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Trapped Between Theological and Medical Notions of Possession: A Case of Possession Trance Disorder With a 3-Year Follow-Up [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 Few studies on Possession Trance Disorder (PTD) describe diagnostic and research procedures in detail. This case study presents the clinical picture of a Caucasian Roman-Catholic woman who had been subjected to exorcisms because of her problems with ...
Igor J. Pietkiewicz +2 more
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lo Squaderno, 2014 After a night of neurons firing unchecked around your brain, five to nine a.m. is the time to reassert discipline – to get organized for the day. Ironically, the simplest discipline has unforeseeable consequences – something that can be exploited.
David Ottosson
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Theodore of Mopsuestia First homily on baptism (the 12th Catechetical Homily). Translation, introductory article and comments by S. S. Puchkova [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2023 This publication of the first homily of Theodore of Mopsuestia on baptism (the 12th Catechetical Homily) is a part of the translation project that aims to translate the series of Theodore’s Catechetical Homilies into Russian.
Puchkova Sofia S.
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The Devil and the Doctor: The (De)Medicalization of Exorcism in the Roman Catholic Church
Religions, 2022 Exorcists are once again in demand for their very specific set of skills in (religious) healing. The founding of the International Association of Exorcists (AIE), the development of the “Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation Course” at a Vatican university ...
Nicole Maria Bauer
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The phenomenon of exorcism in catholicism: analysis from the perspective of religious studies [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2019 This article demonstrates the complexity and ambiguity of such religious phenomena as obsession and exorcism. It argues that they need to be extracted from a purely theological consideration into the domain of religious studies.
Pavel Nosachev
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Modern Practice, Archaic Ritual: Catholic Exorcism in America
Religions, 2021 The following ethnographic and folkloric analysis of American exorcism practices post-1998 centers on four Catholic priest-exorcists currently active in the United States.
William S. Chavez
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, 2020 In the biblical material the motif of exorcism—expelling an unwanted spiritual entity from a person or place—is dominated by stories related to Jesus. Of all the activities associated with Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels exorcism appears to be the single activity that took the greatest amount of his time.
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Religions, 2021 This paper examines the benefits of ethnographic film for the study of religion. It argues that the exploration of gaps between colloquial descriptions of divinities and their practical manifestation in ritual is instructive of the way religious ...
Arik Moran
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Ce este demonologia? O altfel de viziune asupra științei demonologice [What is demnology? A different view on demonological science] [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2021 The article proposes a phenomenological vision on the history of demonology and the demonic imaginary starting with the shamanic model. Three qualities of the shaman are important in the birth of demonology: sense perception, knowledge and self-control ...
Petru Adrian Danciu
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The Concept of Ruqyah in Islam and Exorcism in Catholicism
Journal of Comparative Study of Religions, 2020 Ruqyah is commonly understood merely as an Islamic ritual used to expel demons or jinn that disturb the body of Muslims similar to Exorcism in Catholicism.
Syamsul Hadi Untung, Abdul Muiz
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