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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 254-273, April 2026.Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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Traditional magic or European occultism? Commercial fortune-telling and magic in post-Soviet Russia and their relationship to Russian tradition [PDF]
, 2009 The article examines the vibrant commercial magic and fortune-telling industry in Russia today. Based on fieldwork in Petersburg conducted in 2006, supplemented by printed and, in particular, web material, it seeks to show that, despite the many ...
Wigzell, F.
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Pseudoscience and the Claim of Practical Utility: The Case of Thomas Erikson's Surrounded by Idiots
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that, by definition, pseudoscientists must assert that their theories are scientific or represent the best available knowledge. However, in business consultation and self‐help literature, pseudoscientists do not often make such strong claims. Instead, they commonly appeal to the practical utility of their theories.
Kaisa Luoma, Ilmari Hirvonen
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The Symposium of Methodius of Olympus and the Critique of Fatalism
ReligionsThis study examines a specific section of the Symposium by Methodius of Olympus, a Church Father of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, focusing on the critique of astrological fatalism.
Davide Tomaselli
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İbn Meymūn’un Astroloji Mektubu
Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022 İbn Meymūn, Fransa’nın Montpellier şehrinden kendisine gönderilen bir dizi soruya cevap olarak astroloji konusundaki görüşlerini kaleme aldığı bir mektup yazmıştır.
Yasin Meral
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Mağrib’te Akâid Eş‘arîliğine Davet: Ebû Alî es-Sekûnî’nin (ö. 717/1317) Lahnü’l-avâm Adlı Eseri
İdrak Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2023 Müslüman bilginler, tarih boyunca iman-küfür sınırını tayin eden elfâz-ı küfür ve dinen sakıncalı bulunan sözler hakkında eserler telif ederek, yaşadıkları toplumun din anlayışını gözler önüne sermişlerdir.
Ahmet Selim Harputlu
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Algunos chistes astrológicos de Lope de Vega
Criticón, 2014 This article examines how Lope de Vega used astrology satirically in two works from his early maturity: the Arcadia and the Rimas. In particular, we will focus on analyzing a complicated sonnet from the Rimas, number CXV, «A Juan Baptista Labaña», whose ...
Antonio Sánchez Jiménez
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Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 13, Issue 1, January‐June 2026.Short Abstract This article critically examines the role of Indigenous knowledge and mobile livelihoods in contemporary climate adaptation practices, highlighting how these efforts often risk perpetuating colonial power structures and sedentary biases.
Nuhu Adeiza Ismail +10 more
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Reading the Stars of the Renaissance. Fritz Saxl and Astrology [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2011 This article discusses Fritz Saxl’s publications on astrological images from the western Middle Ages and Renaissance, from his early study on the representation of the planets (1912), via his catalogues of astrological and mythological manuscripts (1915 ...
Rembrandt Duits
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Studies in Mysticism and Mystical Experience in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia [PDF]
, 2015 The paper highlights the key perspectives on mysticism typical for Soviet and Post-Soviet religious studies. Recognizing the vagueness of the ”mystical’, Soviet scholars interpreted it as a belief in ”communication’ with ”supernatural powers ...
Malevich, Tatiana
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