L’empire de l’imaginaire : la fin du monde et son rapport à l’histoire dans l’œuvre de Lucian Boia by Aurélien Portelli

“…For this historian, the narratives of the end of the world refer, beyond their obvious differences, to the same archetypal structures, which he essentially associates with the imaginaries of divination and escape. Collapsology, which emerged in France in 2015, echoes the prophecies of doom that have been announcing the end of the world for thousands of years. …”
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Von Übermensch und Übersinn by Gerhard Schmitt

“…Il convient à cet égard de remarquer tout particulièrement que chez Jung le développement d’une pratique analytique va de pair avec l’élaboration de son image du divin.…”
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Robert Marteau ou la résistance catholique en poésie by Gérard Fabre

“…Résistance à la négation des sources divines de la création artistique. Cette poésie affirme donc l’absolue nécessité du règne de Dieu, dont la présence relativise et limite les pouvoirs devenus exorbitants de l’humain. …”
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Le débat juridique et religieux sur la sorcellerie en Libye by Mazek Ayoub

“…In 2024, the Authority succeeded in enacting Law No. 6, which criminalizes witchcraft, conjuring, divination, and related practices. This law and the “ḥaṣīn” program have sparked intense debates. …”
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"The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…Through the use of proverbial narration, Fa­Iola presents a tale replete with magic, religion, divination, spirituality and various folklore elements. …”
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Editorial by Johannes A Smit, Denzil Chetty

“…This comes after nearly 50 years since he started teaching Comparative Religion in the then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1969, and also 40 years, since he started as Senior Lecturer in 1977, at the then University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg campus, teaching Philosophy of Religion in the Depart-ment of Divinity1. It is also nearly 40 years since he was introduced to Process Philosophy and wrote his review of Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition, by John B. …”
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Penser au singulier [1984] by Éric de Dampierre

“…Evans-Pritchard, consacré à l’étude de la causalité et de la divination, attirait à nouveau l’attention sur les sociétés zandé et nzakara. …”
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Western Medical Rehabilitation through Time: A Historical and Epistemological Review by Andrea A. Conti

“…In ancient Greece disability was surmounted only by means of its complete removal, and given that disease was considered a punishment attributed by divinities to human beings because of their faults and sins, only a full physical, mental, and moral recovery could reinsert disabled subjects back in the society of “normal” people. …”
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Kesohihan Akidah Di Luar Empirisme: Menjawab Kritik Guru Gembul Melalui Metode Rasional Dan Kausalitas by Bagus Kusumo Hadi, Dewi Setia Wati, Muhammad Alvin Saputra, Abdul Qodir Zaelani, Dino Gautman Raharjo Hadi

“… This study explores the critique of empiricism toward Islamic creed (akidah) as presented by Jafar Rohadi (known as Guru Gembul), who argues that faith, creed, and the concept of divinity are unscientific and subjective because they cannot be empirically proven. …”
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Early Modern Exemplars: Reading Strategies and the Assertion of Readerly Identity and Authority in the Life-writing of Mary Ward, Dionys Fitzherbert and Elizabeth Isham by Martin Thompson

“…This article combines close readings with material analysis of three female-authored autobiographical manuscripts to suggest that, contrary to Western, Protestant and masculine assumptions, these pious seventeenth-century women perceived of themselves primarily not only as authors but readers of their own divinely-authored life stories. Focusing primarily on the paratexts attached to life narratives of Mary Ward (1585-1645), Dionys Fitzherbert (c.1580-c.1642) and Elizabeth Isham (1609-1654), it identifies – across the Reformation confessional divide – common semantic and grammatical patterns which demonstrate that these texts advocated and illustrated particular reading strategies that encouraged their audiences too to see their own lives as texts to be read. …”
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“When the Cock crows, the Devil Falls” – a Review of Christian Thought Concerning Birds in Selected Folk Tales by Agnieszka Tańczuk

“…When one joined it with divinity, it aroused fear even more, but also evoked greater fascination. …”
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Literatura parenetică. Modelele bizantin, occidental și național by Eugen Simion

“…The conceptual term of Middle Ages (id est an age of darkness, mysticism, scholastics, spiritual asceticism) is revised; it is shown, according to historian Le Goff, that the respective age was one of cathedrals, therefore of real creation in which, besides the representative types (the saint and the knight), a third emblematic character came into being: the solitary thinker, the meditative spirit who, looking for a model of existence, brings back the ideas, virtues and myths of Antiquity and, at the same time, thinks of himself in relation with the Divinity. Another question which the study proposes for debate is the one of the literary character of the parenetic writings, thought under a threefold aspect: (a) their aesthetic value; (b) influence and/or belonging to cultural structures before the literary languages were formed; (c) otherqualities, signs, topics of the national spirituality, as it is regularly done in revealing the fiction works. …”
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ENSEMBLE MUSIC AS EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE RESOURCE. ONLINE SEMINAR REVIEW by Valentina L. Boiko, Svetlana A. Mitasova, Sergey G. Chaikin

“…Music has always been a magnet for the greatest minds of mankind considering it as a cultural phenomenon, as manifestation of Divinity, and as a specific art form. Philosophic studies of music nature show that origins of spiritual culture can be seen as deep as in the earliest civilization periods. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Mysticism, East and West by Rudolf Otto by Hadi Vakili

“…The nature of the western-eastern philosophy of the comparative religion of Otto first appeared in 1923, in the form of the book of the Holy Idea: The study of the irrational factor in the idea of the divinity and its relation to the rational, and then published more widely and deeply in the Mysticism, East and West, published in 1926. …”
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Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Gribble

“…Transcending simplifying providential and romance plots, the novel’s focus on the urgent personal and philosophical question of ‘what nature is’ draws on the insights of Romanticism to probe the relationship between the observable universe of nature’s laws and belief in a divinely-activated universe of meaningful pattern and revelation.…”
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Rethinking the roles of pastoralists’ indigenous religious practices in Nuer nation Zone, Gambella Region, South-West Ethiopia by Chayot Gatdet

“…The result found that appeasing spirits (82%), sacrifice (89%), divination (76%), and communal ceremonies (94%) were practiced in the study areas. …”
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Le régime alimentaire des Gorilles de plaine de l’Est, Gorilla beringei graueri et la pharmacopée humaine : Alimentation ou automédication ? by Dalley-Divin Kambale Saa-Sita, Shelly Masi, Aimée Lorela Katungu Sawa-Sawa, Jean-Claude Kyungu Kasolene, Jean Malekani Mukulire

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Goddess Worship and New Spirituality in the Postmodern World: a Brief Overview by T. V. Danylova

“…As humanity returns to the Absolute that transcends duality, as divinity is revealed in feminine and masculine forms, and, finally, as humans get in touch with their true self, the two faces, feminine and masculine, will inevitably merge. …”
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Figurines féminines archaïques de terre cuite en contexte funéraire punique dans la Méditerranée centrale et occidentale by Joan Ramon Torres, Chahla Dhahbi

“…Sous une optique scientifique moderne, on se propose ici de récupérer et de revoir le contexte d’où ces éléments procèdent, dans le but d’établir un nouveau paradigme, bien au-delà des topiques, apparemment immuables, qui ne voient dans ces statuettes d’autre que des représentations divines, sans aucun rôle que celui de protéger les morts auxquels on les suppose associées.…”
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Breaking the Frame: Arabesque and Metric Complexity in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912) by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

“…At this moment, the motif bursts into the foreground to suggest the symbolic fusion of nature, divinity, and human emotion. The structural role of the arabesque figure on metric and narrative levels unsettles prevailing viewpoints of ornament as meaningless and non-essential. …”
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