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Mysterious knocks, flying potatoes and rebellious servants: Spiritualism and social conflict in late Imperial Russia [PDF]
, 2008 Book description: The relationship between states, societies, and individuals in Central and Eastern Europe has been characterised by periods of change and redefinition.
Mannherz, J.
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Realist magic in the fiction of William Dean Howells [PDF]
, 2002 William Dean Howells was committed to determining what would inspire people from different economic, political, and religious backgrounds to imagine each other as respected members of a human community. Scholars have debated whether his realist aesthetic
Palmer, S
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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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O "baixo espiritismo" e a história dos cultos mediúnicos
Horizontes Antropológicos, 2003 O objetivo deste trabalho é explorar algumas das dimensões envolvidas na produção e utilização da categoria "baixo espiritismo" a partir da delimitação de seus enunciantes e de sua temporalidade.
Emerson Giumbelli
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Searching for the Soul in Shades of Grey
European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2022 The years between the 1870s and 1920s have been considered a transformative period for psychology, during which it prepared to leave the house of metaphysics, religious thought, and the moral sciences to join the team of the sciences.
Seyma Afacan
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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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Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stories of Gothic Spiritualism and/as Feminist Counter-Narratives
HumanitiesArthur 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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, 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
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 150-166, March 2026.This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
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Vocalizing the Angels of Mons: Audio Dramas as Propaganda in the Great War of 1914 to 1918
Societies, 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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