Movements
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Cults and Sects Accused by the Recipients of Divine Grace
Some cults and sects believed that they were the recipients of divine grace and would be protected by the Holy…
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New Directions in Gothic Media and Popular Culture
In our media-centred twenty-first century, the Gothic has colonised different forms of expression, where the impact left by literary works…
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The Bubonic Plague and Other Natural Catastrophes
The decade of the 540s formed one of the major caesuras of Roman history. How should we assess the setbacks…
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Surrealism and the Occult Esotericism in Movements
Although it garnered little attention at the time, this ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ heralded the existence of an avant-garde movement that…
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An Introduction from Gothic Music to Modern Pop Goth
Pop Goth can be defined as a particular group of people that only dress and act gothic when it is…
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Representation of Women in Heavy Metal as a Subculture
In order to understand the phenomenon of women representation in metal, it is first necessary to create a general picture…
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Cryptography as Living Death: The Horrors of Rupture
This chapter reconsiders how the arts can function as means to democratic ends after Theodore Adorno’s comment on the impossibility…
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The Artist’s Cultural Fashions and History of Religions
The question that I should like to discuss in this article is the following: what does a historian of religions…
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The Order of the Knights Templar, the Assassins, and Heresy
In 1128 the Order was sanctioned by the Council of Troyes and by the Pope, and a rule was drawn…
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Gothic Matters: the Brainchild of the Eighteenth-Century
Once considered escapist or closely linked to fantasy, the Gothic genre (or mode, as scholars increasingly call it) has recently…
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Occultism and the Adepts: Teachings of Occult Philosophy
The identity of occultism as practised in all ages must be kept in view, to account for the magnitude of…
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The Gothic Scholars, Studies and Subcultures
Goth youth subcultures and Gothic Studies are complex manifestations of the same postmodern resistance against the excessive rationalism of the…
