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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"(re)enchantment"”.
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Neomythism: Transfigurative Invocation and the (Re)Enchantment Engine in Human-AI Collaborative Art
… analytic dimensions introduces Neomythism—the reactivation of mythic possibility through human-AI collaborative art-making—as a framework for addressing the compounded epistemic exclusion of marginalized creative practitioners, enforced by a myth of disenchantment that operates at …
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Hearing Existenzspeak: An Existential Response to Millennial Angst
In the pages that follow, I offer a theoretical perspective for thinking about communication. My ideas here are informed by different existential philosophies that were prominent at the beginning of the last century. Taking up the project of what German philosopher Karl Jaspers calls …
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Engaging Past and Future on a Community Supported Agriculture Farm
… Orchard Hill Farm, an organic, draft-horse powered Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm located on the outskirts of Sparta, Ontario. Here, a thoughtful and flexible approach to management that works with soil, non-human animals, and humans has resulted in a financially viable small-scale …
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By knot of one, the spell’s begun: Finding the Wiccan Path. An investigation of conversion practices within the Wicca community.
This thesis offers a sociological interpretation of the change in religious beliefs among members of the Pagan branch called Wicca, arguing that the process of joining Wicca is characterised by a process of religious conversion as well as a process of religious affiliation. This distinction …
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Religion, the SPCK and the Westminster workhouses : 're-enchanting' the eighteenth-century workhouse
This thesis examines the role and importance of religion and religious reform in the Westminster workhouses and how it developed throughout the eighteenth century. Tim Hitchcock argued in 1992 that the SPCK, an Anglican reforming society, was largely responsible for the parochial workhouse movement …
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Visual theologies in Graham Greene's 'Dark and Magical Heart of Faith'
This study explores the ways in which Catholic images, statues, and icons haunt the fictional, spiritual wasteland of Greene’s writing, nicknamed ‘Greeneland’. It is also prompted by a real space, discovered by Greene during his 1938 trip to Mexico, which was subsequently fictionalised in The Power …
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The socialist sacred: atheism, religion, and mass culture in Romania, 1948-1989
… secular, and the ""other"" of everything religious. Between 1948 and 1989, the Romanian communist regime sought to disenchant believers with a scientific, materialist worldview. Yet, it likewise strove to imbue citizens' lives with socialist sacred meaning. My work demonstrates that we …
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Land Matters: Stories of Survival, Peasant Roots & Peasant Futurisms
… my literary writing practice with academic research, this doctoral research-creation project reads ecological and social violence as “one phenomenon” caused by early capitalism and intensifying after the industrial revolution in 1850, and especially after the neoliberal tide post-1945 (Moore …
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Modernitet och myt : avförtrollning och återförtrollning i Knut Hamsuns Sult, Mysterier och Pan
Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) is generally regarded as one of the first proponents of modern literature in Scandinavia. The present thesis discusses the author’s breakthrough phase which took place around the year 1890. This was an era when societal modernity became established in the Scandinavian …
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God and the Novel in India
The novel especially the realist novel has been generally understood as a secular, disenchanted form, but the history of the Indian novel complicates this view. A seminal trajectory of realist novels situated in India, by native and non-resident writers alike, presents a perception of God in the …
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Healing by a National Nature in "Disorganized" Mongolia
This dissertation explores entanglements of body, national identity and nature in contemporary Mongolia. The project is situated within the rising popularity of natural remedies and alternative medicine during a time described as disorganized (zambaraagui) and disorderly. Data was collected from 33 …