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The Structure and Mystical Themes In Attar's Mathnavi of Musibat-Nama [PDF]

open access: yesادبیات عرفانی, 2012
Mathnavi of Musibat-Nama in forty episodes and in a coherent and organized structure exposes clearly Attar's mystical views and experiences. The genuineness of Attar's Musibat-Nama is due to new dynamic experiences through which Attar has explained both ...
Bahman Nozhat
doaj   +1 more source

“Many Know Much but Do Not Know Themselves”: Self-Knowledge, Humility, and Perfection in the Medieval Affective Contemplative Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Today, philosophers interested in self-knowledge usually look to the scholastic tradition, where the topic is addressed in a systematic and familiar way.
Van Dyke, Christina
core  

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

Resolving Religious Disagreements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Resolving religious disagreements is difficult, for beliefs about religion tend to come with strong biases against other views and the people who hold them. Evidence can help, but there is no agreed-upon policy for weighting it, and moreover bias affects
Dormandy, Katherine
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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

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
doaj   +1 more source

Neural correlates of mystical experience [PDF]

open access: yesNeuropsychologia, 2016
Mystical experiences, or subjectively believed encounters with a supernatural world, are widely reported across cultures and throughout human history. Previous theories speculate that executive brain functions underpin mystical experiences. To evaluate causal hypotheses, structural studies of brain lesion are required.
Irene, Cristofori   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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

Psychedelic therapy from an existential psychological viewpoint : a theoretical analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Clinical research into the therapeutic applications of classical psychedelics has slowly but steadily resumed over the last couple of decades. Continuing the research that went dormant in the late 1960‟s, modern trials are looking into the use of high ...
Berg, Stian Hyman
core   +1 more source

Preliminary study of religious, spiritual and mystical experiences. Thematic analysis of Poles adult’s narratives

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Personality Psychology, 2016
The aim of this study was to examine narratives of the personal religious, spiritual and mystical experiences of adult Poles (N = 74) and their impact on narrative identity.
Marta Magdalena Boczkowska   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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