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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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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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Deux romans de Kamel Daoud, entre militantisme satirique et symbiose interculturelle
Multilinguales, 2021 The writing of the novels Zabor or The Psalms and The Painter Devouring the Woman by Kamel Daoud takes on an equivocal character, a creative project torn between an amply satirical militant expression and an aesthetically crafted intercultural ...
Smail Mahfouf
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Looking For Black Religions In 20th Century Comics: 1931-1993 [PDF]
, 2019 Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity ...
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia
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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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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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Correspondences - Online Journal For The Academic Study of Western Esotericism, Volume 2.2 [PDF]
, 2014 Welcome to Correspondences, an international, peer-reviewed online journal devoted to the academic study of Western esotericism. By providing a wider forum of debate regarding issues and currents in Western esotericism than has previously been possible ...
Elwing, J., Roukema, Aren
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Introduction: Western Learned Magic as an Entangled Tradition
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023 The introduction to this special issue outlines the concept of Western learned magic and suggests to analyse it as an entangled tradition, thus calling for an interdisciplinary, transcultural and transreligious perspective on its history.
Bernd-Christian Otto
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