When Coleridge began dictating his Biographia Literaria in 1815, he was at the same time becoming actively involved in a medico-philosophical controversy that was then drawing the attention of many medical men and philosophers in England. The fundamental issue behind the quarrel, a materialistic versus a vitalist theory of nature, was one Coleridge had argued in one form or another throughout h...

Drawing on the extant literature populism, we aim to flesh out how populists in power utilize religion and related state resources setting up aggressive, multidimensional religious populist “us” versus “them” binaries. We focus Turkey as our case argue that by instrumentalizing Diyanet (Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs), authoritarian Islamists have been able consolidate manufactured di...

extended abstract 1. introduction abbasid period can be regarded as an epoch in which poetry and eulogy in persia reached maturity, i.e., in which poetry has become a means of praise and admiration (dayf, 2006, p. 565). the kings of this dynasty gathered a group of flattered eulogists and used them for political announcements (alebadi, 2006, p. 13), by allocating precious gifts of war booty to ...