INSTRUMENTS AND ENDS IN SPIRITUAL WORLD CONQUEST∗

Natural Selection and the Spiritual World

Visionary Spiritual Experiences in an Enchanted World

In the “disenchanted” modern world, belief in the existence of spirits came to be seen as a nonrational and nonempirical product of culture. Psychological and anthropological theorizing explained naïve, nonmodern spirit encounter experiences as culturally loaded imaginative events. Among modern populations such experiences were assumed to be pathological and relatively rare. The resulting stigm...

Born to die: disease and new world conquest, 1492–1650

reflects the many facets of the life sciences, their medical and political ramifications. With several trans-European as well as British and American contributors, the editors have assembled an impressive panel. Charles Webster searches for the most authentic portrait of Paracelsus and resolves its paradoxical depiction of a bare-headed, care-worn visage by exposing its polemical and rhetorical...

Innovative Instruments and Legal Mechanisms of Bank Capitalization: National Features and World Trends

The article investigates the role of bank capital in financing reproduction processes and increase of economic growth indicators, considers the essence of the concept of “bank capitalization”, determines the structure and main sources of bank capital increase. Taking into account the fact that Ukraine and Poland have similar vectors of economic development, the current practices of increasing t...

effectiveness of hedstroum files and rotary k3 instruments in removal of obturation materials during retreatment in curved canals

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