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Alchemy and Science in Early Modern Central Europe
James Brueckel, a student at the University of Minnesota, interviews Tara Nummedal, professor of history at Brown University, about her research on alchemy and the new book and digital project, Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's ...
James Brueckel
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The Potential of Poetry in Sociolinguistics
ABSTRACT Research in the field of sociolinguistics has taken a relational and artistic turn, as scholars have developed creative means of showing research findings. Drawing on relational ethics, we explore the capacity of art to reach beyond the indexical.
Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Alchemy. The seventh issue. Manual 7 (Alchemy) prompts the unexpected and emergent to manifest. To engage as an alchemist/artist is to be the perpetual student of the present moment, to synthesize culture, so ...
Grugl, Michael +16 more
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Jābir ibn Ḥayyān and his reception in the Latin world
Description of the natural philosophy and alchemy of the texts attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan in the Arabic world and in the Latin ...
Moureau, Sébastien +1 more
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Alchemy and Medicine in the Corpus of Texts Attributed to Jābir b. Ḥayyān
Alchemy and Medicine in the Corpus of Texts Attributed to Jābir b ...
Lead & Gold on the Silk Road: Alchemy in a transcultural perspective +1 more
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Divine alchemy in Paradise Lost
This study examines the themes of alchemy and transformation in Paradise Lost and seventeenth-century thought. Beginning with an overview of the historical roots of alchemy, this study analyzes the ancient, underlying philosophical concepts that marital ...
Rutherfoord, Andrea J.
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