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Mediumship: review of quantitatives studies published in the 21st century [PDF]
, 2015 Background Mediumship can be defined as the alleged ability to communicate with deceased persons. The last decade has been particularly productive for this field of research and the study of mediumship can help the understanding of the human mind-brain ...
Gonçalves, Lídia Maria +4 more
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Can jinn be a tonic? The therapeutic value of spirit-related beliefs, practices and experiences
Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 Religion and spirituality are increasingly associated with mental health, yet spirit-related practices, beliefs and experiences (SPBEs) are regarded with more suspicion.
Anastasia Philippa Scrutton
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A survey of dissociation, boundary-thinness, and psychological wellbeing in spiritualist mental mediumship [PDF]
, 2011 The purpose of this study was to explore the personality and psychological wellbeing of Spiritualist mental mediums compared to nonmedium Spiritualists.
Roxburgh, EC +4 more
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From beyond the grave: the legal regulation of mediumship
, 2012 In recent years there has been an increased interest in mediumship. This has been part of a broader fascination with paranormal issues that has been fostered by new modes of dissemination and communication.
Osborn, G., Roberts, S., Greenfield, S.
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OCCULTISM AND MEDIUMSHIP IN FERNANDO PESSOA
Holos, 2016 This work is the result of a research on the influence that the occultism had on the work of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. To delimitate the study, we selected papers of Fernando Pessoa, which suggested that the poet considered himself medium ...
Alisson Diêgo Dias de Medeiros
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Afro-Brazilian Religions and the Prospects for a Philosophy of Religious Practice
Religions, 2023 In this paper, we take our cue from Kevin Schilbrack’s admonishment that the philosophy of religion needs to take religious practices seriously as an object of investigation.
José Eduardo Porcher, Fernando Carlucci
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Divine intimacy, frustration and the madness of the city: Changing transhuman kinship in China
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.This essay shows the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China. The first section discusses how ties to spirits are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship, but literal parts of a kinship system that invoke responsibilities of care, based on links of both
Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 269-292, March 2026.Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
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Femminilità profetiche, magia ed eversione
Laboratoire ItalienEuro-Mediterranean history is full of figures who, over time and in countless variations, have embodied forms of direct contact with the non-seen. Transcendent or immanent, representations of the supernatural are to be found in the imagination, in ...
Alfonsina Bellio
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PSICOSE, MEDIUNIDADE E PARANORMALIDADE: CONEXÕES POSSÍVEIS - DOI 10.5752/P.1983-2478.2014v9n16p310
Interações, 2015 RESUMO Este artigo consiste numa revisão bibliográfica que visa o encontro de semelhanças, diferenças e paralelos entre três fenômenos: psicose, paranormalidade e mediunidade, baseado no trabalho de conclusão de curso em psicologia.
ANA JULIA DA SILVA PEREIRA +2 more
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