Skepping en evolusie: 'n filosofiese besinning oor tyd, ruimte en materie by P. H. Stoker

“…Accepting time linearity and physical uniformitarianism, disregarding supernatural acts and catastrophes, natural sciences reconstruct the past from the present. …”
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Perspectives rituelles dans les Plaines et sur la Côte Nord-Ouest by Klaus Hamberger

“…In the Plains, the ritual aim was to transfer the power of supernatural predators to humans; on the Northwest Coast, to re-transform supernatural predators into human beings. …”
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Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli by Rafael Pascual

“…This fire, which the king describes as a nīðwundor (a dreadful wonder), has traditionally been seen by scholars as a supernatural phenomenon that contributes to the presentation of the place as eerie. …”
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Alternative treatment for schizophrenia with a local wisdom approach in the Tidung tribe community of Tarakan City: a descriptive qualitative study by Darni Darni, Sulidah Sulidah, Ramdya Akbar Tukan, Rts Netisa Martawinarti, Siti Khadijah, Putri Irwanti Sari

“…We view traditional medicine in this context as a combination of prayer (supernatural components), action (administering potions), and therapy. …”
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Freud, la répétition et les figures de la hantise pulsionnelle by Claire Pagès

“…Despite Freud’s rationalist rejection of the obsession as supernatural phenomenon, we propose to demonstrate that there is a great theory of instinctual obsession in freudian psychoanalysis. …”
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Destiny, Miracle Healers and Magical Intervention: Vernacular Beliefs on Involuntary Childlessness in Estonia by Reet Hiiemäe

“…Secondly, conclusions drawn from the collected material, i.e. the temporary and changeable nature of those beliefs, their relations with the mass media, the social and the individual aspects and the motifs of guilt and supernatural punishment in the context of identity issues will be presented, concluding that such belief-based models of explanation and help-seeking eventually function as a mental self-defence mechanism.…”
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Virtuoses ambivalents by Graham Jones

“…Emphatically denying supernatural powers and scrupulously avoiding any effects that resemble biblical miracles, they take care to present their performances as clever tricks clearly designed to entertain, educate and galvanize. …”
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Holiness and taboo in the Zion Christian Church by S Moripe

“…Mana is a mysterious kind of supernatural power, a potential energy which people believe to be in and behing all men/women and things. …”
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« All London was one grey temple of an awful rite » : Londres dans The Hill of Dreams d’Arthur Machen (1907) by Sophie Mantrant

“…This transformation is part of the thematic thread of ‘persistence’ that runs throughout Machen’s work, the past persisting in the present. In the supernatural tales, the past is embodied in a primitive race of horrifying creatures who have survived in the Welsh countryside. …”
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Open Your Eyes Wider: Overexposure in Contemporary American Film and TV Series by Monica Michlin

“…While there are realistic uses of excessive lighting in film, overexposure almost always appears symbolic, and operates as a cinematic code that translates exposure to the magical, supernatural, or unconscious “other.” Because it is so often connected to the aesthetics of shock and revelation, overexposure often plays on the limits of what we can bear to watch. …”
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« But in that room, in that presence, I was invertebrate » : la peur de l’autre dans The Beetle de Richard Marsh by Catherine Lanone

“…Exploring unstable areas, The Beetle is a striking example of suburban Gothic, pitting the supernatural creature against the vagrant, the lady, the politician or the scientist, in order to challenge social but also gendered boundaries.…”
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Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt by Russ Castronovo

“…By considering Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel, Babbitt, this essay examines the continuum between the paranormal and the normal, the supernatural and the natural. The lesson of Babbitt reveals how the occult is absorbed under the aegis of the normal, the regular, the conventional. …”
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Bats of Florida by Holly K. Ober, Martin B. Main, Ginger M. Allen

“…Given their ability to function in the dark when and where humans cannot, it is no wonder that bats have long been associated with the supernatural. Bats remain poorly understood even today. …”
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Bats of Florida by Holly K. Ober, Martin B. Main, Ginger M. Allen

“…Given their ability to function in the dark when and where humans cannot, it is no wonder that bats have long been associated with the supernatural. Bats remain poorly understood even today. …”
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The cultural and historical significance of malopo ritual: a Pedi perspective by M. E. K. Lebaka

“… Indeed, the implicit hypothesis that “there is little possibility, if any, for the Pedi traditional healers to experience the supernatural form of healing without performing music and dancing to it” raises the issue of “What makes the dance potent as a healing therapy?” …”
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HERBERT MCCABE’S CHRISTOLOGY by F. Manni

“…As for Incarnation, he holds both Bultmann’s demythologisation and De Lubac’s supernatural. Therefore, Chalcedon should be revised, not abolished, despite Bultmann, and the pre-existence of Christ should be reinterpreted, not considered meaningless. …”
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“Strange Sights and Sounds”: Indirection and the Rhetoric of the Feminine in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Tales (1852-1930) by Audrey Fogels

“…Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) composes supernatural tales that address in a very indirect fashion disturbing issues such as child abuse, domestic violence and frustrated female desires. …”
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Ecclesial Politology: in Search of an Adequate Perspective of Viewing the Church in Political Studies by Tadeusz SDS Jarosz

“…A skillful combination of the two aspects of the concept of Church offers a more in-depth insight into the functioning of ecclesial institutions by emphasizing the supernatural element as a component of the social and political process. …”
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Tree Beings in Tibet: Contemporary Popular Concepts of klu and gnyan as a Result of Ecological Change by Jakub Kocurek

“…It focuses on ideas on supernatural beings believed to dwell in trees, particularly klu and gnyan, which form a part of the popular or so called nameless religion. …”
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Worship and spirituality as a praxis-orientated apologetic in a post-modern world (the New Age) - an incarnational engaged approach by EK Foshaugen

“…In this article it is argued that this is best done through the supernatural power of an incarnational, engaged worship and spirituality (of adoration and action). …”
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