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Performing the Spirit: Theatre, the Occult, and the Ceremony of Isis
Cahiers 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
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Subsistence Through Disappearance: Theology of the Unseen in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT The present study contends that the theology of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s cinema is structured by a reductio ad absurdum logic, whereby the presence of certain qualities is proven by the portrayal of their absence. It is argued that Antonioni's intention to show what is by specifying what is not may have been rooted in a modernist ...
Vuk Uskoković
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Expansive Ectoplasms: Demystifying the Ghost Story in The Haunted House
Caliban: French Journal of English StudiesThis article analyses the dialogue between literary tradition and innovation which is established with the genre of the ghost story in the collection of short stories entitled The Haunted House coordinated by Charles Dickens.
Camille Rivoire
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Studia 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
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT There has been no nationally representative examination of paranormal beliefs in Canada for over two decades, even though Canada has undergone major social shifts in that time, such as greater secularization, which could affect the prevalence of paranormal beliefs.
Tony Silva, Emily Huddart
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Medya ve Din Araştırmaları DergisiThe African religious landscape is partly characterized by a plurality of vibrant neo-Pentecostal and charismatic movements. Many of these movements are founded, led or influenced by perceived gifted individuals who claim to have had a firsthand ...
Floribert Patrick C. Endong
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Mind Reading in Stage Magic: The “Second Sight” Illusion, Media, and Mediums
communication +1, 2015 This article analyzes the late-nineteenth-century stage illusion “The Second Sight,” which seemingly demonstrates the performers’ telepathic abilities.
Katharina Rein
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Journal of Clinical Nursing, Volume 35, Issue 5, Page 2496-2509, May 2026.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
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“Trabalhadores, Maçonaria e Espiritismo em Pelotas: 1877-1937”
REHMLAC, 2011 This paper deals with the relationship between Freemasonry, Spiritualism, and urban workers in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1877 when the spiritual doctrine was introduced in the city by two professionals in Spain. In 1937, when, according to
Marcelo Freitas Gil
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19, 2013 When W. T. Stead died on the Titanic he was the most famous Englishman on board. A mass of contradictions and a crucial figure in the history of the British press, Stead was a towering presence in the cultural life of late-Victorian and Edwardian ...
James Mussell, Laurel Brake
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