Consecration is the process by which producers in creative fields become canonized as “greats”. However, this end of story? Research on consecration focuses drivers consecration, but pays little attention to post-consecration period. Furthermore, research ignores dynamics consecration. To address these gaps, we examine changing fortunes a consecrated artist – musician Phil Collins. We identify ...

looking at the structure of the cities, especially older parts of the city, it is seen that most of the urban public parts and elements are constructed not with any reliance on state resources and credits, but based on the consecration systems and public investments. added to the sublime religious, social and economic values latent in the consecration culture, its impact in creating identity an...

To date, there has been a dearth of coherent argument on this side of the issue. Frankly, the arguments put forward, with rare exception, smack of the kind of “fuzzy thinking” that makes our conservative brothers and sisters so frustrated. It need not be so. A clear, concise argument can be built from the Holy Scriptures for the consecration of Gene Robinson, or any other homosexual person, ass...