Cierpienie i radość w duchowości św. Urszuli Ledóchowskiej by Marcin Godawa

“…As a consequence the problem of suffering is revaluated in the spirit of supernatural love and next it determines a conception of penance and asceticism. …”
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A Mall Intercept Survey on Religion and Worldview in the Cape Flats of Cape Town, South Africa by Thomas J. Farrar, Khanyisane A. Falake, Adriel Mebaley, Mandisi D. Moya, Ivor I. Rudolph

“…Variables considered included demographic characteristics, measures of religiosity and religious pluralism, participation in religious activities, and supernaturalism (both related and unrelated to a traditional Christian-Abrahamic worldview). …”
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Activities of Teenagers involved in the Pinamou Tradition in Central Maluku by Nastain

“…The recommended thing is to use charcoal to cover the face as protection from supernatural beings. The provisions in the Pinamou tradition carried out by teenagers are believed to protect them from danger despite many restrictions on activities.…”
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Snake and staff symbolism and healing by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… Since time immemorial the snake has been venerated as an enigmatic creature with supernatural powers. As a snake and staff symbol it is also traditionally associated with the healing arts, either as the single-snake attribute of Asclepius, or as the doublesnake attribute of Hermes. …”
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Jesus' mission and messianism through the prism of Islam and Christianity: Analysis of the Book of prophet Zechariah by Gološ Dževad

“…The Quran proves its truthfulness, the fact that it is the last Revelation to Prophet Muhammed who was the last in a series of prophets, and its supernaturalism in a number of ways - through its language, style, stories about the past and the future, ethical and legal code, and other examples of the supernatural. …”
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Présentation d’une controverse : les Écritures face à la critique biblique au xixe siècle en Grande-Bretagne  by Frédéric Slaby

“…As the positivist and “liberal” critics privileged the use of reason in their approach, it comes as no surprise that the natural or human aspect should be taken into greater consideration by them than by the “orthodox” and “traditionalist” thinkers who privileged the use of faith and took into account the supernatural or divine aspect in their study of the Bible. …”
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Culhwch ac Olwen como texto de transición de la materia artúrica by Luciana Cordo Russo

“…On the one hand, Arthur is depicted in a heroic tone, that is, with a set of attributes that tend to characterise him in early Welsh poems, in which he appears as the leader of a band of warriors who fight supernatural creatures. On the other hand, Arthur is “chief of the princes of this island”, he possesses a renowned court, and jealously guards customs and values. …”
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BASIS ETIKA LINGKUNGAN HIDUP MASYARAKAT TRADISIONAL MADURA by Hasani Utsman

“…Based on the ethnographical approach, the moral view of Maduranese traditional society is obtained through participant observation and direct interaction, the results of this study revealed that Maduranese traditional society put forward two main principles in interacting to the nature, i.e. harmony and belief to the supernatural forces, which is led to the diversity of the land use typology and nature’s rituals. …”
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Ghostly (re)visions: Embodying the Indian Caribbean churile by Christopher L. Ballengee

“…She is a ‘jumbie’ in limbo between the natural and supernatural realms. This article traces the migration of churile folklore from South Asia to the Caribbean and examines its relevance in Indian Caribbean culture today. …”
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La nocturnité au quotidien chez les Indiens tseltal du Chiapas (Mexique) by Aurore Monod Becquelin, Marie Chosson

“…This analysis invites us to scrutinise the Tseltal night from the perspective of its role as an agent of behaviours, thoughts, attitudes, and corporeal habits among these natives of the Mexican Highlands.As the home of sleep, night enables the dreamer to mix with supernatural beings, making accessible and visible a dynamic cosmos in which plants, animals, humans and nonhumans interact. …”
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Ritual objects for the feast of sukkot: Theoretical analysis of the Talmudic prescriptions and some of their ethnographical achievements in the Balkans by Vartejanu-Joubert Madalina

“…As we shall see, the making of the ritual object according to specific rules shows us its place in the encounter with the supernatural, the goal towards which any ritual device aspires. …”
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Le corps du Prophète by Denis Gril

“…This body gifted with supernatural powers, depicted ingreat detail, symbolises the perfection of this human being. …”
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Les rituels : des espaces de marge pour construire sa place by Françoise Hatchuel

“…A synthesis of different rituals is first presented, demonstrating how they commonly allow one to connect oneself (to other people in the case of rites of interaction, to another version of oneself in the case of rites of passage, or to another supernatural world in the case of religious rites). They also commonly encompass a performative dimension. …”
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Entre o Butsudan e a missa: práticas religiosas de imigrantes japoneses no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil by Tomoko Kimura Gaudioso, André Luis Ramos Soares

“…The absence of an official religion on Japan does not make the immigrants less religious but with another perception of religiosity, based on the connection between people and their home villages and to the land, in their physical-geographic and supernatural conceptions.…”
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Christianity and medical science: A historical quest for remedy in time of epidemics by V.U. Iheanacho

“…In most instances, they do so either through faith or reason (science) alone, or through a combination of both. Supernatural powers are invoked through prayers and entreaties to assist mortals in their afflictions. …”
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Luxury, Mystification, and Oppressive Power in d’Holbach’s Philosophical Writings by Enrico Galvagni

“…It is nothing mysterious nor supernatural. This naturalization of luxury allows people to unmask the god-like tyrant as a common human being, showing that understanding how nature works can set man free not only from religion, but also from oppressive political power.…”
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<i>Foederis Arca</i>—The Ark of the Covenant, a Biblical Symbol of the Virgin Mary by José María Salvador-González

“…To justify such a designation, the author refers to the systematic analysis of the patristic, theological, and hymnic sources of the Eastern and Western Churches, in which the Virgin Mary is labeled as the “Ark of the Covenant” for her virginal divine motherhood, her supreme holiness, and her supernatural privileges. The perfect coincidence, with which for more than a millennium the Fathers, theologians, and liturgical hymnographers of the Greek-Eastern and Latin Churches alluded to the Virgin Mary through this biblical symbol, demonstrates the strong coherence of the Mariological theses of the Christian doctrinal tradition on the person and spiritual attributes of the Virgin Mary. …”
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Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s Concept of Christians Engagement in Culture by Ryszard Ficek

“…Moreover, by emphasizing elements such as the human person, family, nation, state, the international community, culture, economy, and politics, as well as the Church proclaiming the universal message of salvation, the personalistic vision of culture emphasizes its praxeological character, rooted in a specific human existence and oriented towards the supernatural dimension. Therefore, the human person is directly involved in the stream of modern civilization and its cultural changes, as well as finds his proper place in the dynamically changing realities of the contemporary world. …”
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A Mortal Visits the Other World – the Relativity of Time in Estonian Fairy Tales by Mairi Kaasik

“…This article analyses Estonian fairy tales with regard to perceiving supernatural lapses of time, focusing on the tale type cluster A Mortal Visits the Other World, which includes tale types ATU 470, 470A, 471, and 471A. …”
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Dimitrie Cantemir: mize ale gândirii filosofice timpurii by Ştefan Afloroaei

“…Similarly there is the idea that any created thing is inherently natural and lasting, supernatural. In contrast to those that regard only the natural condition of man, Cantemir talks of three images thereof: a theological one, a philosophical one (“metaphysical”) and a naturalistic one (“physical”), the latter being rather frequently encountered in his time. …”
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