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Ghosts in the streets of Athens: Ghostlore and social media [PDF]
Ghostlore or ghost-lore is, in short, a subgenre of folklore that focuses on ghostly tales which can be found in both pre-industrial and contemporary contexts.
Nounanaki Aphrodite-Lidia +1 more
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Ethnomedical Specialists and their Supernatural Theories of Disease
Religious healing specialists such as shamans often use magic. Evolutionary theories that seek to explain why laypersons find these specialists convincing focus on the origins of magical cognition and belief in the supernatural.
Aaron D. Lightner +2 more
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Pathways to care and supernatural beliefs among patients with psychotic disorders in Nepal
Longer pathways to care worsen the course of psychotic illness as well. The study aimed to assess the pathways to care, supernatural beliefs, and impact on the duration of untreated psychosis in patients with schizophrenia.
A. Gupta +5 more
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This article analyzes Marian art in Spain from the tenth to nineteenth centuries in order to show how popular piety represented Mary’s motherhood. Through art, including architecture, painting, sculpture, and oral preaching, a popular image of Mary ...
Antonio Moreno-Almárcegui +1 more
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William Carleton, Folklore, the Famine, and the Irish Supernatural [PDF]
This article examines the significance of the supernatural in the works of the nineteenth-century Irish author William Carleton, and in particular the ways in which his grounding in folklore and his reflection of the Great Famine are important in his ...
Fegan, Melissa
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THE MACHINE IN THE GHOST: TRANSHUMANISM AND THE ONTOLOGY OF INFORMATION
An ontology of information belies our common intuitions about reality today and animates and governs both explicit scholarly study in philosophy and the sciences as well as the ideologies that are growing out of them.
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The Reflection of Edmund Burke’s Sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Selected Poetry
This paper explores Edmund Burke’s concept ‘the sublime’ in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poetry. Coupled with his concept of ‘the beautiful’, Burke’s the sublime features conspicuous in creative arts.
Aziz ur Rehman, Sania Gul, Lubna Ayaz
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Inflaton as the Affleck-Dine baryogenesis field in hilltop supernatural inflation [PDF]
In this paper, we investigate the parameter space in the framework of hilltop supernatural inflation in which the inflaton field can play the role of Affleck-Dine field to produce successful baryogenesis. The suitable value of reheating temperature could
Chia-Min Lin, K. Kohri
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain
When Vernon Lee visited Southern Spain in 1889, she found the Catholic practices of the country extremely unsettling. The overloaded decoration of the churches and the preference for representations of bleeding Christs were, in Lee’s eyes, ‘obscene’ and ‘
Leire Barrera-Medrano
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Body, Soul and Spirit. Henri de Lubac’s Vision of Tripartite Anthropology
The article discusses “tripartite anthropology” developed by Henri de Lubac, with particular emphasis on the concept of the “spirit”. The analysis carried out herein aims firstly to reconstruct a coherent anthropological vision from the fragments ...
Andrzej Persidok
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