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Apocalyptic Literature and the Study of Early Jewish Mysticism [PDF]

, 2014
This chapter examines apocalyptic literature within the framework of “early Jewish mysticism” and compares early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings with rabbinic and Hekhalot materials.
Ra\'anan Boustan, Patrick McCullough
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A Sephardic Quevedo? Abraham Gómez Silveira, Between Controversy and Poetry

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A book published in 2000, El barroco sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira (The Sephardic Baroque Abraham Gómez Silveira), introduced us to this hitherto unknown author, baptised in Castile in 1651, who was educated at the school of the sacred congregation of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
Mercedes Blanco
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
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Hamdard Islamicus Volume 1 - Issue 1

Hamdard Islamicus
Article Titles: Thoughts on Muslim Christian Dialogue Al Biruni and Islamic Mysticism The Quran and Fundamental Human Rights The Problem of Balue in Islam Book ReviewL Landlord and Peasant in Early ...
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Late Soviet Intellectual Cult(ure): Merab Mamardashvili’s Strategy of Self‐Presentation

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyzes Merab Konstantinovich Mamardashvili’s philosophical strategy in the context of late and post‐Soviet intellectual culture. It focuses on How I Understand Philosophy (1990), a collection of Mamardashvili’s works and interviews that had a significant impact on the reception of his thought and the shaping of his intellectual ...
Egor Sokolov
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Reconfiguring a theological-spiritual vocabulary about death: Mysticism, “magic” and the case of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore

Acta Theologica
Even to the most casual reader, J.K. Rowling’s overarching story about the “Boy who lived” is about death. Since the publication of the first book of the Harry Potter series in 1997, theologians and scholars of philosophy of religion have explored this ...
T. van Wyk
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Psychedelic-induced mystical experiences: An interdisciplinary discussion and critique. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry, 2023
Mosurinjohn S, Roseman L, Girn M.
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Demystifying Mysticism [PDF]

The title of my 2024 Academic Conference student presentation is “Demystifying Mysticism.” My work is based on my “Christian Mysticism” tutorial with Fr. John Gavin, S.J., in the Religious Studies Department.
Rae, Matthew Alexander
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Mystik och förtryck. En feministisk religionsfilosofisk granskning av den moderna mystikdefinitionen utifrån Grace M. Jantzens kritik

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013
The modern definition of mysticism relegates mysticism to the private sphere, focuses on man as a subject and characterizes the mystical experience as passive, emotive and ineffable, which at the same time reminds of what characterizes a patriarchal ...
Marie Appelros
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