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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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Vera Hjelt and the calling of theosophical universal work, 1894–1904
Approaching Religion, 2018 This article discusses the theosophy of Vera Hjelt (1857–1947), who was inspired by Annie Besant. Hjelt led an active life as a schoolteacher, factory owner, writer, occupational safety inspector and member of parliament.
Marjo Kaartinen
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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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Esotericism Ancient and Modern [PDF]
, 2009 Leo Strauss presents at least two distinct accounts of the idea that the authors in the political-philosophical canon have often masked their true teachings.
Frazer, Michael
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Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.Isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) is a temporary state of immobility that occurs during the transition between wakefulness and sleep. Although described as hallucinations within biomedical discourse, frightening multisensory perceptions can often accompany muscle atonia, giving rise to numerous cultural, spiritual, and supernatural explanatory models ...
Francesca Sullivan, Nicole Lindsay
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 251-275, April 2026.Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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WESTERN ESOTERICISM AS AN OBJECT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES RESEARCH [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2013 This article presents a short excursus into the history of research on western esotericism. At the beginning the basic terms esoterica and esotericism are defi ned.
Pavel Nosachev
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Lucifer Over Luxor: Archaeology, Egyptology, and Occultism in Kenneth Anger’s Magick Lantern Cycle [PDF]
, 2016 One of the great figureheads of American experimental cinema, Kenneth Anger (b.1927), is internationally renowned for his pioneering work, recognisable for its blend of homoerotica, popular and classical music, and dark, symbolist imagery.
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О двух сущностях человека. „Задумчивый странник” Зи- наидыГиппиус [PDF]
, 2018 The article is an attempt to describe the conception of androgyny in ZinaidaGippius’s work entitled Reflective wanderer. The main character of Reflective wandereris a modernistic philosopher, Vasily Rozanov.
Okroj, Kinga
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