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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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‘I embrace the mystery of the cosmos’: how the British rock star Sting represents the Faustian narrative

open access: yesChurch, Communication and Culture
The purpose of the text is to show that one does the British rock star Sting no spiritual justice by pigeonholing him as a Christian. Reasons are shown why Sting can instead be placed on the broad map of “Western Esotericism” (Wouter J.
Stefan Meetschen
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New Age, new religious movements and the youth: Effects of derationalization of everyday consciousness in the post-secular society

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology
The article considers history, prerequisites and consequences of the spread of New Age ideas and practices in contemporary society as a new form of spirituality that contributes to the emergence and spread of new religious movements (NRMs).
T. A. Khagurov, M. G. Rudakov
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Influence of Positive Thinking Ideology on Physician Representations of Cancer. [PDF]

open access: yesBehav Sci (Basel), 2023
Higuita-Gutiérrez LF   +3 more
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The Concept of Human Self: George Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2019
The Greco-Armenian spiritual master George I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) has remained an important figure in twentieth-century Western esoteric thought. Gurdjieff claimed that people do not have a stable self-identity or, more radically, a soul, but instead ...
Makhabbad Maltabarova
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The Yuima-e as Theatre of the State [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article analyzes a twelfth-century session of the Yuima-e at Kofukuji as a stage of history to determine the institutional and factional background of its participants.
Bauer, M
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