Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

1830’da Mormon Kitabı’nın yayımlanmasıyla kendini duyuran Mormonluk, bugüne dek çoğunlukla teolojik ve politik açılardan değerlendirilmiştir. Oysa Mormon Kilisesi, kendini tanıtmak ve eleştirilere cevap vermek için kontrolündeki gazeteleri yoğun biçimde kullanmıştır. Mormon basınına odaklanan az sayıdaki çalışma ise b…

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Archives of citizen UFO reports are routinely read as records of what people saw. This study instead treats them as records of what three agents contributed to a single document. Analysing 87,594 reports filed with the National UFO Reporting Centre from U.S. locations between 1947 and 2022, we distinguish the categori…

Astrology has become a visible and normalized element of contemporary digital public spaces, where it functions less as a system of belief and more as a medium for emotional expression, identity narration, and everyday sense-making. This study conceptualizes astrology-related communication not as an epistemic claim re…

In this study, Ingmar Bergman’s film Winter Light (1963) is examined through the pessimistic philosophical perspective of thinker Emil Cioran. Utilizing philosophical content analysis based on a descriptive analysis model, the article investigates how Cioran’s concepts of “the trouble with being born,” “the fall into…

• CENK ATEŞ

Menstruation is a biological process that is a natural part of reproductive health; however, it is also socially and culturally gendered. Social stigmas around menstruation often construct it as a form of “illness”, “impurity”, or “restriction”. This sociocultural construct defines which activities are considered “for…

• OLCAY BOZKUŞ DEMİR

This article aims to investigate the perdurable presence of shamanic archetypes across world literatures with a particular emphasis on English and Turkic narrative traditions. As a manifestation of the primordial spiritual practice, shamanism provides a solid framework for understanding the tenacious engagement of hum…

• VOLHA KORBUT SALMAN

This article offers a comprehensive analysis of shamanism in the Central Asian context, arguing that it cannot be reduced to a static relic of the past but should instead be understood as a dynamic and multi-layered system of meaning-making. First, the cosmological and ritual foundations of shamanism—anchored in tripa…

• ÇAKIR CEYHAN SUVARİ

The article conceptualizes the sacralization of female images in the traditional culture of Kazakhstan as a philosophical mediating category between the bodily and the spiritual, the individual and the collective. The phenomenon of holiness is analyzed through the dichotomy of the sacred and the profane (M. Eliade) an…

• HACI AHMET ŞİMŞEK

Bu çalışma, Kıta Avrupa’sında din psikolojisinin kurucu isimleri arasında seçkin bir yere sahip olan Théodore Flournoy’un (1854–1920) kuruluş sürecinde din psikolojisine katkılarını incelemektedir. Nitel desende yürütülen araştırmada veriler, Flournoy’un eserleri ve hakkında yazılmış biyografik metinlerden toplanmış;…

• SAKİN ÖZIŞIK

The annual William Blake checklist aims to record new editions, facsimiles, reproductions, translations, bibliographies, biographies, scholarship, and significant digital discussions from the last year. It is only through the kind assistance of collaborators that this bibliography is able to list these sources from mu…

• HÜSEYİN ALHAS

Bu çalışma, erken dönem Hıristiyan düşüncesinin hem kurucu hem de tartışmalı isimlerinden biri olan Tertullian’ın (öl. 220?) paganizm eleştirisi ve Hıristiyanlık savunusunu, başta Apologeticum, De Idololatria, De Spectaculis, De Corona Militis ve De Testimonio Animae olmak üzere temel eserleri üzerinden incelemeyi ama…

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