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Knowledge at the Limit -- About Tomás, for Example
By Stephan Palmié Within days of Columbus’ landing in the Bahamas thinking he was close to mainland of China, he…
Buddhist Psychology as Esoteric Activism?
By Albrecht, Jessica A “Buddhist psychology” is a naming of a specific understanding of Buddhist teachings (such as mindfulness) and…
Excursion to Bamberg
Check out some images from a sunny trip to Bamberg by CAS-E fellows Lili Di Puppo, Tommaso Previato and Sergio…
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- by Farish A. Noor On May 2, 2023 I gave a lecture entitled ‘The Uses of Magic,” in which I looked at the works of the British colonial-era scholar Walter William...
- by Knut Graw At the end of a long and intricate divination session in a small, secluded room located against the back wall of a larger family compound in Serekunda, one...
- by Keith Edward Cantú I remember the first time walking up to Sri Sabapathy Lingeshwarar Koil, the temple of Sabapathy as Lord of the Lingam (Sanskrit: Śivaliṅga), or phallic stone that...
- By Flaminia Pischedda Imagine stumbling upon a collection of ancient texts hidden from the world for centuries, only to be surrounded by controversy upon their discovery. This is the essence of...
- By Kelly E. Hayes In May 2023, King Charles III was crowned with all the pomp and circumstance that the shrunken British Empire can still muster in the way of symbolic...
- by Dendup Chophel As an anthropologist studying my own country while being situated, enriched, and limited by the structures and discourses of Western academia in various countries around the world, I...
- By Anna Ozhiganova A variety of esoteric practices around the world aim at spiritual self-transformation and unlocking a person’s hidden or supernatural abilities. In contrast, practices that target infants or even...
- By Aleksandrs Simons My research and deep interest into the religion of the Yi minority in China started in the spring of 2014, simply after reading a single word “Bimoism”when deciding...
- By Michael Lackner The term “esoteric” has no real equivalent in Chinese. For “esoteric Buddhism” and Tantrism, the term mijiao 密教, roughly: “secret doctrine” has become common. Outside of the Buddhist...
- By Bernd-Christian Otto I see the traces of my dance on the soil before me, as if my feet have painted a brownish lane across the grassland. The ‘tree of life’...
