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Cannabis, Religion, and Trust in the Medical Profession: A Cross‐Religious Study of Patients' Attitudes Toward Medical and Recreational Use in Northern Israel

open access: yesNursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite the global expansion of medical cannabis, limited empirical attention has been given to the sociocultural and religious factors shaping patient attitudes, particularly in multi‐faith societies. Israel provides a distinctive context for such examination, combining advanced medical cannabis regulation with substantial religious diversity.
Loay Zaknoun   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mages of the isles : some remarks on the esoteric inspirations in British Druidry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article is a short presentation of the connections between the Western esoteric tradition and Druidry, as demonstrated by the British Druidic traditions. The Druids, described in the classical sources as mages, philosophers and sages, have become an
Anczyk, Adam
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Deconfabulation: Agamben's Italian Categories and the Impossibility of Experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Agamben’s self-professed epigonism underwrites his entire project, serving as an even more fundamental methodological concept than the signature, paradigm, and archeology.
Anthony Adler
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Where Do We Fit? Reflections on Research Interview Practice, Project Design, and Interpretation**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 82-96, March 2026.
What is special about historical research interviews in the history of science, technology, and medicine, and how do they compare to the tools of oral historians and social scientists? This essay reflects on three interview projects I have undertaken, each taking a distinct shape.
Dmitriy Myelnikov
wiley   +1 more source

Boundary Work in Japanese Religious Studies: Anesaki Masaharu on Religious Freedom and Academic Concealment

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2018
Past issues of Correspondences have sought to envision non-Western “esoteric” categories, but it remains an open question as to whether esotericism is a generic mode of thought, as opposed to a construction within intellectual history. I demonstrate some
Avery Morrow
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Black Isis and White Moon-Cakes: Divine Femininity and Everyday Womanhood in the Work of Dion Fortune [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Dion Fortune (1890-1946) is one of the most influential figures of 20th century British occultism, although her work remains largely unstudied. Born Violet Mary Firth, Fortune founded an offshoot of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the 1920s ...
Van Raalte, Georgia
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

New Religious Movements, Western Esotericism, and Integral Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yesIntegral Review, 2012
Sensibilities toward Eastern thought in the West, fostered in large part through the growth of new religious movements, align with the elements of Western esoteric teachings which have appeared in many guises throughout the history of the West and are ...
Constance A. Jones
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Early Modern visual-verbal esoteric imagery and the theatre: Julius Caesar 1.3

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2018
Adopting a method which combines close readings of iconography and playtext with broader historicist and cultural investigations, this article attempts to contribute to the field of visual-verbal Shakespeare studies through outlining how polysemous ...
Svenn-Arve Myklebost
doaj   +1 more source

Strategie kontroli i represji Kościoła scjentologicznego wobec amerykańskiej kinematografii [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Church of Scientology’s strategies of control and repression of towards American cinema The aim of this article is to show the strategies of control developed by the Church of Scientology and repressions enforced by the Church on representatives of ...
PIGULAK, MARCIN
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