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Humanism at the Council of Constance. Diego de Anaya, Classical Manuscripts and Education in Salamanca

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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A Mercury Retrograde Kind of Day: Exploring Astrology in Contemporary New Age Spirituality and American Social Life

Correspondences, 2018
Astrology is a feature of everyday conversation and the local spiritual scene in Sedona, Arizona, a small town renowned for its “vortexes”. As part of a variegated new age spirituality, astrology “works” in three main ways that are examined in this ...
Susannah Crockford
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Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths [PDF]

, 2009
Presents survey findings on Americans' religious practices such as types and frequency of services attended and types and prevalence of mystical experiences and beliefs.

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Paranormal Beliefs in Canada

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT There has been no nationally representative examination of paranormal beliefs in Canada for over two decades, even though Canada has undergone major social shifts in that time, such as greater secularization, which could affect the prevalence of paranormal beliefs.
Tony Silva, Emily Huddart
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Astrology and mental illness

Archives of Mental Health, 2013
Astrology is an ancient system which was said to be predictive of human nature, character and health, it has a very significant history and at times it gives an idea that it is nearly scientific, but, rigorous experiments with the available scientific ...
Krishna Murthy Kavirayani
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Obscure Existential Narratives: Predetermination and Freedom in Nepalese Horoscopic Knowledge. [PDF]

, 2018
Nepali astrological divination can be seen as a form sense-making which, in providing access to the ‘hidden motifs’ attained to determine life events, mitigates the irreducibility of being-in- the-world by providing existential narratives. Conveying hope
Poletti, Samuele
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‘Matters of Household Proffit’: Sixteenth‐Century Manuscript and Print Exchanges in Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1477☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 215-230, April 2026.
Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
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Gök Cisimleriyle İlgili Ayetleri İslam Öncesi Arap Kültür ve İnançları Çerçevesinde Okumak

Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
Bu çalışmada, Kur’an’da yer alan gök cisimlerini konu edinen ayetler, İslam öncesi Arap kültür ve inançları çerçevesinde ele alınmaktadır. Kur’an’da gökyüzü, gök cisimleri ve gök olayları ile ilgili çok sayıda ayet bulunması, bu olguların vahyin nazil ...
Abdulcabbar Adıgüzel
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Elementi di astrologia nel Decameron censurato di Luigi Groto

Acta Neophilologica, 2011
The censored version of the Decameron by Luigi Groto, which was published in 1588, was already the third censorship of Boccaccio's masterpiece during the Counter-Reformation.
Kristina Lazar
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On Buddhism, Divination and the Worldly Arts: Textual Evidence from the Theravāda Tradition [PDF]

, 2014
This essay attends to the sticky web of indigenous terminology concerning divination and other so-called “mundane” or “worldly” arts, focusing primarily upon Buddhist canonical texts preserved in Pāli, augmented by references to commentarial and ...
Fiordalis, David
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