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Spirituality and sustainable lifestyle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The paper aimed to provide additional insights into the wide and partly uncovered area of interactions among spirituality, happiness, life satisfaction and sustainability, supported by a survey representing the Hungarian society.
Csutora, Mária, Zsóka, Ágnes
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Spiritualism and spiritual surgeries

open access: yesOBSERVATÓRIO DE LA ECONOMÍA LATINOAMERICANA
In this article we will present Spiritism as a religion and the work of “spiritual surgery” as a healing activity, forming a peculiar type of gift system. To do this, we will use bibliographical research and field analysis, showing the activities and experience of the healing medium João Berbel, resident in Franca – SP and who works in spiritual ...
James Washington Alves Dos Santos   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Le cauchemar de l’égalitarisme : commensuration, autonomie et imagination

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 7-27, March 2026.
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron   +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

The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 35-68, March 2026.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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

Diaspora as soft power a case study of Indian diaspora in the US [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Atrás han quedado los días cuando el poder estaba definido por las fuentes militares, es decir, el poder duro. Ahora el poder en términos de ideas, la persuasión definida como poder suave, influye en el mundo.
Kumari, Kamni
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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

Expansive Ectoplasms: Demystifying the Ghost Story in The Haunted House

open access: yesCaliban: French Journal of English Studies
This 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
doaj   +1 more source

Permeable borders, possible worlds: history and identity in the novels of Michèle Roberts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Since the publication of her first novel, A Piece of the Night, in 1978, Michele Roberts’ fiction has continually returned to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space.
White, Rosie
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