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Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper outlines a distributional approach to institutional analysis, reconceptualising institutions as distributions of knowledge and activity across people. We argue that institutionalisation and institutional change are best understood by focussing on actors with the requisite knowledge and motivation to keep institutional patterns going,
Dustin S. Stoltz +2 more
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Mechanism of Tantra in the Light of Buddhism: A Means to Enlightenment (Society for New Testament Studies) [PDF]
, 2018 Tantra means knowledge of methodical and mechanical investigational-technique through which we develop our consciousness and faculties of consciousness. It is also a process through which we can able to be realized our inherent spiritual powers. The term
Behera, Rajiba, Cm, Shimi
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Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract This commentary appreciates Hamish Kallin's (2024) account of the prospects for reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches via engaging Henri Lefebvre's work, but signals equivocation about Lefebvre triggered by his depictions of colonialism, Islam and the tropics. I argue that these are inconsistent with ongoing decolonial moves
James D. Sidaway
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Mages of the isles : some remarks on the esoteric inspirations in British Druidry [PDF]
, 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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British Journal of Health Psychology, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Objectives Conspiracy thinking has played a significant role in shaping public responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic and has influenced citizens' adherence to government protocols, including reluctance to receive vaccination and adherence to public health measures.
Michele Roccato +2 more
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Approaching Religion, 2018 Review of Tobias Churton's Deconstructioning Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician (Rochester, Inner Traditions, 2017).
Hippo Taatila
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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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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction
The German Quarterly, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 5-20, Winter 2026.Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview
Religions, 2017 American theories of reincarnation have a long and complex history, dating from 1680s to the present. It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the main currents of reincarnation theory in the American context, giving a brief historical survey ...
Lee Irwin
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Western esotericism and the history of European science and medicine in the early modern period
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 The history of science and the history of medicine were, from their beginnings as subjects in the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods, hostile to esoteric ideas and practices and generally excluded them from the scope of academic study. Esoteric
Jole Shackelford
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