For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan ...explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry—the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation—Bogdan examines the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—the most influential of all nineteenth-century occultist initiatory societies—and Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large- scale Western esoteric New Religions Movements.
•Entrepreneurship promotes the marketization of the business environment.•R&D investment has a threshold effect on the marketization of the business environment.•The level of regional innovation ...affects the marketization of the business environment.•The marketization level of the business environment affects regional powers.•Decentralization is conducive to the cultivation of entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship has become an essential for countries to promote the marketization of the business environment and accelerate economic growth in the post-epidemic era. Based on the investigation of 31 provincial-level panel data in China, this paper concludes that entrepreneurship plays a significant role in promoting the marketization of the business environment. Further research found that the level of government research and development (R&D) funding and regional innovation capabilities are intermediary variables that affect the marketization of the business environment and have a threshold effect. When the government R&D funding crosses the second threshold, every 1% increase in regional innovation capabilities decreases the degree of marketization by 0.197%. Therefore, it is crucial to rapidly streamline the administration process and delegation of power, optimize the government’s administrative efficiency, and give full play to the entrepreneurial spirit to promote the economy’s sustainable development.
Covers Third Article Theology (TAT) and what is has to say to church leaders facing the challenges of our age. Introduces the approach of TAT, then outlines three key insights it gives for ministry ...in 21st century New Zealand – insights that make a difference personally, pastorally, and prayerfully. Illustrates the value of church leaders intentionally training themselves to see reality through a 'spirit'-ual perspective. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Desecularizing Santner's Psychotheology Klein, Rebekka A.
Angelaki : journal of theoretical humanities,
05/03/2024, 2024-05-03, Letnik:
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In this paper, Eric Santner's theory of political flesh is appreciated in its relation to philosophy of religion and Christian theology. In the first part of the paper, Santner's speculative concept ...is brought into conversation with the debate on embodiment, incarnation, and a hermeneutics of the flesh. Santner's conception of the flesh is shown to follow a logic of excarnation, or rather disincorporation, and thus to be at odds with contemporary harmonistic theories of embodiment that attempt to think body and spirit together without rupture. In contrast, the relevance of Santner's theory lies precisely in its antagonistic reading of the dynamics that constitute human embodied being - a dimension overlooked by most recent theories of embodiment. The second part of the article develops a reading of Protestantism as a "religion of the flesh" in line with Santner's argument. In doing so, it is shown that the Protestant narrative of self-modernization and progress (Hegel's "religion of freedom") can be subverted by the conception of the flesh brought into play by Santner, revealing a much more ambivalent history of Protestantism. In a re-reading of the theologies of Karl Barth, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and John Calvin, it is shown that the Protestant understanding of the church can be made transparent to a figure of the undead that is virulent in it, namely the undead flesh of Jesus Christ. In the end, the question is raised whether this figure of an "undead" Christ might not be interpreted as a paradoxological intervention in the sense of Eric Santner.
The seer (mantis), an expert in the art of divination, operated in ancient Greek society through a combination of charismatic inspiration and diverse skills ranging from examining the livers of ...sacrificed animals to spirit possession. Unlike the palm readers and mediums who exist on the fringe of modern society, many seers were highly paid, well respected, educated members of the elite who played an essential role in the conduct of daily life, political decisions, and military campaigns. Armies, for example, never went anywhere without one. This engaging book, the only comprehensive study of this fascinating figure, enters into the socioreligious world of ancient Greece to explore what seers did, why they were so widely employed, and how their craft served as a viable and useful social practice.
The entrepreneurial spirit is the first step that encourages individuals to start stepping into the business world. The current fact, where the number of open unemployment based on higher education ...levels has increased by 12.82% as of August 2021, shows that job competition is getting tougher. Thus, various efforts are needed in changing the mindset of students as job seekers to job creators. This is what prompted the Economic Education laboratory service team of FKIP Sriwijaya University to carry out online seminars/entrepreneurship webinars with the theme fostering the spirit of young entrepreneurs in the pandemic era on March 12, 2022. This activity was attended by 256 participants online. The steps for the service activities include planning, implementing and evaluating activities. The service method used is the implementation of webinars by providing explanations and material exposure, interactive discussion and question and answer with participants, and evaluation of activities by giving questionnaires. Based on the activities that have been carried out, it shows the enthusiasm of the participants in participating in this activity and getting a positive response in growing the enthusiasm and motivation of participants to start a business. This is supported by the results of the participant response questionnaire which obtained an average score of 90.91 in the aspect of growing enthusiasm and motivation for entrepreneurship. Because through this activity the participants gain insight into entrepreneurship and gain business inspiration from business actors who have tasted the sweetness of success from the business they are living. In an effort to change the mindset and create entrepreneurs among students, it is not enough just to inspire enthusiasm and motivation for entrepreneurship, further activities are needed in the form of training and assistance in realizing various business ideas that are owned, namely by providing education and capital resources that students can use. increasing entrepreneurial experience through hands-on practical activities, as well as education in terms of business development, in the form of business management, product management, and marketing techniques.
From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to ...shallow materialism.
Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how spirituality has in fact become a powerful commodity in the global marketplace - a cultural addiction that reflects orthodox politics, curbs self-expression and colonizes Eastern beliefs.Exposing how spirituality has today come to embody the privatization of religion in the modern West, Jeremy Carrette and Richard King reveal the people and brands who profit from this corporate hijack, and explore how spirituality can be reclaimed as a means of resistance to capitalism and its deceptions.
Decades of speculation about a warmer, wetter Mars climate in the planet's first billion years postulate a denser CO₂ -rich atmosphere than at present. Such an atmosphere should have led to the ...formation of outcrops rich in carbonate minerals, for which evidence has been sparse. Using the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, we have now identified outcrops rich in magnesium-iron carbonate (16 to 34 weight percent) in the Columbia Hills of Gusev crater. Its composition approximates the average composition of the carbonate globules in martian meteorite ALH 84001. The Gusev carbonate probably precipitated from carbonate-bearing solutions under hydrothermal conditions at near-neutral pH in association with volcanic activity during the Noachian era.
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