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The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between romantic love and polyamory. Our central question is whether traditional norms of monogamy can be excised from romantic love so as to harmonize with polyamory's ethical dimensions (as we construe them).
Michael Milona, Lauren Weindling
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Ventricular Tachycardia due to an Overdose of Tibetan Drugs: A Case Report of Aconitine Poisoning
ABSTRACT Tibetan medicine enjoys a high recognition among Tibetans. Many Tibetan hospitals and medicine shops are dedicated to related research and prescribe Tibetan drugs to patients. Overdose intake of aconite‐containing Tibetan drugs might cause severe poisoning manifesting malignant ventricular arrhythmias.
Panjing Liu +3 more
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The Cross-Cultural Kingship in Early Medieval Kāmarūpa: Blood, Desire and Magic
Kingship in early medieval Kāmarūpa (Assam) was influenced by the collision of orthodox and heterodox Brahmanic traditions with various tribal cultures.
Paolo Eugenio Rosati
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The issue of magic in the Vaiṣṇava Purāṇas : mantra as a magical tool exemplified by Nārāyaṇa Mantra of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa [PDF]
The huge body of texts known as Purāṇas, besides the general information about religious life in ancient India, provides us with rich material concerning religion, philosophy, mysticism and also magical practices in the late ancient and medieval period ...
Czyżykowski, Robert
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The phylogeny of Tetradium containing nine species is presented. One of the nine species, Tetradium celebicum (Koord.) T.G.Hartley ex Brambach & Appelhans, which was previously named Euodia mellifolia var. celebica, is taxonomically and systematically revised.
Lee‐Ping Ang +4 more
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Batılı Oryantalistlerin ve Misyonerlerin Tantracılığa Bakışı
Batılıların Hindistan’la teması MÖ 4. yüzyılda başlamış ve 17.-18. yüzyılda zirveye ulaşmıştır. Özellikle Avrupalıların ticaret şirketi kurmasıyla Hindistan misyonerlerin ve oryantalistlerin ilgi odağı olmuştur.
Beyza Aybike Deveci
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“A Very Naughty Place!” The Attraction to the Frightening Other Reflected in Narratives about Assam
According to many Hindus, travelling to Assam, in North-East India, is dangerous. The Assamese woman might trap the male outsider, using her magic to transform him into a goat and turn him back into a man at night.
Irene Majo Garigliano
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Abstract This article draws on an ethnography of the transmission of Senegalese sabar dancing in France and Switzerland to discuss how the religious pathways of sabar enthusiasts bear witness to many modes of adoption or rejection of Mouride and Baye Fall aesthetics. I focus on several portraits of students in order to highlight three modalities of the
Alice Aterianus‐Owanga
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ASPECTOS CIENTÍFICOS Y BENEFICIOSOS DEL CULTO TANTRICO
Este artículo se propone identificar y aislar lo científico y beneficioso de la falsedad, superstición y misticismo que envuelve al tantrismo. De todas las prácticas religiosas y semireligiosas antiguas de la India, el culto tántrico es el que ha ...
Ratan Lal Basu
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Shabbetai Tsvis nedstigning til Farao – et jødisk eksempel på forløsning gennem urenhed
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As a Jewish example of redemption through impurity, this article analyses the ’strange acts’ of the Jewish mystic Shabbetai Tsvi. These acts included pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, liturgical subversions of synagogue service and ...
Marianne Schleicher
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