science, natural history, or local history. Museums that …

Book · DOAB

Paranormal Britain is the most systematic study available of the nature and scope of paranormal beliefs, experiences, and subcultures in contemporary Britain. Using original survey data from British citizens regarding their beliefs and experiences with UFOs, ghosts, psychics and other paranormal phenomena, this open access book details the prevalence and patterns of paranormalism in the U.K. In addition to presentin…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Yaffa Gunner, active member of the Jewish Community of Amherst, was interviewed by Allie Brudney on May 15, 2012, at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Yaffa Gunner begins her interview by describing her family background; both of her parents were born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States. Her father left for the US before the First World War, but her mother only managed to arrive after the…