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Sacramental Magic explores the animate statue in early modern romance as an emblem of the potential spiritually transformative power of objects. The tendency of New Historicism to "empty out" theology from Catholicism overlooks the continued power of sacred objects in Reformatio…

This dissertation will make a contribution to debates on mysticism and religious experiences by exploring the neuroscientific and medical studies performed on the Medjugorje visionaries and analyze what hermeneutical contributions these studies make to our understanding of extra…

Utilizing hermeneutical phenomenology, this study discovers the themes which denominate the essence of the religious experiences of religiously-committed and active Buddhist, Muslim, and Christian international students in the US. In 2004, 26 international students at the Univer…