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Mechanism of Tantra in the Light of Buddhism: A Means to Enlightenment (Society for New Testament Studies) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Tantra means knowledge of methodical and mechanical investigational-technique through which we develop our consciousness and faculties of consciousness. It is also a process through which we can able to be realized our inherent spiritual powers. The term
Behera, Rajiba, Cm, Shimi
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Issues in Christian Encounters with Yoga: Exploring 3HO/Kundalini Yoga [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The paper begins by drawing out current issues that have been raised by critics concerning the contemporary practice of Hindu postural types of yoga in western and specifically western Christian contexts, with some illustrative reference to contemporary ...
Stoeber, Michael
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Religion Beyond God [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The ambition of the present paper is to theorise processes of re-enchantment in the modern western world by drawing on Max Weber’s and Emile Durkheim’s classical sociological insights on modernity, meaning and religion. Our aim in doing so is not only to
Aupers, S.D. (Stef), Houtman, D. (Dick)
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Reflections on the Ethnographic Study of Contemporary Ritual Magic

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2018
This article identifies and engages with the complexities of conducting ethnographic research in the hard-to-access field of Western esotericism, referred to here as “modern ritual magic”.
Damon Zacharias Lycourinos
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Defending Paper Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Reception of Daoism in Early Twentieth Century Esotericism

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2013
This article explores the representation of Daoism and Chinese religion in the writings of Aleister Crowley. The influence of Asian religions on the occult revival of the late nineteenth century has often been recognized.
Johan Nilsson
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Magic Made Modern?: Re-evaluating the Novelty of the Golden Dawn’s Magic

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2014
This is an article in the history of magic that re-evaluates Alison Butler’s thesis regarding the novelty of the magical praxis of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Christopher A. Plaisance
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The Traumatic Mysticism of Othered Others: Blackness, Islam, and Esotericism in the Five Percenters

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2019
This article draws from black critical theory, Western esotericism studies, and scholarship in Islamic studies to articulate the Five Percenters as expressing what I call “traumatic mysticism.” I first articulate blackness as the esoteric secret of the ...
Biko Gray
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