International Research Journal of MMC
December 31, 2024
I. Subba
प्रस्तुत लेख जेन रहस्यान्वेषणका मूलभूत पक्षको अध्ययन गर्नुमा केन्द्रित छ । रहस्यवादका क्षेत्रमा भिन्न धारणा लिएर देखापरेको जेन एउटा ध्यान प्रणाली हो जसमा चेतनाको प्रमुख भूमिका रहेको हुन्छ । मनोवैज्ञानिक रूपमा मानसिक गतिविधिको प्रक्रियासितै चेतनाको उद्भावनामा जेन रहस्यवादले गति प्राप्त गर्दछ । व्यक्तिमा रहेको मानसिक प्रकृतिको अन्वेषण गर्दै परिपूर्ण रूपमा शून्यज्ञ भई सतोरी प्राप्त गर्नु जेन...
Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi
December 31, 2024
Floribert Patrick C. Endong
The African religious landscape is partly characterized by a plurality of vibrant neo-Pentecostal and charismatic movements. Many of these movements are founded, led or influenced by perceived gifted individuals who claim to have had a firsthand experience with the spirit world through diverse mystical or paranormal means. Some of these means include near death experiences or resurrection from...
Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi
December 31, 2024
Merve Bahadur, İhsan Çapcioğlu
1 citation
Technological developments and the introduction of mass media into our lives have led to an increase in the visibility of religion on digital platforms. With the digitalization process affecting religious perceptions and practices, the change in the phenomenon of belief has brought about an intensification of spiritual searches. These searches offer almost all belief systems, from...
Journal of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Societies
December 30, 2024
Saifuddin Dhuhri, Linur Ficca Agustina, Nurul Khansa Fauziyah
This article is an attempt to respond the following two questions; what is the nature of peusijeuk and how it is related to human well-being, and how peusijeuk works as a therapy. Grounded on a critical view upon mainstream theories of psychology, this work accordingly advocate indigenous psychology by majorly comparing it to behaviourist and psycho-analysis theories and, more importantly,...
Journal of Scientific Exploration
December 27, 2024
Lawrence Wile
During their evolutionary transition from apes, Homo sapiens developed the capacity to create mental worlds. While conferring a selective advantage and leading to wondrous intellectual achievements and transformative technologies, this capacity set humankind on a historical trajectory that is approaching the potential for its extinction. The genetic and anatomical basis of humankind’s unique...
Religions
December 27, 2024
Na Liu
This paper delves into the connection between Zhuangzi’s mystical philosophy and its potential application to nonviolent resistance movements. It argues that the cultivation of inner peace, as advocated by Zhuangzi, can serve as a powerful foundation for individuals to engage in peaceful social change. Zhuangzi, a prominent figure in ancient Chinese thought, emphasized the importance of...
Religions
December 25, 2024
Ali Qadir, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir
2 citations
The study of mysticism has been at an impasse for many years, wavering between naïve realism around a common core hypothesis and critical questioning of the category of mysticism and its imposition. In this article, we review key 20th century developments in the study of mysticism to understand why the term was largely abandoned and unpack the contours of this impasse. Specifically, we probe...
Journal of Contemporary Poetics
December 24, 2024
Sarah Abdullah
For the last few decades gaze as a theoretical concept has been explored from philosophical, political, and psychological perspectives. However, its exploration in media studies has been the most extensive where it has been used to explore the viewers’ engagement with visual media. Theories of male gaze (Mulvey), female gaze (Lorraine Gamman, Margaret Marshment), objectifying gaze (Fredrickson...
UCP Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences
December 20, 2024
Sobia Tahir, Miss Mehak Maqbool, Sidra Maqsood
Henry Bergson (1859-1941) and Mohammad Iqbal (1877-1938) wished to establish religious truth on firm grounds beyond any doubt. For this purpose, both relied heavily on Religious or Mystical Experience, which is direct and doubt-free. However, the next and most important question is: What does the mystic achieve from this experience? The answer is “Knowledge”--- but what is the nature of this...
GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites
December 20, 2024
Miguel Angel Ruiz-Palacios, Cristiana Pereira-Teixeira-De-Oliveira, Miguel Angel Tejada-García et al.
3 citations
This study explored cultural tourist experiences of Andean rituals on Peru's northern coast using ethnographic methods. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 65 participants, field notes, and observations of interactions among shamans, patients, and lagoons. Findings show tourists seek authentic cultural experiences, spiritual healing, and personal fulfilment. Shamans act...
Lectures
December 18, 2024
Hanifatus Sholehah, S. Jannah, Faridatul Jannah et al.
1 citation
This research article offers a comparative analysis of the Bhakti Movement in Hinduism and Sufi Mysticism in Islam, two profound spiritual movements that emerged in India and the Islamic world, respectively. Through an exploration of their historical backgrounds, philosophical foundations, practices, and impacts on society, this study aims to shed light on the similarities and differences...
IntechOpen eBooks
December 13, 2024
Amir Freimann, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana
This paper explores the concept of enlightened joy and love as an aspect of a stable and enduring spiritual “high plateau” state, referred to here as “Living Transcendence,” which contrasts with transient mystical or spiritual “peak” experiences. Drawing from a phenomenological study of 32 “spiritual exemplars” from various traditions, the research identifies key characteristics of this state....
Renaissance and Reformation
December 9, 2024
Samuel J. Dubbelman, Erin Risch Zoutendam
1 citation
This article contributes to the study of Christian mysticism in the sixteenth century by providing translations of mystical terms from Johannes Altenstaig’s Vocabularius theologiae (1517), including extasis, devotio, contemplatio, meditatio, mysticum, orare/oratio, raptus, theologia mystica, and unio. The introduction offers an overview of Altenstaig’s biography and the theological dictionary...
Performance Research
November 16, 2024
Augusto Corrieri
The act of dying can be seen as somewhat ‘irreal’, as Maurice Blanchot wrote, especially so when it occurs in the context of a magic show. In different ways, the performance of magic plays with the levels of reality of theatre itself, whilst at times conjuring the possibility of an afterlife, and communing with the dead. The essay explores the question of theatre and dying by examining UK...
November 1, 2024
Marina Christodoulou
In this next chapter, three foundational principles are addressed that can be found both in esotericism and in classical philosophy: connection, aspiration, and questioning. Conceptions such as oneness, the Absolute, or simply God, have been foundational for philosophy and esotericism alike, and behind these conceptions there has been a similar ideal of connectedness. Both esotericism and...
October 28, 2024
Shunsuke Sato
This article critically analyzes the life and spiritual path of Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889–1929), a significant figure in the history of Indian Christianity and global Christian mysticism, in the early 20th century. He was born into a committed Sikh family, and upon his remarkable conversion to Christianity at age sixteen, Singh's radical spiritual vocation began. He combined Christian theology...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
October 24, 2024
Yue Sun, Yuehua Chen
The contemporary interpretation of Lao-Zhuang’s thought reveals a multidimensional dialogue between tradition and modernity, the local and the exotic, and East and West. The interaction between Lao-Zhuang’s thoughts and Western religious philosophy can be explored through the lens of mysticism. By examining the non-material nature of the Tao, the transcendence of language, and the cultivation...
Filozofia
October 14, 2024
Ethel Junco
The irrationalist and vitalist options in the philosophy of the early twentieth century find in María Zambrano a liminal proposal. The author proposes a double movement: archaizing in order to renew the model of a philosophy saturated with formulas and without experiential content. To do so, she reads Plato, the father of Greek rationalism, through her acute hermeneutics to demonstrate that the...
Teosofia: Indonesian Journal of Islamic Mysticism
September 30, 2024
Amir Yousefi, Ali Ashrafimami
The present article examines Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī’s reputation as a mystic of “intoxication” (sukr). The origin and validity of such labels are analyzed by examining their most famous example. It should be noted that for the first time, the author of Kashf al-Maḥjūb labels Bāyazīd as the pioneer of “intoxicated” Ṣūfis. Thus, the main question of this paper is to find out whether Hujwīrī had a...
Religions
September 27, 2024
Davide Tramarin
Much scholarly attention has been paid to The Visitation group housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The sculpture, dated between 1310 and 1320 and attributed to Master Heinrich of Constance, comes from the Dominican convent of St. Katherinental, in present-day Switzerland, and is notable for its two rock crystal cabochons embedded in the wombs of the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth. In this...