Peace in the spirituality of Thomas á Kempis. An aesthetic perspective on the Imitatio Christi 4.25 by P.G.R. de Villiers

“…A second section analyses the interiorising of peace as the human response to the divine gift and, finally, examines the mystical quality of the chapter in its discussion about the heart of peace as resting in God. …”
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ON THE HIGH SEA OF SPIRITUALITY. ANTECEDENTS AND DETERMINANTS OF DISCERNMENT AMONG SCHOOL LEADERS IN INDIA by C.A.M. Hermans, F.V. Anthony

“…They report higher levels of discernment, if they report a stronger spiritual character trait of self-directed-cooperativeness, more spiritual capital (both claiming the absolute truth of their own religion and/or truth emerging from religious pluralism), and a higher level of mystic experiences. …”
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Kesurupan Massal di Sekolah Menengah: Kerasukan Roh Jahat atau Emotional Contagion? by Imaduddin Hamzah

“…The findings show that there are seven categories of factors on mass trance: emotional stimulus, mystical experiences, suggestability, supernatural interpretation, anomalous experience, unconditioned emotional response, and mimicry. …”
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Tension in Modernist Art and Lyric Poetry at the Beginning of the 20th Century in Estonian Culture: Ernst Enno and Others by Anneli Mihkelev

“…He was interested in Oriental religion, which influenced his poetry to become less rational and more mystical. Ridala and Enno also used visual effects, and their texts have been set to music as well as becoming part of the visual arts in films and serials. …”
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Disability and Human Diversity: A Reinterpretation of Ẹni-òòṣà1 Philosophy in Yorùbá Belief by Omotade Adegbindin

“…Consequently, it questions the assumptions associated with the recognition of the dichotomy between “normality” and “abnormality” and confronts the mystical and/or mythographic representation of ẹni-òòṣà or persons with disabilities with a view to offering new insights into how persons with disabilities ought to be conceptualized in order to promote their inherent human dignity. …”
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WE INTER-ARE: THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGE REDEFINING HUMANS AND COMMUNITIES by K. Abraham

“…In this context, ecofeminist reconstruction of relationality is projected as a corrective, as it focuses on linking relationships instead of ranking relationships. In addition, the mystical notion “We Inter-Are”, shared by the visionary Buddhist sage Thich Nhat Hanh, is proposed as a key for growing into a consciousness of inter-relationality with other beings on this planet, as it opens us to the infinite mystery of the deeper relatedness of all forms of life. …”
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‘Senses’: Assessing a Key Term inDavid Chidester’s Analysis of Religion by Johan M. Strijdom

“…Under ‘senses’ Chidester includes not only the five conventional senses of Aristotle, but also analyzes metaphorical uses of the senses in religious discourse, the visions and dreams of mystics and shamans, and eventually new media as extensions of the human senses. …”
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La Tentation de Saint-Antoine au Chat Noir : un exemple de collaboration multidisciplinaire by Michela Niccolai

“…Among the adaptations of La Tentation de saint Antoine de Flaubert, the one made by Henri Rivière deserves special attention. « Féerie à grand spectacle en 2 actes et 40 tableaux », La Tentation for the shadow theatre (1887) is a composite show that blended the visual component with the music (original and arranged by Albert Tinchant and Georges Fragerolle) inside a fixed device where the evocative appearance of the paintings carried the viewer into a mystical universe. The music plays a central role because, in the absence of a text, it must be narrated, so that known tunes, drawn from operas, operettas and café-concert, often used with a parodic sense, alternate with original music composed by Tinchant and Fragerolle. …”
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Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure by Dorothée Delacroix

“…The social and political effects in post-CVR Peru of this staging of ethnicity based on a mystical cosmology are also discussed.…”
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Deconstructing Theology or Prophetic Theology? A Comparative Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Christian Perspective by Nathanael Neacșu

“…In the Orthodox understanding, the work of theology is understood to be, in the first place, a personal relationship with and experience of God, both from a mystical and sacramental perspective, and, through this, an actualisation of the work and message of God’s Revelation, making it present in the context of each historical and cultural circumstance. …”
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Ethnogenèse du New Age andin : à la recherche de l’Inca global by Antoinette Molinié

“…In Peru, we witness the emergence of an original culture that takes its roots from two matrices: the Andean culture that results from a fusion of the pre-Hispanic culture with Christianism, and the New Age movement that has been introduced with mystic tourism. The fusion of these two strands gives rise to ritual creations that we describe and analyze. …”
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Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…The obscure spiritual experience thus pursued is that of an absolute in art, the paradoxical experience of a “mystic who believes in nothing” (as Flaubert called himself), which the critic links to a questioning of his own conversion.…”
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S’unir au Prophète. L’expérience matérielle, esthétique et dévotionnelle du Dalā’il al-Khayrāt au Maroc. Approches codicologique et anthropologique by Hiba Abid, Anouk Cohen

“…The Dalā’il al-Khayrāt wa Shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāt ‘alā al-Nabiy al-mukhṭār (Dalā’il al-Khayrāt) is a book of prayers and invocations about the Prophet Muhammad, written around 857/1453 by the Moroccan mystic Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Jazūlī (d. 869/1465), founder of a new Sufi path, the Jazūliyya, considered as a branch of the Shādhiliyya, and whose popularity very quickly won over the entire kingdom. …”
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At the Origins of the University Education System in Russia by Vasily N. Ponomarev

“…Lomonosov were halted by the obscurantists and mystics. The universities were treated as hotbeds of freethinking, moral depravity, and philosophy was demonized as a source of spiritual contagion.…”
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Musical Instruments of the Turkic Peoples of the Volga Region and Urals by Gulnara Khayrullina

“…Singing was accompanied by pagan and mystical sacraments, holidays, household and daily rituals such as hunting, harvesting and much more, including military campaigns. …”
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L’agonie de Raimundo, fils d’Unamuno, et le sentiment comique de la vie by Yves Roullière

“…In contrast, this study will attempt to show that Raimundo's traumatic and hard existence had a decisive influence on the main aspects of Unamuno's work: philosophical, mystical, poetic and fictional, particularly in his approach to tragedy and comedy, sentiment and love.…”
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The enigma of validity: Speculations on the last paragraph of Donner le temps II by Rezende Gabriel

“…In this paper, I will trace some of the clues Derrida leaves in Donner le temps II and other texts, arguing that the “mystery of normativity” is bound to the ambiguous status of legality within metaphysics. Validity, as the mystical foundation of normativity, functions simultaneously as a metaphysical shortcut to secure self-reference in philosophical thought and as the impossibility of any foundational grounding (Grundlegung).…”
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TRAGIŠKOJO JAUSMO INTERPRETACIJA FRIEDRICHO NIETZSCHE'S FILOSOFIJOJE by Aušra Polovikaitė

“…The early Greek drama made accessible through music to the audience-worshippers the Dionysian as an ecstatic and mystic direct connection with cosmic Nature (the Oneness), in which the individual will was obliterated. …”
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Discernment - the compass on the high sea of spirituality by Kees Waaijman

“…It first describes the complexity of spirituality as a phenomenon that has, on a cultural, anthropological and mystical level, lost its boundaries and expanded beyond all existing horizons. …”
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Proverbs in Yorùbá Contemporary Songs by Oluwafunminiyi Mabawonku

“…This study reveals that the use of proverbs as indigenous tattoos has elevated both the language of the song artists to the status of living art of popular communication and their personalities to that of a mystic ‘massieur’ as there is the need to localize the global issues and globalized the local ones. …”
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