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Phobia of the Supernatural: A Distinct but Poorly Recognized Specific Phobia With an Adverse Impact on Daily Living

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
The psychological and psychiatric literature has seldom appreciated the clinical fact that fears of ghosts and kindred supernatural worries may be a cause of intense discomfort, poor sleep, and socio-occupational impairment.
R. de Oliveira-Souza
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Mysterious knocks, flying potatoes and rebellious servants: Spiritualism and social conflict in late Imperial Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Economy of LIfe: Charismatic Dynamics and the Spirit of Gift [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The dominant mode of globalization has mostly reinforced the disembedding of states and markets from the social practices and civic virtues of civil society writ large.
Pabst, Adrian
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Merveilles du cirque et de la fiction dans quelques récits anglo-saxons contemporains pour adolescents et jeunes adultes

open access: yesStrenae, 2015
This article focuses on the contemporary revival of fantasy in Anglo-Saxon young adult and children’s literature, set against the backdrop of the circus universe, such as Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and a few other stories.
Virginie Douglas
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Retrouver le temple du sacré : la logique des extrêmes dans le roman de Durtal

open access: yesQuêtes Littéraires, 2013
In the late 19th century a reversal of the values linked to the sacred and the profane can be observed. As Religion retreats, Positivism and faith in Progress fill the gap left by the abandoned spiritual belief.
Eléonore Sibourg
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4. Roger Bacon and Medieval Science

open access: yes, 1958
Throughout the Middle Ages there was little interest in theoretical science as such. Not since the Greeks had nature been considered a sufficient object in and of itself for most of the study that we would call scientific.
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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Robert Burns and the Hellish Legion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Folk tales and beliefs are as important a part of cultural history as novels or organised religion. Robert Burns and the Hellish Legion explores some aspects of life in the world in which Burns lived and wrote, the supernatural beliefs which people held,
Burnett, John
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Classification of the direct limits of involution simple associative algebras and the corresponding dimension groups

open access: yes, 2013
A classification of (countable) direct limits of finite dimensional involution simple associative algebras over an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic is obtained. This also classifies the corresponding dimension groups.
A.A. Baranov   +15 more
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Is Supernatural Belief Unreliably Formed

open access: yes, 2019
I criticize 5 arguments for the conclusion that religious belief is unreliably formed and hence epistemically tainted. The arguments draw on scientific evidence from Cognitive Science of Religion. They differ considerably as to why the evidence points to
H. Eyghen
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REPREZENTAREA REALITĂȚII URBANE MOSCOVITE ÎN ROMANUL MAESTRUL ȘI MARGARETA DE MIHAIL BULGAKOV. MAGICUL CU ROL CORECTIV / THE REPREZENTATION OF MOSCOW URBAN REALITY IN THE NOVEL THE MASTER AND MARGARITA ’BY MIHAIL BULGAKOV. THE MAGIC HAVIG A CORECTIVE ROL [PDF]

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The inclusion of the supernatural in Moscow's urban spaces (flats, restaurants, theater halls, the writer’s house, office) is meant to enhance the understanding of reality in its paradoxical nature.
Maria Holhoș, Andra Gabriela Holhoș
doaj   +1 more source

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