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The power within: Mass media, scientific entertainment, and the introduction of psychical research into China, 1900-1920. [PDF]
J Hist Behav Sci, 2023 Abstract How did a new science initially promoted by only a few individuals eventually become a widespread cultural phenomenon practiced and known by thousands of people? Following a transnational approach, this article traces the introduction of psychical research into China during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Junqueira LFB.
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Moxibustion in Early Chinese Medicine and Its Relation to the Origin of Meridians: A Study on the Unearthed Literatures. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2017 Moxibustion is an integral part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It achieved higher level of recognition and had more general application in ancient times than in contemporary life. As the vital historical sources, the records of unearthed literatures offered precious insights to Chinese social life pattern and medical practice in Qin and Han ...
Huang C +5 more
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HUGO BALL'S RELIGIOUS CONVERSION
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 376-391, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This essay investigates the German ex‐Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine and Francis to writers and poets in modernity. This intense engagement was rooted in Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re‐conversion’, to an austere form of the Catholicism of his childhood in 1920, just a few ...
Deborah Lewer
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Why Did the Origenist Controversy Begin? Re‐thinking the Standard Narratives
Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 318-337, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The Origenist controversy at the end of the fourth century was largely played out within a monastic context, and had, moreover, an immediate and extensive impact on the movement. In spite of this, studies of the controversy and its causes have mainly focused on the dogmatic issues foregrounded in the controversy, neglecting the more ...
Samuel Rubenson
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 23, Issue 4, Page 593-616, October 2021., 2021 Abstract Barth responds to the modern lack of language for talking of evil by developing the concept of das Nichtige (CD III/3, §50). ‘Das Nichtige’ – for which ‘nothingness’ is an insufficient translation – encompasses not only sin, but also the demonic dimension of evil, as well as physical suffering and death, without reducing it to a ...
Matthias D. Wüthrich
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Народная демонология Полесья в контексте восточнославянских традиционных верований
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2021 This article studies folk demonological beliefs that are widespread on the territory of Polesye, located on the border of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. The traditional culture of this region is of great interest for ethnologists of the broadest profile ...
Ľudmila N. Vinogradova
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Între rai și iad. Angelologie și demonologie hristică (Between Heaven and Hell. Angelology and Christian Demonology) [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2020 The Jewish demonology during Christ's coming corresponds to a warrior messianism, capable of defeating the Roman occupation, seen as a divine punishment for unbelief.
Petru Adrian Danciu
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Buddhist Medical Demonology in The Sūtra of the Seven Buddhas
Religions, 2019 This essay begins with a brief discussion of the marginalization of demonology in the study of both Indian Buddhist traditions and Āyurvedic medicine. Unlike the study of Buddhist traditions in other geographic regions, there has been relatively little ...
Adam C. Krug
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Religions, 2022 I argue that arguments for the existence of God provide indirect support for the existence of other supernatural beings such as spirits. I defend three arguments: (i) the existence of spirits is more likely if there is a supernatural realm; (ii) an ...
Hans Van Eyghen
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John Schuster, Descartes-agonistes: Physico-mathematics, method and corpuscular-mechanism, 1618–1633 [PDF]
, 2013 We report on a 10 ks simultaneous Chandra/HETG-NuSTAR observation of the Bursting Pulsar, GRO J1744-28, during its third detected outburst since discovery and after nearly 18 years of quiescence.
Henry, John
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