Studies in Mysticism and Mystical Experience in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia [PDF]
, 2015 The paper highlights the key perspectives on mysticism typical for Soviet and Post-Soviet religious studies. Recognizing the vagueness of the ”mystical’, Soviet scholars interpreted it as a belief in ”communication’ with ”supernatural powers ...
Malevich, Tatiana
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Book review: Arthur Versluis, Magic and mysticism: an introduction to Western esotericism [PDF]
, 2016 Professor Arthur Versluis’ introduction to Western Esotericism provides a clear account of the historical antecedents of contemporary Western Esotericism, interweaving strands and transmission, and scholars who have illuminated this fascinating field. He
Harrington, Melissa
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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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Book Review: A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism [PDF]
, 2005 A review of A History of Modern Yoga: Patanjali and Western Esotericism by Elizabeth De ...
Coward, Harold
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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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Book Review: Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-Knowledge [PDF]
, 2005 A review of Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-Knowledge by Don Handelman and David ...
Amaladass, Anand
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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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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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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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