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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship between Misaq, Mi'raj and love through Sufi experience [PDF]

open access: yesKom: Časopis za Religijske Nauke, 2015
In their mystical experience, which is the result of knowledge and love, Sufis were focused on updating of the two Qur'anic facts, Misaq and Mi'raj. Through these two spiritual facts they experienced most directly the act of the union with God.
Džilo Hasan
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RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN THE LIGHT OF DISCURSIVE LANGUAGE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper analyzes the possibility of discursive language as media for explaining religious as well as mystical experience and how discursive language has position in the experience.
Hawasi, Hawasi
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Mystical experiences without mysticism: An argument for mystical fictionalism in psychedelics

open access: yesJournal of Psychedelic Studies, 2022
Abstract Mystical experiences frequently precede decreases in human suffering or increased functioning. Therapies that include the ingestion of psychoactive substances in supportive environments often lead to improvements that correlate with the magnitude of the mystical experiences generated.
Bradley Armour Garb, Mitchell Earleywine
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

The Mystical Union in Sufism and Christian Mysticism: Inter-Experiential Reading of Hallaj’s Ḥulūl and Eckhart’s Birth of God

open access: yesEdinost in Dialog
Mystical experience illustrates a fundamental aspect of human relations with the ultimate reality within the framework of religiosity. This article explores the mystical experiences of Hallaj and Meister Eckhart, both of whom came from different ...
Angga Arifka
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn : mapping the spiritual experiences of Mole and Ratty onto a scientific analysis of mysticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece, The wind in the willows, contains a classic description of a religious experience as Ratty and Mole come face-to-face with the Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
Francis, Leslie J.
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

The Mystical Experience of Sophia in the Life and Work of Vladimir Sergeevich Soloviev

open access: yesSpirituality Studies, 2023
The life and work of the prominent Russian religious philosopher Vladimir Sergeevich Soloviev was deeply influenced by his mysterious experience of Sophia – the mystical vision of the personified divine wisdom.
Ján Dolný, Róbert Lapko
doaj  

From Mystical-Cognitive Experience to Mystical Epistemology : Hildegard of Bingen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Resums disponibles en castellà i anglèsHildegarda de Bingen escribió habitualmente desde la perspectiva de su don visionario, pero en ocasiones también reflexionó sobre él. La autora escribe la mayoría de sus obras a partir de una experiencia místico-
Rabassó, Georgina
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