Reviews Simile in the Ruh-alarvah of Shahaboddin Ahmad Samaani with emphasis on the vehicle by hamid rezaie, محمد رضایی, منیره مسیبی

“…Since, vehicle of the elements of simile has most roles in expressing the author's worldview, this paper with an emphasis on this element is paid to analyze the similes in Ruh-alarvah and has determined that Samaani is considered the use of reasonable to sensible simile and using natural elements as vehicle as the best practices in mystical concepts and explaining mystic moods and circumstances and his officials. …”
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Dieu ou les hommes ? Vivre l’obéissance dans les couvents anglais en exil (1598-1688) by Laurence LUX-STERRITT

“…This mystically-inspired spirituality met with the censorship of the nuns’ superiors, who condemned it as rebellious, anti-authoritarian, and as a sure way to lead the religious to damnation.…”
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Awe and respect in the Psalms by K. Waaijman

“… This essay discusses the motif of awe in the Psalms in terms of Buber’s outline of mystical awe. In a first section, awe as the beginning of wisdom is analysed, followed by a discussion of the experience of Be-er’s1 (Yahweh’s) goodness. …”
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Rate Dependent Multicontinuum Progressive Failure Analysis of Woven Fabric Composite Structures under Dynamic Impact by James Lua, Christopher T. Key, Shane C. Schumacher, Andrew C. Hansen

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Definicja piękna w XII wieku a architektoniczna ekspozycja ołtarza w epoce gotyckiej by Mirosław Bogdan

“… This article, while taking into account the mystical reality of a relic, defines gothic initiated by the abbot Surger with the construction of the first gothic basilica in Saint-Denis near Paris in the XII century, as a reality required to know the difference between individual invisible beauty and corporeal visible beauty. …”
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Faith and Protest by Leila Hassim

“…The thirteenth century French manuscript is a mystical treatise by Marguerite Porete who was burned at the stake for her ideas of faith, and the current issue of faith in South Africa is the charismatic movement currently flourishing on the South African landscape. …”
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A hora e o lugar das Ordens Sufis na tradição islâmica by Mateus Soares de Azevedo

“…What are its main practices? Is it a mystical strand of Islam for a few, or a way open to many? …”
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Analysis of the Equation Style in Salek Qazvini's Sonnets by Sara Nezamdoost, Mohammad Amir Mashhadhi, Mohammad Ali Mahmoodi

“…The findings indicates that the most frequent meanings within the equation style in Salek Qazvini's sonnets are mystical, moral-pedagogical romantic and social themes as well as poet's complaints and literary sublimity. …”
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The tree of life: symbol of center by Azadeh pashootanizadeh

“…It is interesting to conceive of a metaphysical and mystical idea by artists of nations, styles, and times. …”
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La panthère des monts Mandara, de l’effroi à l’oubli by Christian Seignobos

“…Their disappearance gave way to “mystical” panthers, created by sorcerers, and their image is already beginning to fade in these very fabliaux.…”
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La ecología cósmica de Ernesto Cardenal by Edgar Romero

“…The current ecological crisis could’nt be absent from his Cántico cósmico (1989), a long poem that dwells on the ecological problems’ very high human cost caused by the capitalist mode of production and whose ecosystemic approach expands and finally connects with the other great theme of Cardenal’s poetry: the search for a mystical communion with the others as well as with the cosmos.…”
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‘Wisdom is a gift given to the Wise’: Florence Farr (1860–1917): New Woman, Actress and Pagan Priestess by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…According to Caroline Wise, who wrote her Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies entry, in Florence Farr: ‘[t]he mystical, the philosophical and the political wove a seamless whole in an active, questing and pioneering life’. …”
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The eschatology of 1 Thessalonians in the light of its spirituality by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…The article concludes with a discussion of the mystical nature of eschatology and the specific pronouncements about the future transformation of believers. …”
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Posoborowa instytucjonalna odnowa Kościoła krakowskiego według kardynała Karola Wojtyły by Jan Dyduch

“…The renewal was deeply rooted in the theology of the Second Vatican Council, especially in its teaching on the Church, presented by the Council as a community of the People of God, and the Mystical Body of Christ. To achieve accurate reception of the teaching of the Council, card. …”
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Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision of Science, Religion and Planetary Humanity: A Challenge to the Contemporary World by Ursula King

“… Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a great thinker, scientist, and mystic – he was above all an extraordinary human being whose inspiring vision still remains far too little known. …”
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The spiritual mentality profile of female pietists on the South African frontier, 1750-1860 by A. W. G. Raath

“…Such a  reconstruction of the religious mentality profile of pietistic women on the frontier reveals a number of important aspects for understanding their spiritual life: self-awakenings and conversions; self-purification; self-illumination and mystically tainted experiences; recollection and the experience of quiet; meditation, contemplation, ecstasy and rapture; spiritual desertion, and abandonment of the soul and the unitive life with God in Christ. …”
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Święty Jan z Ávili doktorem Kościoła by Wojciech Zyzak

“…He also presents the most important ideas of his teaching: Christology, the concept of the Church, the cardinal virtues, especially the faith, the theory of prayer, asceticism, mystic and the development of spiritual life. He also shows John of Ávila as an expert in priestly spirituality.…”
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Articulating Cognitive Schemas and Metaphors of Motion in the Poem Mosafer of Sohrab Sepehri by Zohreh Niksiyar

“…The results indicate that the symbolic and mystical poem "mosafer" is full of abstract themes and is a general schema of the concept of travel. …”
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Alterität: Zur Entwicklung einer Denkfigur bei Alfred Döblin by Christine Maillard

“…Through an examination of Döblin’s philosophical work, “Unser Dasein” (1933), and the religious dialogue “Der unsterbliche Mensch” (1946), this paper will show that the figure of the Other is central to Döblin’s thinking in its psychological, ethical, and mystical dimensions, and is constitutive of his modernity.…”
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Performing the Spirit: Theatre, the Occult, and the Ceremony of Isis by Dennis Denisoff

“…Looking at two distinctly different approaches to the occult and performance, this article demonstrates that a range of late-Victorians turned to theatrical performance as an avenue to mystical communication. The editors of Borderland: A Psychical Quarterly, W. …”
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