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Correspondences, 2016 Scholars agree that the imagination is central to esoteric practice. While the esoteric vis imaginativa is usually attributed to the infux of Neoplatonism in the Italian Renaissance, this article argues that many of its key properties were already in ...
Egil Asprem
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Prayer as Inner Sense Cultivation: An Attentional Learning Theory of Spiritual Experience [PDF]
, 2016 How does prayer change the person who prays? In this article, we report on a randomized controlled trial developed to test an ethnographic hypothesis.
Luhrmann, Tanya Marie, Morgain, Rachel
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Spiritual Practices and the Language Problem
Консультативная психология и психотерапия, 2016 In this article a new approach to the interpretation of religious-mystical experience, which bases on a notion of “mystical practice” as specific underclass of spiritual practices, is being tried out. An analysis of anthropological concepts, in which the
Vasilyev P.S.
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Religions, 2016 This paper is a call for the development of a neuroscientific research protocol for the study of the impact of Tantric practice on the autonomic nervous system.
Jeffrey S. Lidke
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Religionless Christianity and the political implications of theological speech: What Bonhoeffer’s theology yields to a world of fundamentalisms [PDF]
, 2009 This is the author's PDF preprint of an article published in International Journal of Systematic Theology© 2009. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.comThis article seeks to utilise Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity in a ...
Greggs, Tom
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Esoteric Potentiality in Creating and Viewing Angel-themed Photographs
Approaching ReligionThis article explores esoteric potentiality—the perceived possibility of accessing the otherworldly—through a hermeneutic framework that integrates artist intent, the photographic image and audience reception.
Oscar Ortiz-Nieminen +2 more
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Explaining the Esoteric Imagination
Aries, 2017 The imagination is central to esoteric practices, but so far scholars have shown little interest in exploring cognitive theories of how the imagination works.
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Christian Apophaticism in Jean-Luc Marion’s early works [PDF]
, 2023 In this article, I investigate Jean-Luc Marion’s early interpretation of Christian apophaticism with special reference to his reading of Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Zachhuber, Johannes
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, 1997 Reviewed Book: Eslinger, Richard L. Pitfalls in preaching.
Riegert, Eduard R.
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\u27Yes!\u27 and \u27thou\u27 in Dag Hammarskjold\u27s Markings : A theological investigation [PDF]
, 2016 Hammarskjöld’s Markings combines the spiritual, theological and ethical. This article engages with the journal in four stages. First, it briefly introduces the text (context, translation and overall purpose). Second, I explore Hammarskjöld’s faith guided
Ryan, T
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