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Journal articles on the topic "Science and spiritualism"
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MCGRATH, LARRY S. "ALFRED FOUILLÉE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALISM." Modern Intellectual History 12, no. 2 (October 15, 2014): 295–323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147924431400050x.
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This essay examines the rapprochement between science and metaphysics that the French philosopher Alfred Fouillée staged in his writings from 1872 up until his death in 1912. Amidst the influx of new research in scientific psychology inundating France in the late nineteenth century, Fouillée's thought stands out for its creative effort to advance a new spiritualist philosophy on the basis of positive scientific advancements. Fouillée's work is significant for intellectual historians of thought in the fin de siècle because it challenges the common historiographical narrative, initially presented in H. Stuart Hughes's Consciousness and Society, which erroneously frames spiritualist thinkers, Henri Bergson chief among them, as leading a “revolt against positivism.” Fouillée throws into stark relief a new spiritualist current that incorporated research in the natural and human sciences from across Europe in order to craft an updated understanding of consciousness. This essay treats Fouillée's work as a historical window onto a distinctly new spiritualism whose proponents sought to overcome the old spiritualism of Victor Cousin's eclectic school, which shunned any naturalist underpinning of metaphysics. While Fouillée has already been widely historicized as a social and political thinker, this essay introduces original archival materials that help to resituate Fouillée as a leading figure of the new spiritualism animating French philosophy in the final quarter of the nineteenth century.
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Razdyakonov, Vladislav. "Divine Laws and Miracles of Nature: Natural Theology of the Russian modern spiritualist Movement in the late XIXth – early XXth century." Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches 5, no. 2 (2021): 65–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/2587-683x-2021-5-2-65-84.
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Russian spiritualism movement of the 19th – early 20th century remains an understudied area of current scientific research. Its philosophical and theological aspects deserve more attention due to its marginal role on the epistemological borders between science and religion. The article aims to reveal the Russian spiritualists’ vision of the relationship between God and nature and for the first time overviews and analyses debates in Russian spiritualism about the problems of the philosophy of religion. The article considers spiritualists’ insight in the essence of “miracle” and “law”, interpretation of evolution as a teleological process; evaluation of different Divine Attributes and their role in theological criticism, and also spiritualists’ solution to the Problem of Evil and Suffering. The natural theology of modern spiritualism constitutes part of the general intellectual movement aimed to bring into harmony both scientific and religious worldviews in the second half of the 19th century. Works of both foreign and Russian spiritualists demonstrate that the sacralization of laws and “naturalization” of miracles were used by spiritualists to preserve the religious worldview at the time when monism and evolutionism established itself as the central ontological and main historical programmes in natural science. Still, the detailed analysis of philosophical aspects of Russian spiritualism challenges its widely-known characteristic as “synthesis” of science and religion and its simplistic characterization as being pantheistic in its nature. The article for the first time puts emphasis on the theistic current in Russian spiritualism and also highlights the key theme of its interaction with Russian philosophical thought – the survival of human personality. It encourages discussions on the role of engagement between spiritualistic movement and Russian religious philosophy at the turn of the 19th сentury.
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Larsen, Jordan. "The evolving spirit: morals and mutualism in Arabella Buckley's evolutionary epic." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 71, no. 4 (September 6, 2017): 385–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0056.
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Contemporaries of Charles Darwin were divided on reconciling his theory of natural selection with religion and morality. Although Alfred Russel Wallace stands out as a spiritualist advocate of natural selection who rejected a natural origin of morality, the science popularizer and spiritualist Arabella Buckley (1840–1929) offers a more representative example of how theists, whether spiritualist or more orthodox in their religion, found reconciliation. Unlike Wallace, Buckley emphasized the lawful evolution of morality and of the soul, drawing from the theological tradition of traducianism. Significantly, Buckley argued for a mutualistic and deeply theistic interpretation of Darwinian evolution, particularly the evolution of morals, without sacrificing the uniformity of natural law. Though Buckley's understanding of the evolutionary epic has been represented as emphasizing mutualism (Gates 1998) and spiritualist theology (Lightman 2007), here I demonstrate that her distinctive addition to the debate lies in her unifying theory of traducianism. In contrast to other authors, I argue that through Buckley we better understand Victorian spiritualism as more of a religion than an occult science. However, it was a conception of religion that, through her evolutionary traducianism, bridged science and spiritualism. This offers historians a more complex but satisfying image of the Victorian worldview after Darwin.
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Nakao, Maika. "Radium traffic: radiation, science and spiritualism in early twentieth-century Japan." Medical History 65, no. 1 (December 15, 2020): 32–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2020.47.
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AbstractThe emergence of modern health-related commodities and tourism in the late Meiji and Taishō eras (1900s–1920s) was accompanied by a revival of spiritualist religions, many of which had their origins in folk belief. What helped this was the people’s interpretation of radiation. This article underscores the linkages between radiation, science and spiritualism in Japan at the time of modernisation and imperialism. In the early twentieth century, the general public came to know about radiation because it was deemed to have special efficacy in healing the human body. In Japan, the concept of radiation harmonised with both Western culture and Japanese traditional culture. One can see the fusion of Western and traditional culture both in people’s lives and commercial culture through the popularity and availability of radium hot springs and radioactive commodities. Radium hot springs became fashionable in Japan in the 1910s. As scholars reported that radium provided the real potency of hot springs, local hot springs villages seized on the scientific explanation and connected their developments with national policies and industries. This paper illustrates how the discourse about radium, which came from the field of radiation medicine, connected science and spiritualism in modern Japan.
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McCorristine, Shane. "Science and Spiritualism in an Irish Context." Aries 22, no. 1 (November 22, 2021): 89–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700593-02201005.
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Abstract William Fletcher Barrett (1844–1925) has long been recognised for his key role in the foundation of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882, but this came after years of working as a physicist and psychical researcher between Ireland and Britain, conducting mesmeric experiments, maintaining correspondence, and sharing research ideas at forums like the British Association for the Advancement of Science. This article re-evaluates Barrett’s career by focusing on his networks, projects, and organisations in Ireland. These acted as bridges connecting his work as a teacher of physics with his work as a psychical researcher and investigator of spiritualism. In doing so, this article also contributes to the history of spiritualism in Ireland by demonstrating the rich connections which existed between scientists, intellectuals, and amateur investigators in the area of spiritualism and psychical research.
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SWATOS, William H. "Spiritualism as a Religion of Science." Social Compass 37, no. 4 (December 1990): 471–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003776890037004005.
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Razdyiakonov, Vladislav. "The Revolution of the Spirits for the Spiritual Brotherhood: Russian Spiritualist Movement and Its Social Ideals." State Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide 38, no. 4 (2020): 318–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2020-38-4-318-342.
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The article offers a reconstruction of the social ideals of Russian spiritualists. Main sources include texts revealing spiritualists’ ideas about the structure of the spiritual world; structure and characteristics of spiritual circles; and literary works by spiritualists reflecting their social ideals. Although the social and political views of Russian spiritualists were mostly conservative, their ontological views contained elements of social radicalism. The author distinguishes between the two types of spiritualists — rationalists and traditionalists — depending on their attitude towards the Orthodox Church, Christian theology and their specific views about the spiritual world. All spiritualists viewed the society critically as gripped with disease. Rationalist spiritualism was critical towards Christian dogmatic and practice, and although its supporters advocated the preservation of the social and political status quo, they hoped for both gradual social and political transformation and the realization of social ideals in the spiritual world. The traditionalists, despite their commitment to monarchy and the Church institution, expected a millenarian overturn and thus challenged the social and political order. Overall, the spiritualist social ideals are close to communitarian social projects based upon the idea of Christian brotherhood.
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Asekhauno, Anthony Afe, and Emmanuel Asia. "African Pragmatic Spiritualism as Neo-Science: A Bergsonian/Whiteheadian Critique of Hountondji." SIASAT 6, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 82–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/siasat.v6i2.92.
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Arguably, spiritualism is the most central of African philosophical systems. Amongst Africans, all reality is replete with spiritual involvement a pragmatic involvement. Spiritualism is typical and topical all around traditional African cultures, empirically manifested in all areas of human knowledge and experience including medicine, communication and transportation, entertainment, and the disquisition of justice. African spiritual capacity is a pragmatic reflection of African didactic strides. While this categorization may be apt and adequate for those sympathetic with truth and the African course, it, however, is either untrue or unscientific, a mark of primitivism. Clearly, it is outmoded and untenable to some others, including the Ivoirian-born Beninese Paulin Hountondji. This work reviews the major substance of Hountondji’s critical views on African spiritualism with a view to debunking them by adducing by the canons set by the process philosophies of Henry Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead. The trajectory attempts to build a theoretical pedestal for the grounding of an African esoteric philosophy, which is at once uniquely spiritual and pragmatic—hence the phrase, pragmatic spiritualism or spiritual pragmatism; a method and model recommended for wider feat in all human affairs and dealings with nature.
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Platt, R. Eric, and Hannah Holliman Paris. "A Ghostly Closure? The Strange History of Brinkley Female College, Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism, and the Terminal Effects of Sensationalist Journalism." Journal of Curriculum Studies Research 4, no. 1 (February 18, 2022): 58–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.46303/jcsr.2022.6.
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In 1871, Brinkley Female College in Memphis, Tennessee, closed due to a ghost story, regional interest in Spiritualism, and sensationalist journalism that harmed the short-lived academy. Spiritualism—a religio-spiritual movement punctuated by medium-guided communications between the living and deceased—was well-followed, though often contested during the nineteenth century. Spiritualism grew in popularity in the American South due to mass deaths resulting from yearly epidemics and the American Civil War. At the same time, sensationalist print media was widespread, and newspaper firms profited from unchecked accounts of Spiritualist seances and supernatural encounters. In the midst of this, higher education had expanded across the state of Tennessee. In the early years of Memphis-based women’s higher education, newspapers stoked interest in the paranormal by publishing unverified events attributed to a local women’s college. Sensationalist, penny-dreadful newspaper accounts influenced public perceptions, caused enrollment decline at Brinkley Female College, and resulted in institutional closure. As such, this case study recounts an unusual catalytic moment within the context of heightened Spiritualistic belief and uncouth journalistic practices. Ultimately, this study seeks to detail the influence of regional religious practices and sensational journalism on institutional termination.
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Hirst, Russel. "Indicting the Devil: Austin Phelps’s Fight Against Spiritualism." Journal of Communication and Religion 37, no. 3 (2014): 17–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jcr201437318.
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This article analyzes the rhetorical strategies of a nineteenth-century American professor of sacred rhetoric, Austin Phelps, in his opposition to the Spiritualist movement. Phelps’s approach encapsulates the most effective arguments used by a class of thinkers who were liberally educated, held great respect for science, and for whom biblical accounts of demonic activity continued to shed valid light upon modern-day phenomena. His booklet Spiritualism: The Argument in Brief (1871) employs elements of legal reasoning, especially a stasis approach—finding the “stopping points” in a judicial case—and apophatic strategy: using definition by negation to convince an audience to accept the rhetor’s definition of a key concept or term. “Counselor” Phelps grounds his arguments and conclusions in common experience, historical consciousness, commonly held religious belief, moral obligation, and professional duty. Far from being an unsophisticated rant about devils, Phelps’s treatment of Spiritualism was a high point of reasoned, classically argued discourse in the special domain of religious rhetoric: the supernatural.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Science and spiritualism"
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Noakes, Richard John. "'Cranks and visionaries' : science, spiritualism and transgression in Victorian Britain." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272502.
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AXOX, CHIARA DE OLIVEIRA CASAGRANDE CIODAROT DI. "SOLVE ET COAGULA: DISSOLVING GUIMARÃES ROSA AND REBUILTING HIM THROUGH SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALISM." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30049@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROEm Solve et Coagula - dissolvendo Guimarães Rosa e recompondo-o pela ciência e espiritualidade é investigada a importância da espiritualidade na formação do escritor Guimarães Rosa e na confecção de suas obras, principalmente Primeiras Estórias e Ave, Palavra. A partir de relatos de amigos e parentes, entrevistas, cartas e anotações pessoais, analisa-se como esse interesse pela espiritualidade - principalmente pela Cabala, Tarô e Astrologia - aparece nos seus textos, tanto na construção quanto em personagens, linguagem e estórias, em equilíbrio com um pensamento cientificista. Para melhor compreender a questão espiritual do escritor mineiro e o seu desenvolvimento na ficção, também é estudada a visão de religiosidade rosiana analisada por Vilém Flusser e como ela se relacionaria diretamente com a linguagem poética do escritor mineiro.
Solve et Coagula - dissolving Guimarães Rosa and rebuilting him through science and spiritualism analyses the importance of spiritualism in Guimarães Rosa s life and work, mainly in the process of writing Primeiras Estórias and Ave, Palavra. It s studied friends and family testimonials, interviews, letters and his notebooks, to understand how HIS interest IN SPIRITUALISM - SPECIALLY in Kabala, Tarot and Astrology - appears in his books, from the creative process throughout the narrative, characters and language, in balance with a scientific thought. And it s also analysed his feeling of religious studied by Vilém Flusser and how it s related to the poetic language of Guimarães Rosa.
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Drawmer, Lois Jane. "The impact of science and spiritualism on the works of Evelyn De Morgan 1870-1919." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2001. http://bucks.collections.crest.ac.uk/9963/.
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This thesis examines the extent to which spiritualism and science inform the paintings of Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919). I propose that her works in the period 1870-1919 incorporate Darwinist themes of evolutionary development integrated with a spiritualist paradigm of the progression of the soul after death. Chapter one examines the context and influences on De Morgan's mature works, including her family and friends. It considers the impact of her role as a professional woman artist in Pre-Raphaelite circies, and also her engagement with spiritualist practices as a medium. Chapter two argues that De Morgan's works are underpinned by a Darwinian model of evolution, expressed in her works as the progression of the soul, through the vehicle of the female physical body to the metaphysical realm. Chapter three considers how De Morgan reconfigures traditional Christian iconography and narratives through Platonist philosophy in order to create an alternative, feminist vision of divinity. Chapter four continues the exploration of science and spiritualism in relation to female empowerment through De Morgan's representation of witches and occult figures. It proposes that De Morgan's involvement in female suffrage and experience as a medium generate specific spiritualist meanings in her portrayal of occult figures. Chapter five asserts that De Morgan's recurrent concern with water and related imagery correlates with her spiritualist beliefs. It seeks to demonstrate that paintings with water imagery, including sea-scapes, sheils and mermaids, conflate contemporary scientific and spiritualist concerns, which integrate the idea of evolutionary and spiritual development. The conclusion draws together the principal findings of the thesis, and argues that the empirical evidence and close analysis of De Morgan's works in the period 1870-1919 show that they are primarily motivated by De Morgan's engagement with spiritualism.
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Bingham, Stephanie Michelle. "The Psychic Bridge: The Spiritualist Movement." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334539774.
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Hallim, Robyn. "Marie Corelli: Science, Society and the Best Seller." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/521.
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Issues which faced Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include the effects of new scientific theories on traditional religious belief, the impact of technological innovation, the implications of mass literacy and the changing role of women. This thesis records how such issues are reflected in contemporary literature, focusing on the emergence of popular culture and the best seller, a term which conflates author and novel. The first English best seller was Marie Corelli and, by way of introduction, Part I offers a summary of her life and her novels and a critical overview of her work. Part II of the thesis examines how the theory of evolution undermined traditional religious belief and prompted the search for a new creed able to defy materialism and reconcile science and religion. Contemporary literature mirrors the consequent interest in spiritualism during the 1890s and the period immediately following the Great War, and critical readings of Corelli�s A Romance of Two Worlds and The Life Everlasting demonstrate that these novels - which form the nucleus of her personal theology, the Electric Creed - are based on selections from the New Testament, occultism and, in particular, science and spiritualism. Part III of the thesis looks at the emergence of �the woman question�, the corresponding backlash by conservatives and the ways in which these conflicting views are explored in the popular literature of the time. A critical examination of the novella, My Wonderful Wife, reveals how Corelli uses social Darwinism in an ambivalent critique of the New Woman. Several of Corelli�s essays are discussed, showing that her views about the role of women were complex. A critical analysis of The Secret Power engages with Corelli�s peculiar kind of feminism, which would deny women the vote but envisages female scientists inventing and operating airships in order to secure the future of the human race. Interest in Marie Corelli has re-emerged recently, particularly in occult and feminist circles. Corelli�s immense popularity also makes her an important figure in cultural studies. This thesis adds to the body of knowledge about Corelli in that it consciously endeavours to avoid spiritualist or feminist ideological frameworks, instead using contemporary science as a context for examining her work.
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Hallim, Robyn. "Marie Corelli science, society and the best seller /." University of Sydney. English, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/521.
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Issues which faced Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include the effects of new scientific theories on traditional religious belief, the impact of technological innovation, the implications of mass literacy and the changing role of women. This thesis records how such issues are reflected in contemporary literature, focusing on the emergence of popular culture and the best seller, a term which conflates author and novel. The first English best seller was Marie Corelli and, by way of introduction, Part I offers a summary of her life and her novels and a critical overview of her work. Part II of the thesis examines how the theory of evolution undermined traditional religious belief and prompted the search for a new creed able to defy materialism and reconcile science and religion. Contemporary literature mirrors the consequent interest in spiritualism during the 1890s and the period immediately following the Great War, and critical readings of Corelli�s A Romance of Two Worlds and The Life Everlasting demonstrate that these novels - which form the nucleus of her personal theology, the Electric Creed - are based on selections from the New Testament, occultism and, in particular, science and spiritualism. Part III of the thesis looks at the emergence of �the woman question�, the corresponding backlash by conservatives and the ways in which these conflicting views are explored in the popular literature of the time. A critical examination of the novella, My Wonderful Wife, reveals how Corelli uses social Darwinism in an ambivalent critique of the New Woman. Several of Corelli�s essays are discussed, showing that her views about the role of women were complex. A critical analysis of The Secret Power engages with Corelli�s peculiar kind of feminism, which would deny women the vote but envisages female scientists inventing and operating airships in order to secure the future of the human race. Interest in Marie Corelli has re-emerged recently, particularly in occult and feminist circles. Corelli�s immense popularity also makes her an important figure in cultural studies. This thesis adds to the body of knowledge about Corelli in that it consciously endeavours to avoid spiritualist or feminist ideological frameworks, instead using contemporary science as a context for examining her work.
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Péran, Thomas. "La théorie de l'État de Georges Burdeau." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCB048.
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L'objet de cet ouvrage est, à titre principal, de se prononcer sur la qualité d'auteur d'une théorie de l'État de Georges Burdeau. Rédiger une théorie de l'État, c'est aller bien au-delà de la simple énonciation de termes explicatifs, aussi pertinents soient-ils. Ce qui compte, c'est leur agencement cohérent, et celui-ci ne s'obtient que par l'identification d'un concept de ramification. C'est l'idée de droit qui joue ce rôle dans le Traité de science politique de Georges Burdeau. Faisant partie de ceux que l'on pourrait désigner par l'expression de « juristes constitutionnalistes ouverts », Georges Burdeau enrichit sa définition de l'État et la fait commencer bien en amont de la pratique classique de la doctrine. Sociologiques, polémologiques et spiritualistes, les vues de Burdeau sur le droit et sur l'État s'apparentent à un nouveau réalisme institutionnel qui contribue assurément à apporter une profondeur supplémentaire à la science du droit. Empruntant beaucoup aux économistes néo-classiques étudiant les structures concurrentielles de marché, l'auteur en transpose magistralement les mécanismes dans ses analyses de la lutte politique. Il dresse ainsi une géopolitique des forces et n'hésite pas à établir que l'État est de la dialectique organiséeThe main purpose of this work is to establish whether Georges Burdeau has the quality of a State Theory's author. Writing a State Theory is to go beyond the mere enunciation of explanatory terms, however relevant they may be. What counts is their coherent arrangement, and this can only be achieved through the identification of a branching out concept. The "Idea of Law" plays this role in Georges Burdeau's Political Science Treaty. Georges Burdeau is a part of the so-called "open constitutional lawyers", he enriches his definition of the State, and makes it begin very upstream of the classical doctrine practice. Sociological, polemological and spiritualist, Burdeau's views on the Law and on the State are similar to a new institutional realism which certainly contributes to bring a greater depth to the Science of Law. Borrowing much from neo-classical economists studying competitive market structures, the author masterfully transposes the mechanisms in his analyses of the political struggle. He thus sets up a new geopolitics of forces and does not hesitate to establish that the State can be defined as an organized dialectic
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Delorme, Shannon. "The Unitarian physiologist : science and religion in the life and work of William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5372009d-0c43-4a8d-81ea-b5bddcd17c8d.
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This thesis provides the first comprehensive study of an eminent but oft-overlooked Victorian polymath, with the overarching aims of assessing his contributions to nineteenth-century intellectual life and of exploring the mutual relations between science and religion in his work. One of the towering figures of the Victorian scientific establishment, William Carpenter (1813-1885), F.R.S, was a famous physiologist and public figure. He is most remembered for his concept of 'unconscious cerebration' which contributed to the emergence of the disciplines of neurology and modern psychology, but Carpenter was also noted amongst his peers for his evolutionary approach to the study of the unicellular marine invertebrates known as the foraminifera. As a lifelong practicing Unitarian, Carpenter's outspoken support for evolutionary theory made him an exemplary advocate of the compatibility between rational thought and Christian belief amidst the Victorian debate about science and religion. As the Registrar of the University of London during its formative years, Carpenter also had a nationwide impact on the fortunes of scientific education and secondary education as a whole. Finally, as a populariser of science and public moralist, "Dr. Carpenter" was also well known to the Victorian public as one of the most outspoken critics of spiritualism, alleged paranormal phenomena, and superstition more generally. Nevertheless, no systematic study of Carpenter's work had until now been carried out, and the commonly held view that he lacked originality as a scientist had not been fully questioned. The current study therefore aims to review Carpenter's achievements and trace his intellectual legacy. As an intellectual biography, it argues that focusing on the now lesser-known members of the British intelligentsia can shine new light on the context of the professionalization of science in Victorian Britain. In its focus on science and religion, this thesis argues that a deeper understanding of Carpenter's Unitarianism must feature at the heart of any endeavour to analyse his work. Previous references to Carpenter either bypassed Unitarianism and its nineteenth-century transformations, or reduced Unitarian thought to certain core tenets that fell short of uncovering Carpenter's philosophical pursuits. Carpenter's Unitarianism is still often equated with the rationalism and mortalism that defined late eighteenth-century Unitarianism, and this failure to recognise how much Carpenter's own faith had departed from earlier strands of Unitarian belief has led to some misinterpretations of his motives. The current thesis therefore offers fresh interpretations of Carpenter's work, based on new archival material and recent historical studies of the shifting priorities shaping the more romantic and emotional spirituality of nineteenth-century Unitarianism. Taking an integrative approach to Carpenter's various projects makes it possible to show how seminal many of his ideas were, and how his Unitarianism, both in its social and spiritual dimensions, influenced his professional, political and intellectual choices. The biographical angle taken in this thesis also makes it possible to uncover a degree of epistemological coherence underpinning Carpenter's thought, and to argue that Carpenter's efforts to transcend conflicting viewpoints partook of his wider social and metaphysical aims.
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Cornillon, Claire. "Par-delà l'Infini. La Spiritualité dans la Science-Fiction française, anglaise et américaine." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00869974.
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La science-fiction a, depuis ses origines, abordé les questions spirituelles telles que la mort, la transcendance, le sens de la vie et de la condition humaine. Au lieu de se définir comme une littérature d'idées fondée sur la science, elle est bien davantage une littérature d'images qui se fonde sur une " problématisation " de notre monde. Elle construit des configurations fictionnelles qui suscitent, chez le lecteur, un étonnement fondamental, le sense of wonder. Dès lors, elle envisage des problèmes essentiels, qu'ils soient biologiques, politiques, ou spirituels. Ouvrant à un espace-temps potentiellement infini, elle peut mettre en scène des quêtes à l'échelle du cosmos, ouvrir sur l'éternité et le temps du mythe, réinterpréter les grandes traditions religieuses pour les problématiser, ou dessiner un espace du sublime dans la confrontation avec le mystère. Il s'agit de définir la science-fiction comme un genre littéraire problématologique, qui s'appuie sur des récits et des images. Ce travail examine le traitement des questions spirituelles dans la science-fiction française, anglaise et américaine, depuis le XIXe siècle. Il se réfère à une dizaine de romans et trois films. En s'appuyant sur ce corpus spécifique de romans et de films, il s'attache à établir des cadres théoriques et à identifier des œuvres qui constituent des jalons dans l'histoire de la science-fiction et qui illustrent cette perspective problématologique.
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Alberts, Margaretha Elizabeth. "Spirituality and business leadership." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1803.
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Thesis (MPhil (Information Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.The theme for this study was inspired by an intuitive and cognitive awareness of, and concern for, the challenges and complexities faced by business leaders in the twentyfirst century. The shift from the industrial to the post-industrial era has brought about a new, complex network of activities globally. The increasing uncertainties and divides that are facing the business world - as well as society in general - have led to the hypothesis that the old paradigms and the existing repertoire of leadership approaches to business are no longer effective. The shift to a networked society also demands a shift in the consciousness levels, virtues and values of business leaders. This view is built on the premise that, under certain conditions and in certain situations, business is an important driver of transformation in general. Business has the ability and the power to influence the whole, i.e. societies, communities, environments, etcetera. The assumption is that business per se could be an important catalyst of change in society, and that business leaders are certainly accountable for the co-creation of a sustainable and meaningful environment. Business’ role is now often understood as serving the whole, i.e. accepting some responsibility for all or most processes in which the business may be involved. Business leaders’ values and worldviews are perceived as sometimes directly influencing their decision-making processes, and the argument, therefore, is that a new consciousness or a values-based, holistic approach to business and society – i.e. spirituality – could be an enabler in creating meaning that can incorporate these dimensions. The awareness of the challenges for business leadership was enhanced by a statement made by Manual Castells (1998:368) that, in the Information Age, there is “an anxious search for meaning and spirituality”. This study particularly addresses the personal, transpersonal and organisational transformations that are influencing our ability to make sense and to create meaning in the context of post-industrial business. The theme of sense-making in organisations has been influenced by the theories of Karel Weick in particular. The hypothesis is that mental intelligence alone is no longer sufficient for the interpretation of the postindustrial landscape, and it argues the importance of business leaders’ developing spiritual intelligence and a new spiritual awareness as a probable enhancer of transformation and sustainability. The spirituality that is needed provides a holistic, values-based approach and the consequent capacity to deal with complexity and change that was lacking in previous management frameworks. The theories on spirituality and spiritual intelligence are based on the principles of quantum physics, or the “new science” as described by physicists such as Heisenberg, Bohm, Capra, Kaku and others. A comparison between the Newtonian approach and the quantum approach underpins the argument. The views of specifically Zohar and Marshall were used to substantiate this argument. The principles of spirituality and spiritual intelligence are juxtaposed against the leadership theories of specifically three contemporary authors, i.e. Robert Terry, Jim Collins as well as Richard Barrett. These three authors respectively and collectively argue in favour of the evolvement of a new holistic consciousness and of authenticity in servant leadership. The assumption is that these leadership qualities could enhance interdependency and may lead to sustainability. Spirituality and business leadership is therefore explored as a probable enabler of a process of transformation in people, in organisations and in society, as well as a possible catalyst for creating meaning, fulfilment and sustainability. The line of thought in this study is that people, as an integral part of the universe, are being challenged to change not only themselves, but by virtue of a raised intelligence and holistic consciousness called spirituality, also change the world (organisation) in which they behave, through their leadership conduct. This requires leaders to aspire to a better understanding and interpretation of a new world, and to reflect on the organisation and themselves from more dimensions than purely the cognitive. This study argues that this could include a consciousness that is referred to as spirituality and spiritual intelligence.
Books on the topic "Science and spiritualism"
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Nanda, J. N. Science and spirituality: An autobiography. New Delhi: Logos Press, 2013.
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V, Krishnamurthy. Science and spirituality: A Vedanta perception. Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2002.
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Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture., ed. Science and spirituality: A quantum integration. New Delhi: Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture, 2000.
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Currivan, Jude. The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation. Rochester, Vermont USA: Inner Traditions International, Limited, 2017.
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Network, Mind Science. The Mind Science journal. Mill Valley, Calif: Mind Science Network, 1986.
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Scarpelli, Giacomo. Il cranio di cristallo: Evoluzione della specie e spiritualismo. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1993.
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Steiner, Rudolf. Science: An introductory reader. [London]: Sophia Books, 2003.
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Tart, Charles T. The end of materialism: How evidence of the paranormal is bringing science and spirit together. Oakland, Calif: Noetic Books, Institute of Noetic Sciences, 2009.
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Willis, Connie. Inside job. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2005.
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Schwartz, Gary E. The sacred promise: How science is discovering spirit's collaboration with us in our daily lives. New York: Atria Books, 2011.
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Themistocleous, Demetra, and Xenia Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous. "Spiritualism." In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1–2. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1080-1.
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Themistocleous, Demetra, and Xenia Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous. "Spiritualism." In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 7889–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_1080.
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Tyrrell, G. N. M. "Psychical Research and Spiritualism." In Science and Psychical Phenomena, 337–43. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003290926-28.
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Kontou, Tatiana. "The Other World Illuminated: Wiring Science, Text and Spirit in Victoria Glendinning’s Electricity." In Spiritualism and Women's Writing, 147–71. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230240797_6.
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Corcoran, Miranda. "Science and the Supernatural: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and Pseudo-Science in the Nineteenth Century." In The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic, 509–26. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4_27.
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Coon, Deborah J. "Testing the limits of sense and science: American experimental psychologists combat spiritualism, 1880-1920." In Evolving perspectives on the history of psychology., 121–39. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/10421-007.
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Rao, K. Ramakrishna. "Science and spirituality." In New Perspectives in Indian Science and Civilization, 10–31. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge India, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429244148-2.
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Knight, David. "High-church science." In Science and Spirituality, 74–91. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003416593-6.
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Walach, Harald. "Spirituality, Taboo, and Opportunity for Science." In Secular Spirituality, 69–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09345-1_4.
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Peltonen, Tuomo. "Science, Religion and Spirituality." In Spirituality and Religion in Organizing, 33–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56312-1_3.
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Salahuddin, Rahmad. "Science and Islamic Spirituality." In 1st International Conference on Intellectuals' Global Responsibility (ICIGR 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icigr-17.2018.48.
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Hornung, Severin, and Thomas Höge. "Exploring Mind and Soul of Social Character: Dialectic Psychodynamics of Economism and Humanism in Society, Organizations, and Individuals." In 7th International Conference on Spirituality and Psychology. Tomorrow People Organization, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52987/icsp.2022.003.
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Abstract Building on and extending previous theorizing, this contribution draws on the critique of neoliberal ideology in conjunction with radical humanism to deconstruct the ambivalent normative foundations of applied psychology and related fields of social science. Presented is a systemically embedded and integrated dialectic and dynamic model of ideological undercurrents shaping the political-economic, social-institutional, and psychodynamic structures of society, organizations, and individuals. Integrating dialectic antipodes of genuine ideas versus interest-guided ideology with social character theory, neoliberal economistic doctrines and antithetical humanist philosophical concepts are contrasted as opposing political, social, and psychological or “fantasmatic” logics. Based on psychoanalytic theory, neoliberal fantasies of success, superiority, and submission are derived from these and positioned against humanist consciousness of evolution, equality, and empowerment. This normative fabric of advanced capitalist societies is interpreted with reference to the conference theme as the mind and soul of social character. Economistic psychodynamics are linked to social alienation, humanist antipodes to psychological fulfilment. Personal meaning is introduced as a meta-dimension of existential alienation, respectively, wellbeing. Stressing the fundamental unity of insights regarding external and internal realities, complementarity of denaturalization and critique of societal ideologies with critical self-reflection and personal development is recommended. In this sense, the presented analysis aspires to contribute to clearing the mind and strengthening the soul by cultivating radical humanist philosophy versus neoliberal economistic rationality. KEYWORDS: Neoliberal ideology, radical humanism, dialectic analysis, psychodynamics, social critique, ethical issues
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Hoeg, Darren. "Eco-Spirituality in Science Education: Contradictions in Intent and Practice." In 2019 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1441279.
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Vieira, Marcella Beghini Mendes, and Vilson Leonel. "Relation between spirituality/ religiosity and quality of life in the members of the university pastoral project in Tubarão- SC." In XIII Congresso Paulista de Neurologia. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1516-3180.353.
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Introduction: It is a growing theme, full of meaning and subjectivism, which increasingly demonstrates an important relationship with the quality of life and with various adaptive functions of the human being, including spirituality as a source of strength and resistance and greater resilience in the face of problems. health or difficult situations. For a broader understanding, it is essential to differentiate between spirituality and religiosity. Spirituality is a personal search for answers to existential questions, whereas religiosity encompasses a relationship, also personal, with God based on the rituals of a religion. Methods: The present work had a total of fifty members of the extension group Pastoral Universitaria linked to Unisul – Tubarão, which includes academics, university employees and members of the local community, religious or not. Results: the results showed a statistically significant difference between the total value of the spirituality questionnaire and the quality of life questionnaire (p= 0,0076), but there was no relationship between these values and the sociodemographic data. It can be seen, therefore, that higher levels of spirituality are closely related to better quality of life rates, when assessed through subjective scales. Conclusion: Therefore, it is possible to observe a strong correlation between spirituality and quality of life in the existing literature, which is no different in this research, therefore, the same alert about the importance of discussing the topic. Bringing it to the fore is a way of bringing faith and science together, fostering studies and increasing one’s interest in life.
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Akhmetova, A. I., N. B. Kamiyeva, M. Turymbetova, and M. N. Yermagambetova. "Analysis of the problem of the emergence of spiritual crisis in individual and social consciousness manifested in the loss of ideals and meaning of life." In Challenges of Science. Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31643/2022.04.
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In order to get a person out of the state of deep spiritual crisis in all spheres of life, it is necessary for him to realize spirituality as a necessary condition for both successful development and for the preservation of humanity. The affirmation of universal human values in consciousness and behavior of a person is the basis of his/her spiritual health and moral well-being, aspiration for creative creation. However, the whole complexity of the modern situation is that spirituality in a person's worldview, in the system of life priorities, is of secondary importance. This is due to the domination of the technocratic way of thinking of the person who replaced moral feelings and prefers only materialistic values.
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Ashfaq, Muhammad, and Sobia Irum. "Workplace Spirituality and Sustainable Performance." In 2021 International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Application (DASA). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/dasa53625.2021.9682374.
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Malinowska-Petelenz, Beata. "Contemporary European spirituality: new forms of sacred spaces." In Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8073.
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The 20th century witnessed changes which altered radically the world hitherto functioning in the same way for centuries. The pluralist global culture is characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeability involving continuous challenging of traditional values. Architecture is no exception to this rule, including religious architecture, which best reflects the spirituality of its time. Revaluation which took place in the last century resulted in the need of a new interpretation of the concepts of the sacred and the profane, as they have lost their clarity and significance. In consequence of the conflict between the dogmatic understanding of stability on the one hand and the modern culture, science, thought and world interpretation as well as the pace and style of living on the other, the need has emerged to build new places of cult that embrace the Zeitgeist of today – stripped of almost all ideology, visually modest, devoid in their décor of intense expression or a large number of stimuli. There are also temples which invite into the same space people of different religions as well as people who are seeking faith or are doubtful, places focused on catering for spiritual or contemplation needs, but also offering intellectual rest.
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Nikolova, Antoaneta. "Far Eastern spirituality in Europe." In 3rd International e-Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. Center for Open Access in Science, Belgrade, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.32591/coas.e-conf.03.23241n.
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Božić, Jadranka. "Antropologija obrazovanja u digitalnom dobu." In Nauka i obrazovanje – izazovi i perspektive. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Edaucatin in Uzice, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/noip.029b.
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The text considers the anthropological consequences of living in the digital, postmodern age and their effects on the education system and culture. In accordance with an immeasurable role of art education in personality development, we speak of art as the highest expression of human creativity. The contemporary, dominantly technical, development of science, being detached from culture, has an important influence on both school and university education. We point to transdisciplinarity as a possibility for integrative research, reconciliation of science(s), arts and spirituality, with the aim of incarnating human beings. The unfavorable impact of the information abundance in which the generation of “digital natives” is growing up is reflected in the increasingly dangerous disproportion between technological and anthropological potentials.
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Mirea, Ruxandra. "Spirituality through Transculturality in Harry Tavitian�s Creation." In The 2nd Virtual International Conference on the Dialogue between Science and Theology. EDIS - Publishing Institution of the University of Zilina, Slovak Republic, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18638/dialogo.2015.2.1.3.
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Murray, Chris, Keith Williams, Norrie Millar, Monty Nero, Amy O'Brien, and Damon Herd. A New Palingenesis. University of Dundee, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001273.
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Robert Duncan Milne (1844-99), from Cupar, Fife, was a pioneering author of science fiction stories, most of which appeared in San Francisco’s Argonaut magazine in the 1880s and ’90s. SF historian Sam Moskowitz credits Milne with being the first full-time SF writer, and his contribution to the genre is arguably greater than anyone else including Stevenson and Conan Doyle, yet it has all but disappeared into oblivion. Milne was fascinated by science. He drew on the work of Scottish physicists and inventors such as James Clark Maxwell and Alexander Graham Bell into the possibilities of electromagnetic forces and new communications media to overcome distances in space and time. Milne wrote about visual time-travelling long before H.G. Wells. He foresaw virtual ‘tele-presencing’, remote surveillance, mobile phones and worldwide satellite communications – not to mention climate change, scientific terrorism and drone warfare, cryogenics and molecular reengineering. Milne also wrote on alien life forms, artificial immortality, identity theft and personality exchange, lost worlds and the rediscovery of extinct species. ‘A New Palingenesis’, originally published in The Argonaut on July 7th 1883, and adapted in this comic, is a secular version of the resurrection myth. Mary Shelley was the first scientiser of the occult to rework the supernatural idea of reanimating the dead through the mysterious powers of electricity in Frankenstein (1818). In Milne’s story, in which Doctor S- dissolves his terminally ill wife’s body in order to bring her back to life in restored health, is a striking, further modernisation of Frankenstein, to reflect late-nineteenth century interest in electromagnetic science and spiritualism. In particular, it is a retelling of Shelley’s narrative strand about Frankenstein’s aborted attempt to shape a female mate for his creature, but also his misogynistic ambition to bypass the sexual principle in reproducing life altogether. By doing so, Milne interfused Shelley’s updating of the Promethean myth with others. ‘A New Palingenesis’ is also a version of Pygmalion and his male-ordered, wish-fulfilling desire to animate his idealised female sculpture, Galatea from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, perhaps giving a positive twist to Orpheus’s attempt to bring his corpse-bride Eurydice back from the underworld as well? With its basis in spiritualist ideas about the soul as a kind of electrical intelligence, detachable from the body but a material entity nonetheless, Doctor S- treats his wife as an ‘intelligent battery’. He is thus able to preserve her personality after death and renew her body simultaneously because that captured electrical intelligence also carries a DNA-like code for rebuilding the individual organism itself from its chemical constituents. The descriptions of the experiment and the body’s gradual re-materialisation are among Milne’s most visually impressive, anticipating the X-raylike anatomisation and reversal of Griffin’s disappearance process in Wells’s The Invisible Man (1897). In the context of the 1880s, it must have been a compelling scientisation of the paranormal, combining highly technical descriptions of the Doctor’s system of electrically linked glass coffins with ghostly imagery. It is both dramatic and highly visual, even cinematic in its descriptions, and is here brought to life in the form of a comic.
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Rancans, Elmars, Jelena Vrublevska, Ilana Aleskere, Baiba Rezgale, and Anna Sibalova. Mental health and associated factors in the general population of Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rīga Stradiņš University, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25143/fk2/0mqsi9.
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Description The goal of the study was to assess mental health, socio-psychological and behavioural aspects in the representative sample of Latvian general population in online survey, and to identify vulnerable groups during COVID-19 pandemic and develop future recommendations. The study was carried out from 6 to 27 July 2020 and was attributable to the period of emergency state from 11 March to 10 June 2020. The protocol included demographic data and also data pertaining to general health, previous self-reported psychiatric history, symptoms of anxiety, clinically significant depression and suicidality, as well as a quality of sleep, sex, family relationships, finance, eating and exercising and religion/spirituality, and their changes during the pandemic. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale was used to determine the presence of distress or depression, the Risk Assessment of Suicidality Scale was used to assess suicidal behaviour, current symptoms of anxiety were assessed by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory form Y. (2021-02-04) Subject Medicine, Health and Life Sciences Keyword: COVID19, pandemic, depression, anxiety, suicidality, mental health, Latvia