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Esotericism in Botswana

Aries, 2021
Abstract The article argues that “esotericism” can usefully be applied to a number of religious currents in Southern Africa. With a focus on Botswana, we survey a range of practices, from traditional “shamanic” healing to Pentecostal NRM s to New Age spiritualities and neoshamanism, some presented here for the first time.
Agnieszka Podolecka, Leslie Nthoi
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Esotericism

Philosophy, 1959
Some readers, even though well versed in philosophy, may be bewildered by Wittgenstein's posthumous book on the philosophy of mathematics and unable to find a dominant theme running through even a part of it; to list the main contents–headings would make them none the wiser.
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Esotericism

2021
The historical semantics of “esoteric/esotericism” and the related “occult/occultism” are treated. Then two basic scientific approaches are introduced: the comparative and the historical. The religious formation of secrecy and the claim to higher knowledge, followed by as well as conceptualizations of esotericism as the core of all religions, are ...
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Hidden Esotericism

European Journal of English Studies, 2011
Witches have always represented a merciless, selfish and unscrupulous form of femininity, ready to undergo occult rituals in order to kill, provoke diseases, conjure up demons and/or foretell the future. Despite their sinister aspect and evil energies, postmodern witches have now partially lost their malignant powers and have gained an intertextual ...
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On Esotericism

Political Theory, 1998
There was a famous discussion between Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer in Davos which revealed the lostness and emptiness of this remarkable representative of established academic philosophy to everyone who had eyes. Cassirer had been a pupil of Hermann Cohen, the founder of the neo-Kantian school.
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