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Metempsychosis, Race, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

open access: yes, 2019
In this study, I argue that in Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee (1836), Edgar Allan Poe’s “Morella,” (1835), “Ligeia” (1838), and “Eleonora” (1842), Herman Melville’s Confidence Man (1857), and Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman (1899), the trope ...
Walsh, Christine Michelle
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The doctrine of the transmigration of soul according to Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (killed 587/1191) and his followers [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This paper investigates the attitudes of the Illuminationists towards metempsychosis. It considers Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī's (executed 587/1197) treatment of issue in his Ḥikmat al-ishrāq, Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al-Shahrazūrī's (d. after 688/1288) notion
Schmidtke, Sabine
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Contemporary Youth Identity in the Republic of Tuva, Russia

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2017
Youth of ethnic Tuvan heritage within the Tuvan Republic (part of the Russian Federation) aged 6 to 24 represent a dynamic force which has been shaped by two factors. One is the ancient Turkic heritage of Tuvan culture.
Katherine Zeahan Leung
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Metempsychosis in Antique Greece and Relations with India

open access: yes, 2020
Metempsihoza, poznata iz indijske tradicije kao reinkarnacija, pojavljuje se u antičkoj Grčkoj najprije kao uvezeno mistično vjerovanje i kult kod orfika, a onda i kao filozofska doktrina. Metempsihoza podrazumijeva besmrtnost duše (psykhḗ), niz umiranja
Kokić, Tonći, Tonći Kokić
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Islam and the Conception of Metempsychosis

open access: yesBulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 1995
“Tanasukh” and “Taqammus”, are terms that mean metempsychosis in Arabic. This concept is accepted by the Alawite and the Druze, but rejected by the Sunnis, who considered this concept as heretical and those who believe in the concept as heretics. There is some debate among scholars about the origins and the exact meanings of terms “Tanasukh” and ...
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The Christianity among reincarnation and metempsychosis in context of Tertullian’s contest with Plato

open access: yes, 2010
The aim of this article is to show what the standpoint of Christianity in first centuries was among pagan conviction and teaching about reincarnation and metempsychosis.
Filipowicz, Adam M.
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Very Nice Indeed: Cyprian Latewood's Masochistic Sublime, and the Religious Pluralism of Against the Day

open access: yesOrbit, 2013
My paper deals with mythological/religious imagery and syncretic soteriologies in Thomas Pynchon’s 2006 novel Against the Day, focusing in particular on the character of Cyprian Latewood, bisexual spy, Orpheus stand-in, and masochist par excellence ...
Michael Jarvis
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