Occultists Study Dark Arts

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-155
Author(s):  
Thomas Waters
Keyword(s):  
Christian Science ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Modern Age

This chapter shows that witchcraft did not beguile only rustic simpletons during the Victorian era. In cities and suburbs, behind expensive curtains and in bay-windowed houses, avant-garde types experimented with new forms of occultism. Spiritualism, theosophy, Christian Science, and extremely complex ritual magic — these types of mysticism are often seen as positive, therapeutic, and emancipating. In many ways they were, but the late Victorian occult revival had dark sides too. Many occultists were intrigued by evil powers and some were absolutely obsessed with them. These characters, with their strange theories and esoteric investigations, helped to refresh the idea of witchcraft, rendering it in terms that befitted the modern age.

Transformed Religion and a Proliferation of Churches

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Robert Reed
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Christian Science ◽  
Black Clergy ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Black Agency

The roles of religion and accompanying church life in the modern age remained one of the major wellsprings of black agency. It was within these spheres that E. Franklin Frazier observed a type of religious freedom and expression that permeated the African American class and cultural spectrum. Blacks attended religious services and practiced a variety of beliefs ranging from Christian Science teaching to genuine Islam to elevated Baha'ism to black Judaism to various esoteric strains of Christianity. This chapter covers this transformation, which also witnessed the city's black clergy bridging the constitutional gap between church and state in a most dramatic fashion.

scholarly journals EXISTENTIALISM IN “FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN”

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (43) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manisha Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Human Predicament ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Almost All ◽  
In Fire

Existentialism, a quite contemporary dogma apparent in the philosophical and literary work of Sartre, was much in vogue in the European literature dating back from mid-twentieth century. Existentialism dealing greatly with the alienated trepidation, preposterousness, prejudice, escapism, over attraction for liberation, started becoming the subject matter of almost all the writers of the modern age. As an avant-garde novelist, Anita Desai in “Fire on the Mountain” exhibits a strong inclination towards the existentialist interpretation of the human predicament.” Desai’s characters of Nanda Kaul, Raka and Ila Das are studies of women in the utter maze of isolation and ennui. The novel espouses the universal human struggle for survival, especially in the face of a never ending spiral of human failures and misfortunes.

scholarly journals Semantic vectors of sociocultural transformations: cultural and philosophical analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Aleksei Nikolaevich Tarasov ◽  
Viktor Ivanovich Luk'yanchikov
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociocultural Transformation ◽  
Selection Of

The subject of this research is the conditions, under which in the transitional periods that are defined by the author as “sociocultural transformation”, is carried out the selection of cultural-dominant characteristics forming the essence of the next gradual stage in the dynamics of culture. These conditions are determined based on the analysis of the dynamics of culture of the European (Euro-Atlantic) civilization. The author considered such transitional periods as Late Hellenism, Renaissance and Reformation, avant-garde and postmodernism, which represent the sociocultural transformation between Antiquity, Middle Ages and Modern Age respectively. The method of philosophical interpretation of the cultural phenomena of European (Euro-Atlantic) civilization became the key method for this research. The main conclusion of this work consists in description of  such semantic vectors of sociocultural transformation as relativization of meanings, paralyzation of meanings, principle of doubt and uncertainty, and separation with the preceding cultural tradition. These semantic vectors orient towards upward tendency of cultural development.

scholarly journals L’èxtasi poètic de Fontanella: metateatre i música a la Lloa per la Tragicomèdia pastoral d’amor, firmesa i porfia

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Gaston Gilabert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Functional Importance ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Dramatic Structure

Resum: En absència d’estudis monogràfics sobre la Lloa de Fontanella, aquest article n’ analitza l’estructura dramàtica, començant amb una reflexió sobre llur classificació dintre del gènere i sobre l’espai de la Barcelona del segle XVII que podria haver-la escenificat. La importància funcional que el poeta barceloní atorga a la música i al metateatre condueixen a una interpretació de la Lloa des d’un punt de vista poeticomusical, la qual cosa permet una nova lectura de certs passatges i una valoració crítica que afecta, no només a la peça en qüestió sinó a tota la Tragicomèdia pastoral d’amor, firmesa i porfia i al caràcter d’avantguarda del teatre català de l’Edat Moderna Paraules clau: Francesc Fontanella, teatre català, literatura barroca, música, Barcelona.   Abstract: In the absence of monographic studies on Fontanella’s Lloa, this paper analyses its dramatic structure, starting with a reflection on their classification within the genre and on the context of 17th century Barcelona where it could have been staged. The functional importance that this Barcelonian poet grants to music and metatheatre leads to an interpretation of the Lloa from a poetic-musical point of view, which allows a new reading of certain passages and a critical evaluation that affects not only the piece in question, but also the whole Tragicomèdia pastoral d’amor, firmesa i porfia and the avant-garde character of the Catalan theatre of the Modern Age. Keywords: Francesc Fontanella, Catalan theatre, baroque literature, music, Barcelona.

The Director, the Spectator and the Eiffel Tower

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
DENNIS KENNEDY
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Cultural Authority ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Theatre Historiography

Though directors have been central to the theatre for more than a century, it is not easy to describe their function or explain fully what they do. Since they have not all done the same things, theorizing the office is a slippery enterprise. Despite this difficulty, the cultural authority of directors has become embedded in the thinking of both the commercial and subsidized sectors in most countries in the world, including many parts of Asia, so that directors are fundamental to the way we comprehend and value theatrical work. Though dictatorial modes of direction have been challenged in the past three decades by a variety of strategies, the theatre industry continues to rely heavily upon the managerial and aesthetic skills of the director, who stands as an icon of the successes and failures of twentieth-century theatre. This essay discusses two alternative histories of the director in the modern age, the modernist avant-garde model and an industrial model, showing that the two are much closer than typically claimed. Using André Antoine as case study, the essay offers a critique of certain tendencies in modernist theatre historiography. A final section looks at the interrelationship of the director and the spectator.

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