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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"mystics"”.
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Mystics, Radicals, Sinners, and Saints: Freedom, Rebirth, and the American West
This dissertation explores the lives of John Muir, the Taos Society of Artists, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Everett Ruess, Edith Warner, and the Taos hippies who journeyed to the American West in search of freedom. In the Western setting, with its diverse yet distinctive and stunning terrain, these …
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Lonely Mystics: A Practical Theological Analysis of Emerging Post-Secular Spiritualities
<p>In 1981, Catholic theologian Karl Rahner wrote about the increasingly lonely experience of the individual seeking an experience of God, a reaction to the continuing decline of church attendance and religious adherence. This prediction echoes today in the emergence of a plethora of spiritual …
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Virgins, Mystics, and Reformers: The Creation of Female Constructed Identites in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
During the medieval and early modern periods in England, women were not expected to enter into the realm of politics or to comment on religion, and yet many women did find ways of entering into discourse on these topics. For these women the creation of public identities that would protect them from …
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THE UNKNOWN That what I say is not what I mean
… This work became the strongest bridge to the mystics who describe darkness as the most secure condition for a meeting with the "unknown". 'Mystics and Teaching' - examines the relationship between notions of mystics and my experience of what occurs between myself and students in a pedagogical …
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Ecologie et connaissances ethnozoologiques de quelques espèces d'oiseaux gibiers menaces des ecosytèmes du Sud du Bénin
… Birds are used for food, medicinal and magico-mystics purposes. The magico-mystics and food were the most frequent used categories. Homogeneity of knowledge was found among the informants regarding the ethnic group as well as for the sex with respectively 0.66 and 0.7 for the use diversity …
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Untimely meditations: female mysticism in medieval culture and modern scholarship
… on the ways in which the writings of female mystics are mediated in the medieval period and re-mediated in the modem period. The return, recurrence and endurance of the medieval within the modem is thus a key point of interest. The opening chapter provides a survey of medieval mysticism and …
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A. W. Tozer: A Mystical and Confessional Evangelical
… he drew from the writings of medieval Catholic mystics. In fact, twenty-eight of the thirty-five books on his recommended reading list were written by Catholics who lived either during or soon after medieval times. Needless to say, this is not something people would normally expect from a pastor …
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Between silence and speech : mystical experience in contemporary women's writing
… the representation of mysticism and female mystics incontemporary women's writing, with specific reference to fiction by Michele Roberts,Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame. Drawing upon a core mysticalproblem (the question of how to articulate the ineffable divine), women's …
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Open Secret: Henry Corbin, Elliot Wolfson, and the Mystical Poetics of Deification
… theosis or deification? And second, given that mystics in the three Abrahamic faiths have written experientially of deification, what might be some of the phenomenological and anthropological lessons that we can learn today from their insights into the nature of reality and from those of the …
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RIFORMA PROFETICA E POTERE POLITICO. IL MONASTERO AGOSTINIANO DI SANTA MARTA E LE SUE MISTICHE NEL DUCATO DI MILANO FRA QUATTRO E CINQUECENTO
… the magisterium and the reformist agendas of its mystics, the case of the monastery of Santa Marta offers the opportunity to grasp the full complexity of this fundamental juncture in Italian spiritual life. In particular, it highlights the close link between political and social crises and the …
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The Secret Language of the Desert: Poetry, Loss, and Awakening
… as the shaman, a purpose common to poets, mystics, and scientists, to see beyond immediate knowing. He follows the most primal of human directives, the need to understand and communicate the experiences of his life which have struck him with great intensity. </p>
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Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
… augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her works, such as the cynicism of her own intellect in accepting the visionary experiences as authentic and periods of suffering when her faith is tested. These tensions have been …
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Nothing but the truth: the Sufi testament of 'Aziz Nasafi
`Aziz Nasafi is among the most important Islamic mystics of the medieval period. His achievement was to integrate various ideas, including those of Ibn `Arabi and Najm al-Din Kubrä into a coherent whole, providing Persian speaking Sufis with an introduction to the speculative and practical …
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A phenomenological inquiry into how transcendent experiences among existential therapists influence their practice
… lies at the heart of contemplation among mystics and poets across times and cultures. Such transcendent experiences have been reported to be prevalent also in the general populations. Yet, the phenomenon is little studied in psychotherapy research, from the lived perspectives of therapists …
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Playful Platonist : The development of ideas in the novels of Iris Murdoch
… significance of the essay 'Existentialists and Mystics', which has been neglected by critics, both in terms of illuminating her interests and purposes and also in providing appropriate terminology with which to discuss her novels. The thesis then examines the individual novels and traces the …
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Through the Gnostic Threshold: Analogical Space in Swedenborg and Blake
… (and hell); we have but to find out how the mystics and poets turned the key to enter there ourselves. In this study, I will use the new, but ever-widening, theoretical school of Gnostic Criticism in order to make an approach into analogical space.
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Jews and Mappilas of Kerala: A study of their history and selected song traditions
… in the literature. The influence of Jewish mystics on the Malabari Jewish community is also rarely identified as such. 3) While the Mappilas' links with Arab nations are known, their Tamil roots are relatively understudied. The latter emerged in my restudy of the archival music selection. 4) …
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TRANSCENDING THE FEMININE: NEGOTIATING GENDER IN THE MYSTICISM OF IBN AL-‘ARABĪ AND FRANCIS OF ASSISI
… on that point, a comparative study of these two mystics has yet to be published. "Transcending the Feminine: Negotiations of Gender in the Mysticism of Ibn al-ʿArabī and Francis of Assisi" endeavors to fill that gap, and in so doing to unpack the distinctive aspects of the saint's and the …
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Human levitation
… shamans, Spiritualists, qigong practitioners and mystics) may deliberately seek to interact with or access these entities or powers, while others (eg: poltergeist activity and spirit possession) may encounter them involuntarily. It also appears that, regardless of which group they belong to, all …
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