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The Utopian Project of the Late-Soviet Waterbirth Movement: Its Interactions with the Global New Age, and Nowadays Inheritors
The Utopian Project of the Late-Soviet Waterbirth Movement: Its Interactions with the Global New Age, and Nowadays Inheritors by CAS-E…
Symbolic action in Late Imperial China
Symbolic action in Late Imperial China by CAS-E Associated Scholar Fan-sen Wang My research project investigates the drastically new interpretations…
Discourses and Practices of Perfection in Sufism in the West
Discourses and Practices of Perfection in Sufism in the West by CAS-E Associated Scholar Oleg Yarosh My individual project examines…
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- By Andreas Nehring In my lecture I have been reflecting on a specific form of epistemology and on the use of science in a globally engaged field where tools of academic...
- By Zheng Liu I arrived at the office and waited for him. When I opened the door, everything seemed familiar and unfamiliar. Sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting a gentle...
- By Julia Gyimesi Although rarely emphasized by historians of psychology, besides philosophy, medicine, and further branches of science, esotericism has had a significant impact on certain schools of psychology. In the...
- Our second international CAS-E conference “The Politics of Authenticity in Esoteric Practices” took place from November 15 to 17, 2023 at the conference center “Forschungscampus Waischenfeld”,” nested in a beautiful Franconian...
- By Juan Rivera Cañaris is one of the indigenous societies of the vast South American highlands. Despite being also part of the contemporary Peruvian Andean societies, the ethnography of this area...
- By Cecilia Bastos Connecting to a “more than human” universe (Pushkar, India 2008) Historically, modern yoga blossomed from an initial globalisation, being both “Western” and neo-Hindu (Altglas 2007) in its bricolage...
- By Jane Parish Examining the religious practices of so-called West African ‘voodoo’ and ‘witch doctors’ what social and economic role do these seemingly esoteric figures play in one of the most...
- By James Edmonds I sat snacking on a bench anxiously awaiting the arrival of Habib Syech bin Abdul Qadir Assegaf at the Solo, Indonesia train station. Habib Syech had several performances...
- By Ilia Mozias In the realm of esoteric practices, a fundamental question arises: Are these practices genuine and capable of yielding results, or are they merely products of the imagination of...
- By Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm Why is enchantment both widespread and suppressed? Put differently, disenchantment is a myth, why is there a prevailing belief in its existence? Since the release of...
