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6 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2008-2026
Religion and the Arts March 31, 2026 Mi Chen
This paper examines shamanic rock art through Chi Zijian’s The Last Quarter of the Moon , a Mao Dun Prize-winning novel that portrays the spiritual world of the Evenki people. The novel’s depictions of reindeer, shamans, hunters, celestial bodies, and rivers are interpreted as religious symbols and aesthetic forms that encode ritual practices, cosmological beliefs, and spiritual communication....
Religion and the Arts March 27, 2024 Manon Hedenborg White
Abstract The article analyzes four works of poetry and illustration produced by the artist, poet, and occultist Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995) in the 1950s and 1960s. Widow of rocket scientist and occultist John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952), an early follower of Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) religion Thelema, Cameron was also a friend and collaborator of Beat artist Wallace Berman...
Religion and the Arts March 27, 2024 W. Peters
As initially published by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) in 1909, his book 777 contained tables of correspondences between the Tarot, qabalistic Tree of Life, divine pantheons and other aspects of Western esotericism. Unsatisfied with the original edition, in 1925 he commissioned artist Oskar Hopfer (1892–1966) to produce diagrams to illustrate the correspondences contained in the tables....
Religion and the Arts 2009 Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten 1 citation
Abstract This paper examines the dynamics of the representation of the “sea woman,” sometimes known as Sedna, among the Inuit of Northeastern Canada in myths, shamanic experiences, and modern artistic representations. The varying representations of the sea women are connected to shamanic practice. The sea woman does not have a clearly defined iconography; this lack of definition gave shamans...
Religion and the Arts 2008 James Morley
AbstractYoga, the ancient inter-religious thread running through all Indian Spirituality, shares a remarkable congruence with twentieth-century phenomenology. But this conjuncture is not based on a common aspiration of "transcendence from the world," as argued by previous comparisons. Instead, by applying the more advanced Existential Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the more...
Religion and the Arts 2008 Richard Kearney
AbstractThis essay is a testimonial account of the author's apprenticeship with a yoga teacher in the Hindu pilgrimage town of Rishikesh, Northern India. It explores the meeting of Western and Eastern attitudes to spirituality, desire, the body, study, and breathing. In particular, it seeks to register the encounter with the Vedantin and yogic notions of the "cave of the heart" as privileged...