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Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic: The Case of Gurdjieff and Crowley

Correspondences, 2020
Is it possible to satisfactorily define the words “esotericism,” “occultism,” and “magic”? Do these terms have any utility? Can “esotericism” be understood without reference to a complement such as “exotericism”?
Joseph Azize
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Esoterismo. Giornata di studi intorno al volume 25 degli Annali della Storia d’Italia Einaudi [PDF]

Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2011
[Esotericism. One-day Workshop about the Annale n. 25 of the Storia d'Italia Einaudi]. This section contains the proceedings of the one-day workshop on the book Esoterismo ("Esotericism"), published as the Annale n. 25 in the collection "History of Italy"
Castellano, Carolina, Sofia, Francesca, Simonutti, Luisa, Conforti, Maria, Cambi, Maurizio, Caianiello, Silvia, Cazzaniga, Gian Mario   +6 more
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Editorial note

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008
Editorial note of the Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, vol. 20, based on papers read at the symposium 'Western Esotericism', held at Åbo, Finland, on 15-17 August 2007.
Tore Ahlbäck
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Theology of Supernatural

Religions, 2020
The main research issues of the article are the determination of the genesis of theology created in Supernatural and the understanding of ways in which this show transforms a traditional Christian theological narrative.
Pavel Nosachev
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Review of Holman [PDF]

Integral Review, 2009
Review of The Return of the Perennial Philosophy: The Supreme Vision of Western Esotericism, by John Holman.
Roland Benedikter
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La prisión de lo real: la distopía de Platón y la gnosis en los juegos de rol. The prison of reality: gnostic and platonic dystopia in role-playing games. [PDF]

Distopía y Sociedad, 2022
Pese al firme vínculo de Platón con el pensamiento utópico –de manera central a través de República (385-370 a. de C./1941), Timeo (369-347 a. de C./2004b) y Critias (369-347 a.
Mario Ramos Vera
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Fight and Contemplation. The Towianists amid the European Revolutions of 1848

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture, 2023
The aim of the article is to show the European diffusion of an esoteric doctrine that originated in Lithuania in the nineteenth century and its circulation during the European uprisings of 1848.
Giulio Dalla Grana
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