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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

An analytical perspective on the position of the mystical "name of Dahr" in mystical ontology [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت اسرا
The nature of this name is one of the abandoned chapters in the written works of theoretical mysticism. Although” Ibn Arabi “ and the early commentators of his school left short lines introducing this name in their epistemological heritage, but the ...
Mahdi Hassan Ahangari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Critical Mysticism or Critical Ethos? Intercultural Reflections on Stephen Palmquist's Kant and Mysticism

open access: yes, 2021
This contribution offers a sympathetic historical and intercultural reflection on Stephen Palmquist's work Kant and Mysticism. It examines (1) the appropriateness of this portrayal of Kant and mysticism in relation to its historical context (which ...
Nelson, Eric S.
core   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

From Theological Opinions to Political Thought; Attribution of Human Actions to God from the Perspective of Imam Khomeini and Fakhr Razi and Its Impact on Political Thought [PDF]

open access: yes‫سیاست متعالیه‏
The relationship between theological thought and political-social thought and action is among the important and valuable subjects for scientific investigation. How one thinker becomes convinced of specific political thought and action and the creation of
Zahra Bavi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Burnt and Blossoming: Material Mysticism in Trilogy and Four Quartets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper brings two WWII poems into dialogue: H.D.'s Trilogy and Eliot's Four Quartets. Both poems express a creative response to the destruction of war.
Anderson, Elizabeth
core   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mysticism in the Zhuangzi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This dissertation proposes that the Zhuangzi contains some elements of mysticism, but not in the straightforward manner that scholars have typically suggested. A review of theories of mysticism shows that ‘mysticism’ in English-language literature covers
McConochie, Thomas
core   +1 more source

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