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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"numinous"”.
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The Numinous and the ethical dimensions within holiness
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Poetic Anatomy of the Numinous Creative Passages into the Self as Beloved
… which I name as the poetic zone, is where the numinous enters the ordinary. The investigation for a space/place/moment that lies beyond the logic of acceptable discourse can help initiate and give shape to a new vocabulary - visual or literary. By orchestrating a methodology, which functions on …
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Light, Threshold and the Numinous: A Design Methodology for Light at the Moment of Crossing
This thesis examines how light can shape numinous experience at architectural thresholds. Contemporary lighting practice often treats light as a technical variable measured through illumination, glare, energy, and daylight performance. While these metrics are necessary, they rarely address the felt …
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The numinous land : examples of sacred geometry and geopiety in formalist and landscape paintings of the prairies
Landscape painting and formalist painting, both terms taken in their broadest possible sense, have been the predominant forms of painting on the prairie, particularly in Saskatchewan, for several decades. The two tendencies are not diametrically opposed, but related as parts of a spectrum; in the …
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Political fanaticism, alienation and the Trickster archetype in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland
… mode of being that divests individuals of the numinous dimensions of existence. And since Jungian psychology formulates the numinous as a category of subjective experiences vis-à-vis the Self (Edinger, 1972), it follows, the thesis argues, that political fanaticism and alienation result from an …
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A knowledge of spirit and flesh: a novel and exegesis exploring the numinous feminine, the interior journey and sites of resistance within a patriarchal world
… of Spirit and Flesh in relation to feminist, numinous and writing theorisations. The exegesis is centrally concerned with the notion of 'feminism/patriarchy', and it implications for feminist fiction and theory. The exegesis asks: how can the female fiction writer transcend the stalemate of …
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Revisiting Jung's Psychology of Religion in Light of the Relational Turn and the Resurgence of Religion in Organised Forms
… phase of ‘liminality’. In this phase, both numinous symbols and symbols from organised religion occurred. The numinosity of the first kind of symbol was seemingly more related to the transformation of the early-formed structures of a relational character than to archetypes, and the first …
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ACACIA, a Book of Wonders, or the Meditations of Fontaine Caldwell, Containing the True Account of Her Captivity as Written in Her Little Books
… with Heavenly allure when confronted with numinous spiritual events—to populate the spiritual wonders of Fontaine’s diaries—her “little books.” As a captivity account, <em>ACACIA</em> calls on rhetorical dynamics essential to that genre to pose questions about divine goodness, the veracity …
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Clergywomen and Grief: Local Church Pastors and Their Experiences
… laity are made. A proposal of a new term, <bold> Numinous Grief</bold>, for clergy who appropriately hold expressions of grief while officiating services or other duties relating to their professional role and, at another time, may appropriately cry with a family.
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Irish neo-paganism: worldview, ritual and identity
… interconnectedness of the natural landscape, the numinous and mythology gives rise to creative expression through various forms of neo-pagan artworks, which are discussed herein. The identifying features and key issues of Irish neo-pagan culture are addressed. These key issues are expressed as …
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The poetics of immanence and experience: Robert Lowell, James Wright, Richard Hugo, Jorie Graham
… Wright’s transcendental moments inspired by numinous nature, Hugo’s projections of the human self upon the Object-towns and Graham’s experiential frames of reference filled with the meditations and speculations of her discursive voice.
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Community, word and wonder: discerning key elements in the faith inquiry of Chinese international students
… community groups, study of Bible texts, and numinous experiences. The iterative and progressive interaction of these elements contributes to a process of ‘ordinary theologising’ involving both the emergence of nascent theological understandings, and the deconstruction of some existing …
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Henry Fielding : literary and theological misplacement
… path not taken, the nagging sense of the numinous, or the coming to terms with the ludicrous nature of the human condition. Such fragile, comedic alterity provides a weak metaphysical root which is shared by both literature and theology. To illustrate the effects of such misplacement, this …
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A Transcendent View of Things: The Persistence of Metaphysics in Modern German Lyric Poetry, 1771-1908
… the symbol that would sever the image from its numinous source of significance by confining the image to the scope of the poet’s own gaze. Yet Mörike’s poetry also evinces a counter-veiling tendency to de-subjectivize the image, thus yielding a vision of things as they are prior to epistemic …
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April 4, 1968: Death, Difference, and Dialogue
… by way of the physical, emotional, and numinous, a multi-dimensional look at public address is delivered. The rhetorician will be interested in new ways of assessing effects. The communication ethicist will appreciate the work as concepts like answerability, emotional-volitional tone, …
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Transitional holiness in the twelfth century: the social and spiritual identity of Domina Christina of Markyate
… the separation of elite and popular modes of numinous encounter by taking her out of her primary social networks and identifying a comparative framework in contemporary trends in Western visionary culture. Visions flourish within particular domestic contexts and disciplines, and Christina …
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Contemporary Art and the Liminal Space: Refuge for the Divine in an Empirical World?
This research explores whether a concept of the divine can have alternative expression outside of religious bodies in contemporary art and utilises this notion in the idea of liminality, which is defined as a transitory rite of passage between different states of self. Since the liminal is a …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… in numinosity, which includes the negative numinous, are the twining forces where the local and the common, and the Ideal and the esoteric, meet. His interest in Western esotericism is important because of the Victorian occult revival and the ritual magic groups' role in the development of …