Disability and Human Diversity: A Reinterpretation of Ẹni-òòṣà1 Philosophy in Yorùbá Belief by Omotade Adegbindin

“…Consequently, it questions the assumptions associated with the recognition of the dichotomy between “normality” and “abnormality” and confronts the mystical and/or mythographic representation of ẹni-òòṣà or persons with disabilities with a view to offering new insights into how persons with disabilities ought to be conceptualized in order to promote their inherent human dignity. …”
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WE INTER-ARE: THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGE REDEFINING HUMANS AND COMMUNITIES by K. Abraham

“…In this context, ecofeminist reconstruction of relationality is projected as a corrective, as it focuses on linking relationships instead of ranking relationships. In addition, the mystical notion “We Inter-Are”, shared by the visionary Buddhist sage Thich Nhat Hanh, is proposed as a key for growing into a consciousness of inter-relationality with other beings on this planet, as it opens us to the infinite mystery of the deeper relatedness of all forms of life. …”
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La Tentation de Saint-Antoine au Chat Noir : un exemple de collaboration multidisciplinaire by Michela Niccolai

“…Among the adaptations of La Tentation de saint Antoine de Flaubert, the one made by Henri Rivière deserves special attention. « Féerie à grand spectacle en 2 actes et 40 tableaux », La Tentation for the shadow theatre (1887) is a composite show that blended the visual component with the music (original and arranged by Albert Tinchant and Georges Fragerolle) inside a fixed device where the evocative appearance of the paintings carried the viewer into a mystical universe. The music plays a central role because, in the absence of a text, it must be narrated, so that known tunes, drawn from operas, operettas and café-concert, often used with a parodic sense, alternate with original music composed by Tinchant and Fragerolle. …”
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Indianisation et dépolitisation des victimes de la guerre au Pérou. L’exemple du mémorial L’Œil-qui-pleure by Dorothée Delacroix

“…The social and political effects in post-CVR Peru of this staging of ethnicity based on a mystical cosmology are also discussed.…”
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Ethnogenèse du New Age andin : à la recherche de l’Inca global by Antoinette Molinié

“…In Peru, we witness the emergence of an original culture that takes its roots from two matrices: the Andean culture that results from a fusion of the pre-Hispanic culture with Christianism, and the New Age movement that has been introduced with mystic tourism. The fusion of these two strands gives rise to ritual creations that we describe and analyze. …”
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Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…The obscure spiritual experience thus pursued is that of an absolute in art, the paradoxical experience of a “mystic who believes in nothing” (as Flaubert called himself), which the critic links to a questioning of his own conversion.…”
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Discernment - the compass on the high sea of spirituality by Kees Waaijman

“…It first describes the complexity of spirituality as a phenomenon that has, on a cultural, anthropological and mystical level, lost its boundaries and expanded beyond all existing horizons. …”
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Proverbs in Yorùbá Contemporary Songs by Oluwafunminiyi Mabawonku

“…This study reveals that the use of proverbs as indigenous tattoos has elevated both the language of the song artists to the status of living art of popular communication and their personalities to that of a mystic ‘massieur’ as there is the need to localize the global issues and globalized the local ones. …”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…Experiences combining pleasure and suffering, the mystic union with the snake, the “baisade”, contribute to her sentimental education, but the final disappointment—the failure of desire—is the true revelation.…”
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The Experience of Trinitarian Compassion According to St. Francis of Assisi by Krzysztof Juzba

“…True love is the fruit of the act of giving. Francis` mystical experience of God in Three Person lead him to his own inter-trinitarian love. …”
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Volcanic disaster mitigation based on local wisdom: A case study from a local community in the Mount Galunggung, Indonesia by Mutolib Abdul, Rahmat Ali, Harefa Darmawan, Nugraha Satriya, Handoko Lukman, Sululing Siswadi, Laxmi, Nurhayati Siti

“…Disaster mitigation efforts based on local wisdom in Mount Galunggung include: 1) the use of the kentongan (a traditional wooden alarm instrument), 2) local knowledge of natural disaster signs, and 43) mystical beliefs associated with Mount Galunggung. …”
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From occupation to independence: contemporary East Timorese history and identity in Portuguese picturebooks by Ana Margarida Ramos

“…The text and images are combined in order to promote symbolic readings, suggesting a magical/mystical environment that impresses readers. More than a decade later, recent struggles and stories from East Timor are still present in Portuguese picturebooks such as Lya/Lia (2014), by Margarida Botelho. …”
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الشيخ محمد بن عمر نووي الجاوي: حياته الذاتية والعلمية by Ehsan Ur Rehman, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Khan

“… Sheikh Muhammad bin Umaranawi al-Jawi (Banteni), a scholar and mystic. His title "Nawawi" is said to be derived from one of the famous scholars. …”
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Stosunek religii do nauki. Punkt widzenia prawosławnego by Henryk Paprocki

“…The Earth was treated as a mystical centre of the universe because of the Incarnation of Christ, which did not mean that it was also the real centre of the empirical universe. …”
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A HISTORY OF THE AGILA IN ADO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE by OCHOGA EDWIN OCHOGA, Imanah Sunday Omoafena

“…Thus, conclusion was reached that: Firstly, Agila is a product of the mystical efforts of both Ago and Osilagama and their descendants that have over the centuries made Agila unique culturally wise in Idomaland. …”
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Mia Couto and the enchantment of rain by Myrtle J. Hooper, Isabel B. Rawlins

“…Garuba specifically refers to the ‘persistent re-enchantment of the world’ whereby the ‘rational and scientific are appropriated and transformed into the mystical and magical’. This article explores the range of roles, agentic and enchanted, which Couto accords rain in his stories. …”
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