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    Cultism and Transhumanism: About Ghost in the Shell.Daniele Carluccio - 2024 - Iris 44.
    This article by Daniele Carluccio is studying the conjunction between cultism and transhumanism with three movements : a brief history of cultism, the analysis of the movie Ghost in the Shell (2017) and its reception, and a comment about a specific scene emphasizing a culto-transhumanist imaginary. Using some theoretical concepts, such as the cult movie of Umberto Eco or the moment of truth of Roland Barthes, Daniele Carluccio examines the theme of transhumanism and the definition of a movie (...)
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    Cultism in Rivers State: Causes, Faith-Based Organizations’ Role and the Setbacks.George C. Nche - 2020 - Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 37 (1):18-36.
    This study explored the role of faith-based organizations in addressing the scourge of cultism in Rivers State. Views were elicited from 16 informants from different parts of the state. Using a descriptive narrative approach, the study revealed that youth unwillingness to work and unemployment were ranked highest among the factors responsible for the menace of cultism in Rivers State. Prayers and occasional enlightenment are the major roles FBOs have played in addressing the menace amidst setbacks such as complicity (...)
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    Tackling the Menace of Cultism in Africa's Tertiary Educational Institutions: Focus on Nigeria.U. E. Iwara - 2007 - Sophia: An African Journal of Philosophy 9 (1).
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  4. La palabra lúdica.Mario Ramírez-Orozco - 2011 - Logos: Revista de la Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades 20:143-162.
    Erudition as a cultist topic and style, recreated in countless traditional sources, helps Colombian writer R. H. Moreno-Durán to establish a delicate equilibrium between the parodic forms of linguistics research and the recreational contents that reflect the thinking conscience of men and the dialogic sphere of their existence. All these elements are present in his novel, El toque de Diana (Diana’s touch) and are conjugated to the theoretical contribution of Mijail Bajtín, and they make it possible to explain the exploration (...)
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    QAnon as an Online-Facilitated Cult.Shuki J. Cohen - 2022 - Journal of Religion and Violence 10 (1):37-71.
    Through the examination of QAnon as a religious apocalyptic “digital cult,” this paper integrates individual psychological models regarding the espousal of conspiracy beliefs with sociological and anthropological models of religious cultism, particularly in the context of destructive and violent cults. This integrative model purports to reconcile the apparent contradiction between the extravagant irrationality of the QAnon belief-system with the otherwise normative demographics of its adherents and distinguish—as scholars of religion often do—between the creed, the practice, and the social identity (...)
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    To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides, The Origins of Philosophy.Arnold Hermann - 2004 - Parmenides Publishing.
    This book is the scholarly & fully annotated edition of the award-winning _The Illustrated To Think Like God.__ _To Think Like God_ focuses on the emergence of philosophy as a speculative science, tracing its origins to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy, from the late 6th century to mid-5th century B.C. Special attention is paid to the sage Pythagoras and his movement, the poet Xenophanes of Colophon, and the lawmaker Parmenides of Elea. In their own ways, each thinker held that (...)
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    Demythologizing environmentalism.Douglas R. Weiner - 1992 - Journal of the History of Biology 25 (3):385-411.
    In the early 1950s Grant McConnell, Jr., called for a political adjudication of our environmental and political visions. He pointed out the arbitrary nature of Gifford Pinchot's noble-sounding formula (“The greatest good for the greatest number over the longest time”), noting that such a determination depended on whom you asked. No technocrat can determine the greatest good on the basis of some secret expertise or privileged knowledge. We need to resolve our disparate visions of the uses of nature and human (...)
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  8. White Power and American Neoliberal Culture by Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan (review).Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor - 2024 - Utopian Studies 35 (1):251-256.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:White Power and American Neoliberal Culture by Patricia Ventura and Edward K. ChanJennifer A. Wagner-LawlorPatricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan. White Power and American Neoliberal Culture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 168 pp., hardcover, $22.95. ISBN 9780520392793.White Power and American Neoliberal Culture, by utopian studies scholars Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan, feels like a tour de force. I say "feels" for a reason: if you live (...)
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    Three Species of Technological Dependency.Jim Gerrie - 2008 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 12 (3):184-194.
    One can find from a survey of the work of three prominent philosophers of technology in the late twentieth century, a very different kind of metaphor for describing the powerful, but not fully determinative influence that technology has on our lives. These three theories each centre on a concept I call "technological dependency." The most prominent exponents of technological dependency are Marshall McLuhan, Herbert Marcuse and Jacques Ellul. Although there are similarities between their descriptions of the phenomenon of dependency, their (...)
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    Three Species of Technological Dependency.Jim Gerrie - 2008 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 12 (3):184-194.
    One can find from a survey of the work of three prominent philosophers of technology in the late twentieth century, a very different kind of metaphor for describing the powerful, but not fully determinative influence that technology has on our lives. These three theories each centre on a concept I call "technological dependency." The most prominent exponents of technological dependency are Marshall McLuhan, Herbert Marcuse and Jacques Ellul. Although there are similarities between their descriptions of the phenomenon of dependency, their (...)
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    Religious Matrifocality.Renato Ortiz - 1979 - Diogenes 27 (105):38-55.
    The presence of women in possession cults has frequently been noted. Thus women are usually the priviliged religious participants in Haitian Voo-doo and in the African Bori Hausa. Even allowing for the distinction of whether the role of religious chief is held by a male or a female, it seems women are in the majority in the cases representing almost the totality of those cultists who fall into a trance. In this article we propose to compare the position of women (...)
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    Ioannites - the course of the chiliastic-eschatological orientation of Orthodox origin.Liudmyla M. Shuhayeva - 2006 - Ukrainian Religious Studies 39:145-153.
    In the first decades of the XIX century. the territory of the Russian Empire from Western Europe is beginning to penetrate chiliastic ideas. The term "chiliism" refers to the well-known doctrine of the millennial kingdom of Icyca Christ on earth, dating to the first centuries of Christianity. The ideas of chilias became especially popular during the reign of Alexander I, who himself was sympathetic to the mystical-chiliatic teachings. Chilias in the Russian Empire spread in two ways. On the one hand, (...)
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    Lenin and Philosophy Should We Not Pose This Problem Anew?A. Volodin - 1991 - Russian Studies in Philosophy 30 (1):70-87.
    It is time to pose directly and seriously the question of the fate of Marxist philosophical theory at the end of the twentieth century. And not only the question of Marxism in general, but more specifically the question of Leninism, of the essence of the "Leninist stage in the development of the philosophy of Marxism," of Lenin the philosopher. It is Lenin's theoretical legacy that calls for an especially careful investigation today, because it above all is what has undergone canonization (...)
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    The Illustrated to Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides, the Origins of Philosophy.Arnold Hermann - 2004 - Parmenides Publishing.
    Fascinating illustrations contribute to this illuminating and award-winning account of how and why philosophy emerged and make it a must-read for any inquisitive thinker unsatisfied with prevailing assumptions on this timely and highly relevant subject._ By taking the reader back to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy more than 500 years B.C., the author, with unparalleled insight, tells the story of the Pythagorean quest for otherwordly konwledge -- a tale of cultism, political conspiracies, and bloody uprisings that eventually culminate (...)
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    The Crown and the Grave, or the Birth of the Cult of Saint Adalbert of Prague in Medieval Poland.Monika Salmon-Siama - 2011 - Iris 32:153-168.
    The object of this article is to present, through the example of the birth of the cult of Saint Adalbert, Bishop of Prague, the means by which his hagiographic myth evolved within the ideological and cultural fabric of Poland around the year 1000. By highlighting the various symbolic events marking the official recognition of sainthood of the martyr, beheaded in Prussia in 997, the evolution of the religious conceptions of that period of Christian cultism will be studied in order (...)
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