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The Religious and Quasi-Religious Genealogy of the Theology of Nazism

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Bubnov E.
Dialogue and Universalism
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2021
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issue 1
69-86
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The article is dedicated to the understanding of the Nazi anthropology as an element of the quasi-religious concept. Adolf Hitler’s racial theory unequivocally rejected the human status of persons not belonging to the Caucasian race, labeling them as Untermensch (“under-man”). Such an attitude was due to several prerequisites. However, the core reason is manifested not in the rational sphere. In the twentieth century, concepts of quasi-religions and political religions became widespread due to the reign of two totalitarian ideologies in Eurasia—Nazism and Communism. Numerous scholars emphasized the fact that these ideologies performed religious functions thus occupying an intellectual space at the interface between the religious and the secular. Quasi-religion adherents may be equally fanatic as religious radicals. Questions about whether this similarity is mere coincidence or whether quasi-religions are derivatives from traditional religions and the meaning of this problem today deserve close attention.
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The Occultist Background of Bolshevism

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Stanisławczyk B.
Polish Journal of Political Science
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2023
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vol. 9
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issue 3
50-59
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The revolution in Russia was not conceived among workers and peasants, as it has been accepted in popular historiography. It was a project with intelligentsia roots and an esoteric background. The aim of the article is to show the long occultist path that led to Bolshevism and communism, whose origins date back to the times of Peter I and his reforms, carried out in the spirit of Western Gnosticism with the help of secret societies. In the 19th century Russia was captured by an occult frenzy, which combined various currents of thought and made the society treat the revolution as a mystical action leading to the construction of a new world. The issue we deal with in the article covers a wide range of interrelated social, political and cultural phenomena over the three hundred years of Russian history, for which the international context is extremely important. For obvious reasons, we do not aspire to exhaust the subject. The text is intended to draw attention to the actual profound causes for the origination of Bolshevism and communism, creating a scientific basis for a study that will be soon brought out in the book form.
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„Ciało świątynią duszy”, czyli o procesie budowania tożsamości praktykującego hatha-jogę. Konstruowanie prywatnej quasi-religii

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Konecki K. T.
Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
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2012
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vol. 8
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issue 2
64-111
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The article addresses the problem of perceiving and experiencing one’s body within the yoga practice. The process of becoming a yogi is related to the practices of the body and to further defining them; next, to the defined perception of the body and its sensations. Becoming a hatha-yoga practitioner is a specific process. In this paper I describe its phases: 1. The introductory phase – constructing the motives and first steps; 2. Phase of the deeper recognition of psycho-physical effects of yoga practice and of attributing them with adequate meanings; 3. Phase of the deeper recognition of hatha-yoga spiritual aspects (quasi-religion). At the moment of significant involvement in hatha-yoga practice and defining corporeal practices in terms of being bodily and mental at the same time, the mind – body rapport compound. The work over the body may transform the Western perspective of defining the body as a substantial element of human existence (Cartesian vision) into treating it as a spiritualized matter (vision of Eastern philosophy). If, however, the tenets of other religions are maintained as one’s own (e.g., catholic religion), the transformation at hand will not proceed. In that case, in order to reconcile the conventional religion tenets with new spiritual experiences, changes in body and mind need to be defined in any other way, and a specific linguistic explanations of these changes (often adopting the scheme of constant linguistic formulas) need to occur.
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