Lê Phô, Mai Thứ, and Vũ Cao Đàm lived in France and learned French artistic techniques but never forgot the Buddhas and spirits of Vietnam’s tradition.
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#SheToo: The Experience of MISA Women. 3. Erotic Continence
Women describe the most controversial practices of MISA, those related to sacred eroticism.
#SheToo: The Experience of MISA Women. 2. Following Gregorian Bivolaru
Women students reveal fascinating details on how MISA began and their personal relationship with its founder.
Mihai and Adina Stoian: A Humanitarian Appeal
Pending a final decision on their extradition to France, the two yoga teachers detained in Georgia should be released on bail for health reasons.
#SheToo: The Experience of MISA Women. 1. The Scholar and the Yoginis
A scholars traveled to Romania to let the women of the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute tell their stories in their own words.
Five Jehovah’s Witnesses Sentenced to Two Years in Jail in Algeria for Sharing Their Faith
Their teachings are accused of “endangering the unity of the nation.” It is a clear violation of international principles on freedom of religion or belief.
The Enigmas of Picasso’s “Crucifixion”
A great and difficult work, it has been called “a blind spot in Picasso scholarship.” What does it really have to do with religion?
Is Turin Really “the City of Magic”? 4. The Legend of the “City of the Devil”
The legend of Turin as the “city of the Devil” derives from nineteenth-century memories but also from a goliardic prank of the late 1960s.
Is Turin Really “the City of Magic”? 3. The Waldensian Myth and the Alternatives to Catholicism
Although it has nothing to do with magic, the 19th-century tolerance for religions other than the Catholic Church in Turin helped create the myth of the “capital of alternative spiritualities”
Is Turin Really “the City of Magic”? 2. Spirits in Turin
In the 19th century, Turin was conquered—for a time, more than other Italian cities—by the fashion for spiritualism.