The Rhetoric of Disenchantment: Ghost Belief and Secular Critique in Early Twentieth-Century China. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract This study presents the first large‐scale empirical analysis of how ghosts and spirits were debated during China's early twentieth‐century secular transformation. Using a novel dataset of over 2000 digitized texts—including newspapers, periodicals, and essays from 1890 to 1949—we combine close reading, AI‐assisted annotation, and statistical ...
Hong Z, Chen Y.
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Spiritualism and a mid-Victorian crisis of evidence [PDF]
, 2004 Historians writing on Victorian spiritualism have said little about the reported phenomena of the seance room, despite such events having been the primary reason given by spiritualists for their beliefs. Rather, such beliefs have been seen as a response,
Lamont, P
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Public religious embodiment: A contemporary discussion
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022 Spiritualism is an inseparable part of human existence. The reduction of this dimension (spiritualism) will negatively affect human existence. This causes the emergence of new phenomenon, or even culture, in the life of modern society.
Abdul Mufid +4 more
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Eugenics and the afterlife: Lombroso, Doyle, and the spritualist purification of the race [PDF]
, 2007 No abstract ...
Ferguson, C.
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Self-Writing Machines: Technology and the Question of the Self
communication +1, 2015 In order to show that technology mediates between man and machine, I will discuss in this text a literally other or alter-knowledge system that also heavily relied on self-writing machines: spiritualism.
Christian Kassung
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”Hvem pokker gider bli spiritist”. Arne Garborgs möte med spiritismen
Edda, 2021 Sammanfatning Artikeln utgör en idéhistorisk undersökning av Arne Garborgs intresse för spiritismen under 1890-talets första hälft. Artikeln argumenterar för att Garborg anlägger samma förhållningssätt till spiritismen som den samtida ...
Henrik Johnsson
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Spiritual and Religious Transformation in Women Who Were Parentally Bereaved as Adolescents [PDF]
, 2004 This article is based on a larger research study that focused on how an adolescent girl’s identity development is influenced by the death of a parent. A sample of 18 women was recruited for the study.
Cait, Cheryl-Anne
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Introducing the modified paranormal belief scale: distinguishing between classic paranormal beliefs, religious paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity among undergraduates in Northern Ireland and Wales [PDF]
, 2009 Previous empirical studies concerned with the association between paranormal beliefs and conventional religiosity have produced conflicting evidence. Drawing on Rice's (2003) distinction between classic paranormal beliefs and religious paranormal beliefs,
Francis, Leslie J. +2 more
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SPİRİTÜEL BİR PİYASA VE UZLAŞI ALANI OLARAK POP TASAVVUF
Momentdergi, 2023 1970’lerden sonra hem Türkiye’de hem de dünya genelinde dini, spiritüel, metafizik pratik ve söylemler popüler kültürün periferisinden merkezine doğru bir seyirle ilerler.
Feride Güner
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Studies in Mysticism and Mystical Experience in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia [PDF]
, 2015 The paper highlights the key perspectives on mysticism typical for Soviet and Post-Soviet religious studies. Recognizing the vagueness of the ”mystical’, Soviet scholars interpreted it as a belief in ”communication’ with ”supernatural powers ...
Malevich, Tatiana
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