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The Cross-Cultural Kingship in Early Medieval Kāmarūpa: Blood, Desire and Magic
Religions, 2017 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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 571-588, September 2024.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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The issue of magic in the Vaiṣṇava Purāṇas : mantra as a magical tool exemplified by Nārāyaṇa Mantra of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa [PDF]
, 2014 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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Batılı Oryantalistlerin ve Misyonerlerin Tantracılığa Bakışı
Trabzon İlahiyat DergisiBatılıların 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
International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2019 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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A Case Report on Management of Liver Cirrhosis Using Ayurveda and Integrative Approach of Treatment
Case Reports in Hepatology, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Background: Liver cirrhosis is an advanced stage of abnormal fibrogenesis of tissues that causes liver injuries. Though cirrhosis can be managed by etiological parameters, its long‐term reversal is still a question. Ayurveda system of medicine diagnoses liver disease under “Kamala” and “Udara” with promising outcomes of treatment.
Prasan Shankar +7 more
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The erotic imaginary of divine realization in Kabbalistic and Tantric metaphysics [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I consider the way in which divinity is realized through an imaginary locus in the mystical thought of Jewish kabbalah and Hindu tantra. It demonstrates a reflective consciousness by the adept or master in understanding the place of God’s ...
Martin, Paul C.
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The trials of Rābi‘a al-‘Adawīyya in the Malay world: the woman Sufi in Hikayat Rabi‘ah. [PDF]
, 2018 Sufism is often taken to be the form of Islamic practice that was most welcoming to women. Similarly, Southeast Asia is commonly said to be characterised by unusually high levels of female autonomy, relative to the surrounding regions.
Hijjas, Mulaika
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Shabbetai Tsvis nedstigning til Farao – et jødisk eksempel på forløsning gennem urenhed
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2019 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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ASPECTOS CIENTÍFICOS Y BENEFICIOSOS DEL CULTO TANTRICO
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2016 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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