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, 2021 The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 750-770, August 2021.
Nahum Welang
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The relevance of Reformed perspectives on demonology for Africa
In die Skriflig, 2019 In the debates about lacunas in Western theological education and the need to decolonise Reformed theological education in South Africa, the necessity of understanding demonology has been pointed out as an important area for more research and ...
P.J. Buys
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MENTAL HEALTH AND THE GOSPEL: BOYLE LECTURE 2020
Zygon®, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 1107-1123, December 2020., 2020 Abstract Mental health has become a domain of professional and scientific endeavor, distinguished in the modern mind from spirituality, which is understood as a more subjective, transcendent, and private concern. This sharp separation has been challenged in recent decades by scientific research, which demonstrates the positive benefits of spirituality ...
Christopher C. H. Cook
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Prezența zmeilor, aspecte ale contaminărilor malefice în basm și descântecul popular românesc / THE PRESENCE OF "ZMEI", ASPECTS OF MALEFIC CONTAMINATIONS IN ROMANIAN FOLK TALES AND INCANTATIONS [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2019 The presence of the dragon („zmeul”) in the Romanian fairy tale is obvious in two important moments of the subsequent construction of the disenchantment.
Petru Adrian Danciu
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BEYOND NARCISSISM: THE MULTI‐LAYERED NARCISSUS REFERENCE IN HERMANN HESSE'S NARZISS UND GOLDMUND*
German Life and Letters, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 270-296, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Freud's theory of narcissism, developed in the 1910s and 1920s, can be seen as a radical break with the Narcissus tradition in that the myth of Narcissus is turned into a theory about man's psychosexual constitution. This prompts the question of whether, or to what extent, Freud's theory influenced subsequent literary treatments of the theme ...
Niclas Johansson
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015 The author describes a complex of specific characteristics of South Slavic demonology which also appears in other Balkan notions about demons.
Anna Plotnikova
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The Hopping Dead. Zombies in the Chinese Culture
Corpus Mundi, 2021 The article examines the image of zombies in Chinese culture, the traditional perception of their appearance and internal characteristics. A wide scope of written sources served as the basis of the study: inscriptions on oracle bones, ancient fortune ...
Asya A. Sarakaeva, Elina A. Sarakaeva
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Demonology, eschatology and vaccinology in African independent Pentecostalism
In die Skriflig, 2022 Public discourses on the reliability of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in dealing with the upsurge of virus cases and deaths are developing and ongoing in many different contexts, as countries around the world are doing their best to build ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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ILCEA, 2022 In the early 16th century, Bernard Rategno, a Dominican inquisitor in Como, wrote the Tractatus de Strigiis. This little treatise on demonology mentions the belief that a sect of men and women (the striges of the title) would go at night to the “game ...
Alessia Belli
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DEMONS AND EXORCISMS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC MIND-SET: PROBING THE WESTERN DEMONOLOGICAL MENTALITY [PDF]
Revista Română de Sociologie, 2016 This study presents a general overview of Roman Catholic demonology and exorcism traditions. The cultural aspects, traditions, and belief structures comprising the collective mentality of early and then Catholic Christianity are examined.
ALEXANDRU RUSU
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