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Gnosticism and esotericism: an example from Russian new religiosity
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 Time and again, the terms gnosticism and esotericism appear in connection with one another. Most esoteric teachings, for example, draw on the higher knowledge of the secrets of nature or deity.
Vadim Zhdanov
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The State, the Church, and the Demarcations of the Occult in Serbia
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture, 2023 The paper examines the complex social dynamics of publicly articulated attitudes toward esotericism in present-day Serbia within the last three decades of its history.
Noel Putnik
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Post-secular esotericism? Some reflections on the transformation of esotericism
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 In the last fifteen years the study of Western esotericism has become an academic discipline in its own right. The vast majority of research conducted within the field is focused on older, historical developments, with recent expressions of esotericism ...
Kennet Granholm
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The art of mystification: esotericism differentiated in the definition of Finnish symbolism
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 This article focuses on Sarajas-Korte’s definitions that proved to be so significant to Finnish art history. In spite of the fact that her research still represents the most extensive and profound work on Finnish Symbolism, the aim here is to question ...
Nina Kokkinen
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 Often, when people nowadays talk of ‘esotericism’, they are using this word either as more or less synonymous with ‘New Age’, or as a term for movements that are based on a secret wisdom that is only accessible to an ‘inner circle’ of initiates.
Kocku von Stuckrad
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Esoteric Vandalism and dialogical graffiti as ruses for symbolic appropriations of public space
Cadernos de Arte Pública, 2020 To think of magic and its uses from the same lever as that of art and activism is to pose it as a support for intuition rather than as a mystical truth.
Montier Cynthia
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Book Review:\u3cem\u3ePilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2016 Book Review of Pilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers. By Mary V. T. Cattan.
Prabhu, Joseph
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, 2013 The criminal nature of narcotics complicates the direct assessment of a drug community, while having a good understanding of the type of people drawn or currently using drugs is vital for finding effective intervening strategies.
Boukhanovsky, A. V. +4 more
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WESTERN ESOTERICISM AS AN OBJECT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES RESEARCH [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2013 This article presents a short excursus into the history of research on western esotericism. At the beginning the basic terms esoterica and esotericism are defi ned.
Pavel Nosachev
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Book Review: \u3cem\u3eModern Hindu Personalism: The History, Life and Thought of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2016 Book Review of Modern Hindu Personalism: The History, Life and Thought of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī. Ferdinando Sardella.
McLaughlin, Michael
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