This article seeks to explore the Komba traditional rites practised by the VaRemba people of the Shona-Karanga ethnic group in Zimbabwe. The “Komba rite” is intended to move a mature girl (mhandra) from the state of girlhood to that of womanhood. It is also meant to initiate vashenji (uncircumcised non-VaRemba) women who marry VaRemba men into their female traditions and customs. While Christia...

This research paper is based on the investigation of over 1000 lawsuits for declaration nullity mar- riage initiated at Church Interdiocesan Tribunal in Split between 2000 and 2020. The main aim this was to focus connected with canon 1095, n. 3, especially problems gambling addiction. materials were analysed synthetically, data collected a number conducted under specific reasons filing lawsuit....

This article examines how Brazilian nationalist elites perceived Jews, Judaism and Zionism during the military dictatorship period (1964–1985). Although an explicit antisemitic discourse was socially unacceptable in Brazil, many officials intellectuals who discussed Jewish Zionist Brazilians among themselves those years were using a of disloyalty. depicted Jews adopted diasporic stance (maintai...