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Pilgrimage Centers and Relics in Catholic Spain
"The prominence of the Catholic faith in Spain is evident in the number of basilicas, cathedrals, churches, sanctuaries, monasteries, convents, pilgrimage sites, altarpieces, statues, as well as the municipal commemoration of feast days throughout the country. Spain..." – By María del Mar Doval Trueba and Barbara von Barghahn
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Technology and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome
"Coupling together “technology” and “religion” might, to the modern mind, sound rather antithetical. The former, as we know it, is based in scientific knowledge and produces tangible results; the latter is phenomenological and spiritual. Yet this does..."– By Tatiana Bur
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