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Light Out of Plenitude: Towards an Epistemology of Mystical Inclusivism [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper I argue that from the point of view of a theist, inclusivism with respect to the issue whether adherents of different religious traditions can have veridical experience of God (or Ultimate Reality) now, is more plausible than the Alstonian ...
Salamon, Janusz
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Encountering the Divine, Resisting Patriarchy: Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Prophetic Catholicism

Religions, 2023
While Rosemary Radford Ruether is widely, and rightly, acknowledged as a prophetic Catholic scholar–activist, her interest in and experience of mysticism is rarely emphasized.
Jim Robinson
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Mystical orientation and the perceiving process : a study among Anglican clergymen [PDF]

, 2012
This study examines the hypothesised link between mystical orientation and the perceiving process within the Jungian model of psychological type. Data were provided by 232 Anglican clergymen serving in the Church in Wales who completed both the Francis ...
Bourke R, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Happold FC, James W, Keirsey D, Keith Littler, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Myers IB, Stace WT   +13 more
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Mystical Experience and Schizophrenia [PDF]

Schizophrenia Bulletin, 1981
Autobiographical accounts of acute mystical experience and schizophrenia are compared in order to examine the similarities between the two states. The appearance of a powerful sense of noesis, heightening of perception, feelings of communion with the "divine," and exultation may be common to both.
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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez, Stephen W. Enciso   +1 more
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The Paranormal is (Still) Normal: The Sociological Implications of a Survey of Paranormal Experiences in Great Britain [PDF]

, 2014
Historically, there has been limited sociological interest in the paranormal and no systematic study of reported paranormal experiences. There are also few medium-to-large-scale survey results with nationally representative populations focusing on ...
Bainbridge W. S., Benner P., Brierley P., Castro M.A., Connor J. W., Cook C.M., Gigerenzer G., Goode E., Greeley A., Greeley A., Haraldsson E., Haraldsson E., Hay D., Heelas P., Hess D. J., Houtman D., Hufford D., Irwin H.J., Irwin H.J., James W., Lachman M. E., Lachman M.E., Marty M., Moody E.J., Moody E.J., O'Connor A.R., Silver N., Wooffitt R., Wooffitt R., Wooffitt R., Zimmer T.A.   +30 more
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Saplings of significance: Nurturing cultural value of new tree plantings through participatory opportunities

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Tree‐planting initiatives are a crucial part of international sustainability and climate action efforts. Yet, many of these initiatives fail to achieve their long‐term sustainability and climate goals. The role of community value is an often‐overlooked factor in promoting the success of new tree plantings.
Claire L. Narraway, Eline van Remortel, Sophie B. Cowling, Divya Kumar, Hanna Mroczka, Emilija Rudzinskaite, Georgina Sturgeon, Sasha Woods, Daniel B. Hayhow   +8 more
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Toward an epistemology of mysticism: Knowing God as mystery [PDF]

, 2010
While some philosophers suggest that mystical experience may provide evidence for belief in God, skeptics doubt that there is adequate warrant for even accepting the claim of a mystical experience as evidence for anything, except perhaps for some kind of
Tobin, Theresa
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The Mystical Path of Total Abandonment to God in Jean-Pierre de Caussade and the Bhagavad-Gita [PDF]

, 1990
One of the creative tensions in Hinduism is the concept of God as Impersonal Absolute vs. the concept of God as Personal. In the Bhagavad-Gita (written c. 400-200 B.C.), the concept of God as personal, loving and compassionate is emphasized.
Fastiggi, Robert L.
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