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The global history of religion: back to the future? [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2023 The article reconstructs the concept of J. Strube, a leading representative of the younger generation of esotericism researchers. In the first part of the article, his critical program is analyzed, it is established that he systematically deconstructed ...
Pavel Nosachev
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Personal and relational experiences on meditation journeys following developmental trauma: An IPA study of adults who experienced an inconsistent evolved developmental niche. [PDF]
Psychol PsychotherAbstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Frastali AM, Rawal A.
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Misconceptions About Obesity and Weight Stigma in Brazilian Healthcare Professionals [PDF]
Clin ObesABSTRACT People living with obesity (PLWO) frequently experience weight stigma (WS) in healthcare settings, leading to disparities in treatment. Although research shows that healthcare professionals (HCPs) often hold stigmatising views, this issue remains underexplored in Brazil.
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Religions, 2017 A celebration and critical evaluation of Sthaneshwar Timalsina’s brilliant book, Tantric Visual Culture: A Cognitive Approach. In this groundbreaking work, Timalsina utilizes the lens of cognitive studies to shed interpretive light on the Tantric ...
Jeffrey S. Lidke
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Embodying Devī: Śākta Narratives of Healing and Transformation
Religions, 2022 This article explores how twelve practitioners of a contemporary Western Śākta community relate to Devī, experience Her presence in their lives, embody Her through the practice of deity yoga, and find their manner of relating to self, others, and the ...
Sophie-Anne Perkins
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Purity and impurity in nondualistic Śaiva Tantrism [PDF]
, 2015 Indian civilisation has been strongly characterised by the work of containment erected by the Brahmanical elite over the almost two thousand years of its grandiose attempt at culturally and so- cially dominating the Indian world as a whole.
Torella, Raffaele
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Genealogies of Truth: Theology, Philosophy and History
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 708-727, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Modern Christian theology still seeks to escape from the historical constitution of truth. This not only contradicts the Incarnation, but has its own genealogical origins in a dubious loss of Christian philosophy as an integral enterprise. In general, genealogy can be seen as negative or positive.
John Milbank
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Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation. [PDF]
Med Anthropol QAbstract Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals and psychosocial interventions, a new therapeutic modality that has gained prominence over the past two ...
Seale-Feldman A.
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The Coherence of Buddhism: Relativism, Ethics, and Psychology
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 321-341, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how a skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in Buddhist thought and practice are often considered to be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On the one hand, there is an aspiration to nirvana and a philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” and ...
Jonathan C. Gold
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Religions, 2021 This paper studies complex narratives connecting the Hindu deity Krishna, his melodious flute, and the porous, sonic human body in the popular devotional sect, Bengal Vaishnavism. From the devotee–lover responding to Krishna’s flute call outside, envying
Sukanya Sarbadhikary
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