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ATMOSFEAR: Horror of nature and the nature of horror in Algernon Blackwood
Abstract The impact that the stories of Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) have had on the literature of the uncanny can hardly be overestimated. However, there is almost no research on Blackwood's life and work. Against the background of a presentation of themes and motifs of Blackwood's narrative œuvre, this article develops a characteristic of his ...
Dominic Angeloch
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The ‘Imaginary’ World of the Afterlife: Parallel World in Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Debjan [PDF]
This article focuses on the presentation of parallel worlds in the early twentieth century Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s (1894-1950) novel Debjan (1946) [literally, ‘the path of the Gods’].
Ayusman Chakraborty
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Race and Redemption: Racial and Ethnic Evolution in Rudolf Steiner\u27s Anthroposophy [PDF]
With its origins in modern Theosophy, Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy is built around a racial view of human nature arranged in a hierarchical framework. This article examines the details of the Anthroposophical theory of cosmic and individual redemption ...
Staudenmaier, Peter
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Histories of Untranslatability in South Asia: Historiography, Debates, and Problems, 1980–2010
ABSTRACT Untranslatability is not a separate field of study in history; rather, it is a conceptual lens that captures the concerns of certain strands of scholarship which have tended to somewhat problematize connections, translations, and mediation across imperial and colonial divides.
Vipin Krishna
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Short Abstract This paper addresses the geography of translation by exploring the re‐scripting of Indian spirituality into and through consumerism. More specifically, it examines the interplay between ‘Indian’, ‘modern’, and ‘Western’ in the advertising language deployed by the company Patanjali.
Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett
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ABSTRACT This paper explores the origins and development of the “contemplative psychotherapy” project in the United States, emerging around psychoanalyst Edward Podvoll and the intellectual environment at Naropa University during the 1970s and 1980s.
Tommaso Priviero
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Conservation beyond biopolitics: Vulnerability and abundance in Chennai's nature‐cultures
Short Abstract This paper examines a breadth of natures and nature practices in Chennai, India, to illuminate the socio‐material processes that undermine some natures even while supporting others, and to highlight paradoxical responses to nonhuman agencies and resilience within the domain of ecological concern.
Krithika Srinivasan
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Investigation of the Entropic creation Argument [PDF]
The entropic argument is a proof of God which proves the creation of the world by using physical laws and from the creation of the world goes to prove the existence of God.
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such prominent figures as Helena Blavatsky, MacGregor Mathers, Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, and Dion Fortune shaped Western occultism and esotericism.
Nevfel Akyar
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Book Review: Die Symbolik von Gift und Nektar in der klassischen indischen Literatur [PDF]
A review of Die Symbolik von Gift und Nektar in der klassischen indischen Literatur by Ira Stubbe ...
Nayak, Anand
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