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The Globalization of Esotericism

Correspondences, 2015
In recent discussions about the study of esotericism, the adjective “Western” has come under critical scrutiny. Shouldn’t “esotericism” be understood as a global rather than just a Western eld of research?
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
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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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Issues in Christian Encounters with Yoga: Exploring 3HO/Kundalini Yoga [PDF]

, 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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The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments

Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2025.
ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
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Death - Cultural, philosophical and religious aspects [PDF]

, 2016
About death, grief, mourning, life after death and immortality. Why should we die like humans to survive as a species. "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Astral Karate as a Phenomenon of Late-Soviet Esoteric Underground

Open Theology, 2017
The article concentrates on the history of Astral Karate, its doctrine and sources. Astral Karate was a late-Soviet eclectic spiritual movement based on esoteric interpretations of martial arts and yoga.
Panin Stanislav
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A Preliminary Genealogy of Yoga in Italy: Between Religion and Contemporary Spirituality

Religions, 2023
In this article, we design a preliminary genealogy of yoga in Italy, showing its positioning within the growing field of “contemporary spiritualities”, their premodern, esoteric and theosophical roots and Catholicism.
Matteo Di Placido, Stefania Palmisano
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Alkimia Operativa and Alkimia Speculativa. Some Modern Controversies on the Historiography of Alchemy [PDF]

, 2010
The accent on scientific and empirical character of alchemy, especially from the field of the history of science, promotes the idea that one can understand the cryptic and metaphorical language of alchemy mainly through the laboratory chemical practice ...
Calian, Florin George
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