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Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stories of Gothic Spiritualism and/as Feminist Counter-Narratives

open access: yesHumanities
Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, is a determined rationalist, yet Doyle was himself a convert to spiritualism. Doyle’s interest in spiritualism informs four, somewhat neglected Gothic tales written during the last decades of ...
Adrian Tait
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The secret of Beroes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The sketch concerns spiritualism and mediumship in the novel Faraon by Bolesław Prus. Object of analysis is especially Beroes, Chaldean magician and sage, who is one of the characters appearing in presented world.
Bourkane, Mateusz
core   +2 more sources

How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic concerns. This article examines the epistemic status of psychedelic experiences and suggests a skeptical attitude towards beliefs formed under ...
Jan Christoph Bublitz
wiley   +1 more source

Comfort Needs of Renal Transplant Recipients: A Qualitative Analysis Guided by Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To analyse the comfort needs of patients following renal transplantation, guided by Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort. Design A qualitative design was employed. Methods This study was conducted at a Brazilian university hospital's renal transplant outpatient clinic.
Cecília Carla Barroso Calazans   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vocalizing the Angels of Mons: Audio Dramas as Propaganda in the Great War of 1914 to 1918

open access: yesSocieties, 2014
Sound drama production prior to the onset of the “Radio Age” underwent a pioneering development during the Great War. This was achieved by the making, publication and distribution of short audio dramas acted with sound effects and music in front of early
Tim Crook
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Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performing the Spirit: Theatre, the Occult, and the Ceremony of Isis

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2014
Looking at two distinctly different approaches to the occult and performance, this article demonstrates that a range of late-Victorians turned to theatrical performance as an avenue to mystical communication.
Dennis Denisoff
doaj   +1 more source

Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 113-133, February 2026.
This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
wiley   +1 more source

Esthétique de l’imaginaire et enjeux spiritualistes : La Terre avant le déluge de Figuier et L’Univers de Pouchet

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2017
Science popularization books, La Terre avant le déluge by Louis Figuier and L’Univers: les infiniment grands et les infiniment petits by Félix-Archimède Pouchet, represent the success of science populariza-tion publishing of this period and the ...
Bénédicte Percheron
doaj   +1 more source

Law and order, magical spirits, and false flag operations: On the co‐occurrence of authoritarianism, spirituality, and conspiracy beliefs and their association with support of violent protests

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract In Western democracies, commentators have noted an unprecedented diversity in protest movements opposing ecological and health regulations, including traditional right‐wing authoritarians alongside conspiracy and spiritual believers. Some of these beliefs appear to be incompatible with one another, since authoritarianism is a hallmark of ...
Marius Frenken, Roland Imhoff
wiley   +1 more source

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