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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
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The Alchemical Art of Dyeing: The Fourfold Division of Alchemy and the Enochian Tradition

, 2014
What is Graeco-Egyptian alchemy? Which kinds of techniques and craft practices does it encompass? And what were its goals? The paper addresses these questions by investigating the earliest Greek alchemical texts preserved both in Byzantine and in Syriac ...
Matteo Martelli, Martelli, Matteo
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Embodied Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Intercultural Understanding: Insights from Chinese Traditions

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
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La maîtrise et la conservation du corps vivant chez Descartes

Methodos, 2004
The texts in which Descartes tries to give a mechanical account on the living form one of the major contributions to the history of the natural sciences.
Fabien Chareix
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Education and Learning in Studies of Nationalism: Anderson and Weber in Focus

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of nationalism have pointed to the importance of educational institutions for the dissemination of national identities and associated sentimental attachments, yet how nationalism is learned within these educational institutions has received little attention.
Lejla Voloder
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Alchemy in Eastern Literature [PDF]

, 2020
Alchemy, developing in Ancient Egypt and its environs, was formed during the Islamic age as the branch of science and technology. The transmutation of base metals into noble metals and attempts to achieve immortality or rejuvenation by elixir or ...
Isakhanli, Hamlet
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The Alchemy of working with young women [PDF]

, 2018
The alchemy of work with young women takes inspiration from the ancient transformative process of changing base metals into gold – a dangerous and exciting process that blends science and art. The alchemy of work with young women expresses the principles,
Mc Ardle, Elizabeth, Morgan, Susan
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A Scale for Mixed Reasons for Belief

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Epistemic reasons matter for what you should believe. But then, some think there are practical reasons that matter, too. How could both sorts of reasons be weighed together to determine the doxastic states you ought to hold, all things considered?
Matthew Vermaire
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“Gentry Alchemy”: The Transmission and Patronage of the Eastern Lineage of Internal Alchemy in the Jiangnan Area During the Ming Dynasty

Religions
How did a school of Daoist internal alchemy flourish in the Ming and Qing dynasties without formal ordination, institutional affiliation, or a lineage of disciples?
Lu Zhang
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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