Based on various sources, the article analyzes structure of organizational culture, both commercial and religious. Already known precedents are considered in detail, when culture a acquires signs religious one; causes, consequences mechanisms such metamorphosis also considered. Another one main issue is point no return corporation gets occult features. The based assertion that ideas for organiz...

RICHARD DEACON, Matthew Hopkins; Witch Finder General, London, Frederick Muller, 1976, 8vo, pp. 223, illus., £6.50. The current interest in witchcraft and the occult continues unabated, and no doubt this book is intended for this insatiable appetite. In addition, however, the author, who is a professional writer, claims the relevance of historical witchcraft to similar practices today, which is...

The title of this book promises the exposure occult currents within founding fabric academic field religious studies—a commitment that is kept overall. Within volume’s introduction, Yves Mühlematter and Helmut Zander argue esotericism a “cross-cutting, interdisciplinary topic” (2) may be investigated numerous fields, rather than separate itself. Furthermore, editors state “global history, postc...

Who Believes in Belief? William Pooley (bio) modernity, belief, alief, doubt, Jason Josephson Storm, Michael Saler, Jeanne Favret-Saada, Nils Bubandt The "disenchantment of the world" remains a guiding metanarrative for many histories last four hundred years Europe. There are those who continue to argue what Keith Thomas called general "decline magic," even if they disagree about chronologies a...

HILMA AF KLINT: SEEING IS BELIEVING Edited by Kurt Almqvist and Louise Belfrage Stockholm: Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2020 Pp. 152. CLOTH, $35.00. NOTES AND METHODS Christine Burgin. CHICAGO, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. 288. Cloth, $31.25. VISIONARY 124. $31.72. ARTIST, RESEARCHER, MEDIUM Iris Müller-Westermann Milena Høgsberg. Moderna Museet, Hatje Cantz Berlin, Germany: Verlag, 280. $...

This essay reflects on the ambivalent reception of The Death of Nature among Englishspeaking historians of early modern science. It argues that, despite its importance, the book was mostly ignored or marginalized by these historians (as opposed to historians interested in feminist or environmental studies) for a variety of reasons. These included the special role played by the “Scientific Revol...

Both parapsychologists and skeptics have interests in investigating the nature of belief in the paranormal, albeit with somewhat different objectives in mind. Despite substantial variation across studies in the definition of the scope of paranormal belief, some degree of order can be imposed on the empirical literature by taking due account of the multidimensionality of paranormal belief. In th...

The author discusses the architectural plans of the Mundaneum made in the 1930s by the Belgian modernist architect Maurice Heymans in the footsteps of Le Corbusier and in collaboration with Paul Otlet. The Mundaneum was the utopian concept of a world center for the accumulation, organization, and dissemination of knowledge, invented by the visionary encyclopedist and internationalist Paul Otlet...