The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 427-438, June 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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A Comparative Study of Ghiyath al-Din Dashtaki’s and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli’s Views on the Factors of Spiritual Wayfaring from a Foundational Perspective [PDF]
Comparative TheologyThe spiritual journey in Islamic wisdom aims at reaching the highest stage of perfection, which is direct intuitive knowledge of the Divine Reality. Achieving this goal demands accurate cognition, spiritual refinement, and guidance under a qualified ...
Mehri Mehrabi Fodani +2 more
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 46-54, June 2026.ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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The struggle of Freemasonry and Islamic ideology in the twentieth century during colonialization in Indonesia. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Thohir A +4 more
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The Relationship between Virtue and Happiness in Aristotle and Al-Fārābī’s Views [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2016 Throughout the history, different schools including both descriptive and non-descriptive ones, have been concerned with revealing relationship between happiness and virtue.
Ali Sabri, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Alavi
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Psychic phenomena: meditation, perception actuality: an Australian study
, 2007 This thesis presents the findings of an investigation into contemporary psychic phenomena as reported by Australian students. It asks the question: 'do people experience psychic phenomena?' The study is an empirical one of reported psychic phenomena ...
Nattress, Emma
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A study of Christian mysticism in the b-text of Piers Plowman [PDF]
, 1970 Most twentieth-century criticism of Christian mysticism in the B-text of William Langland's Piers Plowman focuses on manuscript divisions and their equations with pre-existing mystical triads, particular scenes, or significant dreams.
Wasson, Mary Morris +1 more
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, 2022 Due to their intensity, fire and burning are preferred expressions for the mystical experience. This essay investigates the paradigm of ardour in the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo, and analyses its connections with the purification of the heart, the ...
Huian, Georgiana
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Religious Zeal, Affective Fragility, and the Tragedy of Human Existence. [PDF]
Hum Stud, 2023 Tietjen RR.
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