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Initiatory Materials: An Ethnography of Contemporary Alchemy in Sweden
Correspondences, 2018 This article is an ethnographic study of spagyric alchemical practice, sometimes referred to by my informants as “the wet path,” which is centred on the making of elixirs.
Olivia Cejvan
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Panentheism and the undoing of disenchantment [PDF]
, 2017 In this article I draw on historical and conceptual arguments to show, first, that disenchantment and the influential view of the relationship between science and religion to which disenchantment gives rise are rooted in the metaphysics of theism. I then
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
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Esoterismo. Giornata di studi intorno al volume 25 degli Annali della Storia d’Italia Einaudi [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2011 [Esotericism. One-day Workshop about the Annale n. 25 of the Storia d'Italia Einaudi]. This section contains the proceedings of the one-day workshop on the book Esoterismo ("Esotericism"), published as the Annale n. 25 in the collection "History of Italy"
Castellano, Carolina +6 more
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JEJAK-JEJAK PLURALISME AGAMA DALAM SUFISME
Khazanah: Jurnal Studi Islam dan Humaniora, 2019 This article intends to explore Sufism about the pluralism of religion. Khazanah Sufism is known synonymous with the esoteric approach in religion. Through this esoteric approach, the unity of religions or pluralism is very likely to be achieved, because
Ilham Masykuri Hamdie
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Alkimia Operativa and Alkimia Speculativa. Some Modern Controversies on the Historiography of Alchemy [PDF]
, 2010 The accent on scientific and empirical character of alchemy, especially from the field of the history of science, promotes the idea that one can understand the cryptic and metaphorical language of alchemy mainly through the laboratory chemical practice ...
Calian, Florin George
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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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Clinical Endocrinology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Iodine deficiency, once considered eliminated in the United Kingdom, has re‐emerged, particularly among women of reproductive age, in whom requirements are increased during pregnancy and lactation. The declining consumption of dairy and white fish, the emerging use of unfortified plant‐based milk alternatives, and the absence of a national ...
Peter N. Taylor +11 more
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