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(0)Karl Baier
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
As the science of man, anthropology was among the most exciting disciplines during the period of intense change from the early modern era to modernity. Where demons had once wielded their power, after 1800, it was now the unlimited shoals of the subconscious that were disseminated. Or did they actually stay right next to each other and within one another?
Um 1800 verliert die Dämonologie ihre Deutungshegemonie. Viele psychische Phänomene werden...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
This book offers new theoretical insights into religious, esoteric, and philosophical practices and narratives that deal with "intentional transformative experiences." Exceptional life-changing experiences are often believed to be beyond the individual's control-they are thought to "simply happen." However, many individuals actively and self-reflectively search for transformative experiences. Intentional Transformative Experiences provides analyses...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
Catholicism and esotericism seem to have hostile relations but in fact the opposite is true. In both traditions, we find stigmata, revelations, visions, "magic", spiritualistic contacts. We explore which are the theological and sociological concepts which make this possible. The porous transfer zone between "orthodox" theology and "heretical" ideas is central. For example, the legitimating structure of "scripture and tradition" allowed for the integration...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
This volume addresses controversies connected to the testing of the capacities and potentials of mediums. Today we commonly associate the term "medium" with the technical communication between transmitters and receivers. Yet this term likewise applies to those who cooperate with agencies that exceed the presumed domain of the material world. Insofar as one presumes a division between distinctly opposed categories of religion and the secular, technical...