Archive of Journal of Comparative Studies

Journal of Comparative Studies

No 15 (44)
Published: 2022
ISSN 2255-9388 (print)
ISSN 2592-8279 (online)

https://doi.org/10.59893/jcs.15(44)

Contents:

Editors of the collection: Ilze Kačāne, Aveen Mohammed Hasan
FOREWORD

Birgit Menzel, Anita Stašulāne, Ilze Kačāne
Esotericism and the East: Introduction

Christopher McIntosh
The Quest for Shangri-La

Birgit Menzel
Eurasia as a Spiritual Realm? Inquiries into an Imagined Continent

Tim Rudbøg
H. P. Blavatsky’s Later Reception of Hindu Philosophy

Ulrich Harlass
Theosophical Anthropology, or the Septenary Constitution of Man Reconsidered

Konstantin Burmistrov
Russian Esotericism of the Early Twentieth Century and Kabbalah

Romina Kaltenbach
Russia’s Mystical Anarchism: the Case of Aleksej Solonovich (1887-1937)

Jihan Zakarriya
Agency, Sexuality and Female Identity in “Disgrace” and “The Journal of Sarab Affan”

Pedro Albuquerque
The Cultural Uniqueness of Portuguese-Spanish Border Landscapes

Journal of Comparative Studies

No 14 (43)
Published: 2021
ISSN 2255-9388 (print)
ISSN 2592-8279 (online)

https://doi.org/10.59893/jcs.14(43)

Contents:

Editors of the collection: Ilze Kačāne, Aveen Mohammed Hasan
FOREWORD

AVEEN MOHAMMED HASAN
Loanwords and Their Variations in Kurdish

MARJORIE ABLANIDO MAIDO  
Exploring Filipino Seafarers’ Masculinity Onboard and at Home through Linguistic Discourses

SYLWIA JANINA WOJCIECHOWSKA  
Memory and Reflective Nostalgia in “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf and “The Go-Between” by L.P. Hartley

PEDRO ALBUQUERQUE  
A Comparative Insight into Encounters, Territorialities, Identities, and Violence: Phoenicians in Southwestern Iberia and Portugese in Africa

EVITA BADINA, ŽANS BADINS, OKSANA KOVZELE  
The Soviet Image of the USA in Latvian Satirical Journalism of the 1960s: Textual and Visual Code

LJUBEN TEVDOVSKI 
The Classical Message in a Bottle – Should “Classical Wisdom” Determine Our Identity and Future?

ANITA STAŠULĀNE, ILZE KAČĀNE, ALĪNA ROMANOVSKA, IRĒNA SALENIECE
The Research on Culture, Youth and Knowledge Sharing in Latvia

Journal of Comparative Studies 

No 13 (42)
Published: 2020
ISSN 2255-9388 (print)
ISSN 2592-8279 (online)

https://doi.org/10.59893/jcs.13(42)

Contents:

Editors of the collection: Ilze Kačāne, Aveen Mohammed Hasan
FOREWORD

ANTON PIYARATHNE  
Secularising Buddhism: An Ethnography of Roadside Buddhist Shrine Worshiping in the City of Colombo

JONATHAN DURANDIN  
Franco-Latvian Children and the Latvian Diglossic Situation

OKSANA KOVZELE
Groups of Festivities Most Exposed to Commercialization Processes: Opinions of Residents in Latgale and Pskov Region

AYOWOLE S. ELUGBAJU, LANRE HASSAN  
Sòókò Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Continuity and Change in the Royal History of Ilé-Ifè

NUBIA NIETO
Mexican and Brazilian Machismo: Cultural Tolerance

Journal of Comparative Studies

No 12 (41)
Published: 2019
ISSN 2255-9388 (print)
ISSN 2592-8279 (online)

Contents:

Editors of the collection: Ilze Kačāne, Alīna Romanovska
FOREWORD

JEĻENA KOROĻOVA, OKSANA KOVZELE  
Latvians’, Latgalians’ and Russians’ Paremias about Life

JIHAN ZAKARRIYA
Childhood and the Non-Human in Modern Scottish Novels

SILVIO TAMASO D’ONOFRIO
History and Historian: Yesterday and Today

CAREN J. FROST, ASTER S. TECLE, SUAVIS KANYANGE, KILEE JORGENSEN, NATHAN P. DEVIR
Exploring Integration Issues for African Youth of Refugee Backgrounds in Utah

BURCU GUMUS
Examining Tattooing as a Form of Identity Expression and Interaction Process – Atatürk Tattooing Case

ANTRA MIEZE
Discourses of “Healthy” and “Unhealthy” Nutrition Constructed by Pupils and Adults

Journal of Comparative Studies

No 11 (40)
Published: 2018
ISSN 2255-9388 (print)
ISSN 2592-8279 (online)

Contents:

Editors of the collection: Ilze Kačāne, Alīna Romanovska  
FOREWORD

DIEGO HAN
From Postmodernity to a Post-Truth Society?

GRACIELA SUSANA BORUSZKO  
Living-in-Between-Languages@Borderlands.Global

TIGRAN SIMYAN, ALBERT MAKARYAN  
On Functional-Typological Plot of  “Little Red Riding Hood” in European and Armenian Contexts

U. H. RUHINA JESMIN  
Narcissistic Personality in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and Saul Bellow’s “Seize the Day”: A Comparative Study

ILZE KACANE, ALINA ROMANOVSKA
Measuring Child and Youth Well-being for Enhancing Political Commitment and Decision-making Processes: the Case of Latvia

Journal of Comparative Studies

No 10 (39)
Published: 2017
ISSN 2255-9388 (print)
ISSN 2592-8279 (online)

Contents:

Editors of the collection: Ilze Kačāne, Alīna Romanovska
FOREWORD 

BINA NIR
The Perception of Time in the Virtual Space: A Cultural-Philosophical Analysis 

BĀRBALA SIMSONE
Virtual Reality in World and Latvian Science Fiction

TATIANA FILOSOFOVA
Religious Poetry of Literary Origin in the Manuscript Tradition of the Russian Old Believers 

SAMUEL BABATUNDE MORUWAWON  
Translation at the Crossroad of Rhetorical Trope: Translating Metaphor in the Light of Relevance Theory

RAIVIS VILŪNS
Detecting Tabloidization of Online Media in Latvia