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Mitul enohian al îngerilor răi în viziunile lui Herma / ENOCH’S MYTH OF THE ANGELS IN HERMAS’S VISION [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2016 writing and orality, got in the Christian environment, surviving for centuries, openly, in its interior, without synodal convictions. Almost three hundred years after the affirmed adoption of Christ, the Enochian religious current remained stable, by the
Petru Adrian Danciu
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Law and conspiracy theory: sovereign citizens, freemen on the land, and pseudolaw
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 34-56, March 2025.Abstract This article examines the ‘sovereign citizen’ and ‘freemen on the land’ movements and the operation of ‘pseudolaw’. Against a predominant judicial, governmental, and academic approach that portrays sovereign citizen beliefs as ‘irrational’ and ‘nonsensical’, I argue that such beliefs should be understood in terms of conflicts within the socio ...
TARIK KOCHI
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On the confessional uses and history of witchcraft: Thomas Stapleton's 1594 witchcraft oration [PDF]
, 2018 Thomas Stapleton’s influential 1594 oration “Why Has Magic Grown Today Together with Heresy?” delivered to an audience of Catholic theologians at the University of Leuven is well known to historians of the early modern witch-hunt, particularly for the ...
Machielsen, Jan
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(UN)DOING HISTORY: A CASE FOR EPISTEMOLOGICAL ALTERITY
History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 112-136, March 2024.ABSTRACT This article addresses two primary tensions that currently beset medieval history. The first concerns a contentious debate within the field regarding the relative merits of two interpretative approaches: that which seeks to situate the Middle Ages within a narrative of continuity wherein aspects of the medieval bear some relationship of ...
VANITA SETH
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Almas y demonios ante la materia del mundo
Terra Brasilis, 2022 This article examines how the naturalistic research during the sixteenth century integrated into its agenda the clarification of two central issues of the Christian doctrine: the existence of Hell and the relationship of spiritual entities with the ...
Andrés Vélez-Posada
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The hunters of humanity: creatures of horror in M. R. James's ghost stories [PDF]
, 2017 In his ghost stories, M.R. James disclosed the most irrational and fearful aspects of archaic demonology still haunting the modern world. He turns humans into prey species, hunted and haunted by repulsive insect- and spider-like demons. This paper offers
Oryshchuk, Nataliya
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On a Few RItuals and Various Demons
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2014 On the Book by Danijel Sinani, Demons and Rituals: Periodical Rituals and Demonology of Serbian Traditional Religion. Beograd. Srpski geneaološki centar, 2013.
Mladen Stajić
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Religions, 2019 This paper traces Adriaan Koerbagh’s interpretation of biblical devils and scriptural instances of demonic possession in his 1668 Een Ligt Schijnende in Duystere Plaatsen (A light shining in dark places). Koerbagh’s book is a radical exponent
Ismael del Olmo
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Calas de la demonología en el monacato egipcio [PDF]
, 2015 La demonología cristiana ha sido ampliamente estudiada en el periodo conocido como cristianismo primitivo entre los siglos I-III d. C. Es un momento en el que se ponen las bases de la demonología y los autores del momento discuten sobre el origen del ...
Brotóns Merino, María José
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'A woman like any other' : female sodomy, hermaphroditism and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Bruges [PDF]
, 2017 This article discusses the official and popular responses to a particular sodomy trial held at Bruges in 1618 during which two women, Mayken and Magdaleene, were accused of several sexual and moral transgressions. The interrogation records of the accused
Roelens, Jonas
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