Liminalities and Displacements: The Rites of Passage to Self-Identification in Chicano Writings by Sophia Emmanouilidou

“…Rivera and Villanueva venture bold explorations of the self-regulatory rites to ethnic identity, and provide the readers with stunning insights into the liminal aspects of identity, as realized in the contexts of discrimination and social oppression, and en route to an esoteric understanding of life.…”
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Découverte d’une culture africaine et fantasmes d’un missionnaire. Le Dictionnaire français-kirundi du Père Van der Burgt (1903) entre ethnographie, exégèse biblique et orientalism... by Jean-Pierre Chrétien

“…Van der Burgt was even influenced by esoteric forms of orientalism, which drove his thoughts as far as India, Polynesia, or the revelations of the German mystic Catherine Emmerich. …”
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Feu le régime d’accumulation tiré par la finance by Robert Boyer

“…It is the direct consequence of the anti-division of labour within the financial sector that has permanently externalized and underestimated the risk by hiding it into more and more complex and esoteric products. This lost informational content of financial pricing leads to the freeze of credit first within financial institutions and then households and ultimately firms. …”
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The public reception of the Research Assessment Exercise 1996. by Julian Warner

“…A model for diffusion of the RAE is established which distinguishes extra-communal (or exoteric) from intra-communal (or esoteric) media. The different characteristics of each medium and the changing nature of the discussion over time are considered. …”
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As Spirits Speak: Interaction in Wauja Exoteric Ritual by Christopher Ball

“…In view of the gravity of the circumstance and the weight of the obligation it creates, the ritual interaction is a surprisingly inelaborate and quotidian counterpart to Wauja esoteric shamanic practice and elaborate collective rituals involving music and dance. …”
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An Expansive View of the Influence of Khidr’s Divine Knowledge for Humanity by Madison Bohacek

“…The distinction between the exoteric knowledge represented by Moses (Law) and the esoteric knowledge represented by Khidr (divine instruction) highlights both the limitations in human access to knowledge but also human potential. …”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…The warriors are spectators of the characteristic “hero” epiphany clearly expressed by the lyric singing and the esoteric dance.  After meeting, Salammbô and Mâtho, both prey to amorous desire, seek each other, avoid each other and dream of each other.  …”
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Sacraliser le territoire américain : Mount Shasta, quand les dieux viennent instruire les humains by Bernadette Rigal-Cellard

“…Ballard belongs to the old esoteric tradition that Helena Petrovna Blavatsky would popularize at about the same time Oliver’s book was written. …”
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The Influence of Lunar Phases on Complications in Cataract Surgery: An Analysis of 16,965 Patients by Eva-Maria Faschinger, Pia Veronika Vécsei-Marlovits, Dieter Franz Rabensteiner, Birgit Weingessel

“…Our results revealed more complications when the moon was waning, which is in contrast to esoteric belief. Patients may be informed that phases of the moon, signs of the zodiac, or a particular date will have no impact on their surgeries.…”
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Penser le Cthulhucène et son géotraumatisme : le cas Cyclonopedia de Reza Negarestani by Fabien Richert

“…Negarestani’s work presents oil as the real subject of history, humanity as its host, the industrial revolution as its point of no return. The esoteric allure and sophistication of the argument, set against a backdrop of conspiracy theories, draws the reader into a paranoid delusion marked by a conspiracy fomented on a quasi-cosmic scale: the burning of oil, seen as a fundamental step in its own “satanic agenda”, is the key moment from which it can spread into the atmosphere. …”
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ATTAINING THE AUTHENTICITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE REVEALED TRUTH COMPREHENSIVELY FROM AL-ZAMAKHSHARI'S PERSPECTIVE by Jarman Arroisi, Martin Putra Perdana, Adi Ihza Baharudin

“…He asserts that reason is an essential tool for comprehending Revelation and attaining truth: to comprehend the literal and deeper esoteric meaning of the Qur'anic verses and to employ it in interpreting the Qur'an. …”
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Theoretical Sufism and Sharia regulations by Halilović Seid

“…If we approach the analysis of Sharia regulations in their esoteric layers with a grounded mystical methodology, we will understand that the original mystical teachings of Islam are hidden in the Sharia itself and at the heart of the Sharia rituals in which the Muslim affirms his ontological need to repentantly obey and serve the absolute being of God.…”
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GENETIC DETERMINATIONS OF MENTALITY by L. V. Osadcha

“…The concept of mentality has been widely studied in various fields of socio-humanities such as: history, psychology, and even marginal context of scientific discourses, including the esoteric. This study attempted to analyse the mentality phenomenon through the prism of the concept of experience. …”
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Percival Lowell as a researcher of Japanese culture by D.E. Martynov, Yu.A. Martynova, R.R. Mukhametzanov

“…He pioneered in the research on the mental characteristics of traditional cultures in field conditions by focusing on esoteric (trance-like) rituals. P. Lowell raised questions of personal identity in the society dominated by archaic forms of living and concluded that it is influenced greatly by external mechanisms, mostly family, suppressing individuality. …”
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Peddling Wonderment, Selling Privilege: Launching the Market for Medieval Books in Antebellum New York by Scott Gwara

“…He emphasized the materiality of manuscripts, their possession by fanatic monks, their esoteric rarity, and the possibility of owning the lifetime work of a sensitive, if unschooled, artist. …”
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Astrology as Sacred Ecological Knowledge in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition by Yulia Yu. Erendzhenova

“…Those ideas are based on some esoteric premises of the Buddhist Kalachakra Tantra which articulates the relationship between external natural cycles and internal human energy ones, as well as suggests methods of restoring the latter’s balance. …”
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Some Lexical Uses from Divân of Kâtebi of Neyshâbur by Mohammad Shadrooymanesh, Sara Ghaffari Cherati

“…All in all, he is an esoteric and eloquent poet. In an age when good imitation was considered one of the foremost poetic features, his poetry is characterized by close attention to less familiar words and phrases to discover and introduce new and difficult meanings as well as the use of different tropes such as puns, repetitions, alliteration, metonymy, metaphors and conceits, along with imitating and responding to earlier poetry. …”
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Eschatologie alchimique chez jâbir ibn Hayyân by Pierre Lory

“…According to this text, the collective salvation of mankind from the prison of ignorance will happen with the help of the spreading of esoterical sciences. At the end of times, a messianic divine and human person called the Bayân will manifest the hidden dimensions of being and fulfill the destiny of the whole of mankind.…”
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