Prestige de la hache et haches de prestige by Mélisande Bizoirre

“…It also examines the function of the arms, sometimes associated with mystic connotations, but most often symbols of power.…”
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Pluie, vapeur et vitesse chez Turner by Muriel Adrien

“…The phrase « Rain, Steam and Speed » is also reminiscent of his programme of painting or « visuality » : his rain and steam are redolent of the mystical apophatic clouds, where spareness and asceticism are the sole means of access to the blaze of representation.…”
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The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 28 June 1914 by Meryem, Günaydın

“…In Serbia, the secret organization “Black Hand” engaged in activities for the unity of Serbs; together with Gavrilo Princip and Nedjelko Cabrinovic, Trifko Grabez, Muhamed Mehmedbasic, Vaso Cubriloviç , Cvijetko Popoviç had a mystical trip to the assassination plot. The background of the assassination in Sarajevo, causes and consequences of the assassination will be discussed in this study.…”
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PSYCHEDELICS: CLINICAL EVIDENCE AND THERAPEUTIC MECHANISMS IN PSYCHIATRY by JANI KAJANOJA, OSKARI KANTONEN, JUUSO KÄHÖNEN

“…A key feature of psychedelics is their ability to reliably induce an altered experiential state, which is often described as mystical-like, self-transcending and meaningful, while also often experienced as challenging and anxietyprovoking. …”
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Entre air et terre : les éléments dans Aurora Leigh d’Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Marianne Camus

“…She then examines and redefines the relationships between these two elements in life and in poetry and finally reaches a mystical union anchored in the body.…”
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Modlitwa i gestyka religijna w poezji Jesienina by Jerzy Szokalski

“…The author stresses the autonomy of the Orthodox Church as a way of perceiving the world and the mystical communion with it. This communication takes place primarily at the level of language, and particularly at the level of body language and the gestures of the language that could (although, as emphasized, not always) express the certain intentions and feelings of a religious entity as well as quasi-ritual or ceremonial speech acts: invocations, prayers, veneration, etc., but seen in some isolation from their religious functions.…”
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The Christology of Origen by John C. Solheid

“…I will also address what I regard as one of Origen’s signature contributions to Christology, a contribution that has not yet received adequate attention, namely his understanding of the mystical body of Christ into which we enter at Baptism.…”
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« Une splendide anomalie ? », le Pilgrim’s Progress de Ralph Vaughan Williams by Gilles Couderc

“…While the composer was conscious of the atypicality of his “operatic morality” it is indeed surprising to see an avowed agnostic composer spend forty years of his life on a work that dismisses the conventions of traditional opera and endeavours to portray mystical experience on stage and to renew with the sense of rite and ritual, part and parcel of the genre as Wagner’s subtitle for his Parsifal, “a sacred scenic festival”, reminds us.…”
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Représentations du temps et de l’espace en science-fiction : du roman à l’écran by Orlane Glises de la Rivière

“…The books deal with the presence of an alien intelligences to which humans are confronted: they don’t understand who or what it is. Tarkovski offers a mystical and spiritual vision in his movies. We will analyze the spatial cinematographic dimension in his films, which complete the literary spatiality. …”
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Fin du Temps et Retour à l'Origine (Aspects de Vimamologie duodécimaine VI) by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

“…The examination of these relations seems to show, as some philosophical and mystical exegesis have underlined, that the Twelver Shiite vision of the world rests, like other initiatic traditions with mythical language, on the triptych of original purity, the invasion of evil and the final return to the origin.…”
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Phénoménologie de la baie des anges by Claude Montserrat-Cals

“…It is a Persian text from the 12th century which is taken as an indicator: The Wisdom of the Mystic East by Sohravardî. He develops an ontology on light which, at the same time of renewing Aristotle and Plotinus's double metaphysical heritage, gives its full meaning to the Greek etymology of “Nice” – Victory – , and to the “Angels” of the bay. …”
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American Lotus, Yellow Lotus: Nelumbo lutea by Warner Orozco-Obando, Lyn Gettys

“…Native American tribes treated the American lotus as a sacred plant with mystical powers, and many tribes ate the large rhizomes and used parts of the plant for medicinal purposes. …”
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From “religion” to “spirituality” in socialist Bulgaria: Vanga, Nicholas Roerich, and the mystique of history by Valtchinova Galia

“…The article delves into processes unfolding in Bulgaria in the 1970s, centring around two figures: Vanga, known as the seer of Petrič, and the mystic painter Nicholas Roerich, to demonstrate the changes in the structure and meaning of categories related to religion that occurred in the period of “mature socialism”. …”
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Les médiévistes et l’histoire des femmes et du genre : douze ans de recherche by Didier Lett, Camille Noûs

“…In turn, are mentioned, commented on and even criticised, studies on religion (life in monasteries, cultures of nuns, beguines and mystics, holiness, piety of secular women), masculinities, family (paternity, adelphic links...), couples in and out of marriage), sexualities (homosexuality, sexual violence, prostitution), justice, identities, emotions, economy and work, feminine power (queenship) and feminine cultures (literacy and aurality). …”
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Une « Laine d’Albâtre » : Quelques cas de surexposition dans la photographie américaine by Jean-Marc Victor

“…Originally considered a technical aberration, overexposure tends to mythify the American land (Timothy O’Sullivan), leading to forms of divinizing and mystical illumination in 19th century landscape photography. …”
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La Représentation de la montagne dans la littérature anglaise d’inspiration religieuse au XVIIe siècle by Jean-Louis Breteau

“…This is notoriously the case throughout the Bible in both the Ancient and the New Testaments, although some ambivalence can be identified in the symbolic value of the mountain which proves to be either a place of divine revelation or of spiritual contest. The Christian mystics down from Gregory of Nyssa to John of the Cross take this double dimension on board. …”
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American Lotus, Yellow Lotus: Nelumbo lutea by Warner Orozco-Obando, Lyn Gettys

“…Native American tribes treated the American lotus as a sacred plant with mystical powers, and many tribes ate the large rhizomes and used parts of the plant for medicinal purposes. …”
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Swinging between two poles. Henri Nouwen’s unique metaphor for spiritual transformation by G. Marchinkowski

“…This article considers the nature of transformation in the classic mystical tradition and touches on the contributions of perennial philosophy and transpersonal psychology which may have influenced Nouwen. …”
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Peace in the spirituality of Thomas á Kempis. An aesthetic perspective on the Imitatio Christi 4.25 by P.G.R. de Villiers

“…A second section analyses the interiorising of peace as the human response to the divine gift and, finally, examines the mystical quality of the chapter in its discussion about the heart of peace as resting in God. …”
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Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval Text by Katarzyna Stadnik

“…It uses the conceptions of situated conceptualisation and sociocultural situatedness to embed the work in the visual/material culture of the Middle Ages. It reveals how the mystic construes emotionally intense images, which underpin the abstract language of the text’s final chapters. …”
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