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Mystical strategies and performative discourse in the theologia mystica of Teresa of Avila: A Wittgensteinian analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The thesis argues that a Wittgensteinian approach to the 'mystical' writings of a 'mystical theologian' such as Teresa of Avila reveals that rather than exhibiting an ontological mysticism these writings are better understood as enacting what are termed '
Tyler, Peter Mark, Tyler, Peter Mark
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The psychoactive effects of repeated ketamine infusions and their mechanistic role in the treatment of alcohol use disorder: Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Ketamine assisted psychotherapy is a promising new treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). The psychoactive effects of repeated intravenous (IV) ketamine infusions in people with AUD and their mechanistic role in treating AUD are largely unknown.
Cassie Bloy   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Unknown and Known God in the Abrahamic Religions

open access: yesEdinost in Dialog
This study interrogates the portrayal of the duality of God in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by the German theologian Rudolf Otto. Otto argues that God is essentially unknowable, but to forge a relationship with God, the Abrahamic traditions ...
Ismail Lala
doaj   +1 more source

Crosscultural Studies of Religion and Theology / Islam and Judaism: Cross-cultural exchanges in the Middle Ages - A very brief survey

open access: yes, 2022
The article briefly discusses the main religious aspects of cultural exchanges between Judaism and Islam in the Middle Ages, namely, in commandments, law, scriptural contents, polemics, theology, philosophy, and mysticism. The article suggests that while
Mazor, Amir
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God Knows Best

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Name is Like a Talisman: A Jewish Family’s Cosmopolitan Journey Through Diaspora

open access: yesMigrating Minds
This article tells the story of a diasporic Jewish family across generations, continents, and languages through a shared name—Katherine—showing how names serve as talismans, linking present and past.
Whatley, Katherine G.T.
doaj   +1 more source

Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
wiley   +1 more source

Messianic Footsteps in the Third Solitude: Canadian Jewish Mysticism in Tosher Hasidism

open access: yesCanadian Jewish Studies, 2017
Critics have suggested that in Canadian literature there are “two solitudes” of Anglophone and Francophone linguistic and ethnic clusters, which give way to the unique “third solitude” of Montreal Jewry.
Aubrey Glazer
doaj   +1 more source

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