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Mystical Theology of St. Simeon New Theologian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article deals with the problem of the divine light in the mystical works of St Symeon the New Theologian in the context of the Eastern Christian ascetical tradition.
Volokolamsk, Metropolitan Hilarion of
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This book examines the philosophy of the nineteenth-century Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna and brings him into dialogue with Western philosophers of religion, primarily in the recent analytic tradition. Sri Ramakrishna’s expansive conception of God as the
Maharaj, Ayon
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Exploring Processes and Dynamics of Mystical Contemplative Meditation: Some Christian-Buddhist Parallels in Relation to Transpersonal Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper explores Christian contemplative meditation, focusing on the prayer of Recollection as it is developed especially by Evelyn Underhill and St. Teresa of Avila. It outlines the practice and explores possible theoretical and therapeutic dynamics,
Stoeber, Michael
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Translation and cultural adaptation of the States of Consciousness Questionnaire (SOCQ) and statistical validation of the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30) in Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yes, 2017
Background The States of Consciousness Questionnaire (SOCQ) was developed to assess the occurrence features of the change in consciousness induced by psilocybin, and includes the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ), developed to assess the ocurrence ...
E. Schenberg   +3 more
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Mystical Experience: Its Nature Features [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت معاصر, 2011
No doubt mysticism is the essence of religious experience and this experience for both those who have religious beliefs and those who have not such beliefs typically causes changes in life.
Hadi Vakili
doaj  

Union with the transcendent God in Philo and John’s Gospel

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
This article analyses the experience of divine presence within an intimate divine-human relationship, as conceptualised in Philo’s writings, and compares this experience with mystical passages in John’s Gospel. The article explains their understanding of
Pieter G.R. de Villiers
doaj   +1 more source

Metaphor and Apophatic Discourse: Putting Sells in Dialogue with Lakoff and Johnson [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In the book, Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Michael A. Sells presents a performative theory of apophatic discourse. His idea is that apophatic discourse functions as a semantic analogue to mystical experience through \"meaning events.\" Although he ...
Carroll, Thomas D.
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Teresa of Jesus and Rāb`ia al-`Adawiyya: completions of a comparative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Cette article, qui contribue à la connaissance, au respect et au dialogue entre les cultures, offert une présentation et quelques conclusions d’une étude comparée sur Thérèse de Jésus et Rābi‘a al-‘Adawiyya.
Salto Sánchez del Corral, Ana
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