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• Transformation
  ...f thousand years (although its present form dates to around the 4th or 5th century c.e.). Unlike classic Hinduism, the traditional Samkhyan philosophy is [[at .... And while essentially a [[static]] worldview, by the 18th and early 19th century it had been "temporalized" by the [[concept]] of the soul ascending or prog
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• Literary theory
  ...e the [[18th century]], [[aesthetics]] and [[hermeneutics]]. In the [[20th century]], "theory" has become an umbrella term for a variety of scholarly approach ...s from [[ancient philosophy]] through the [[18th century|18th]] and [[19th century|19th centuries]] are important influences on current literary study. The th
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• Alchemy
  ...aqua vitae (alcohol) and of the mineral acids, both before the thirteenth century; the preparation of vitriol and the alums. ...post-Renaissance alchemical literature. An author quoted by the fifteenth-century Rosarium philosophorum declares that "only he who knows how to make the Phi
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• Materialism
  Later Indian materialist Jayaraashi Bhatta (6th century CE) in his work ''Tattvopaplavasimha'' ("the Upsetting of all principles") In early 12th-century al-Andalus], the Arabian philosopher, Ibn Tufail (Abubacer), wrote discussi
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• Hebrew Bible
  [[Image:Targum2.jpg|right|frame|<center>265px|11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with [[Targum]]</center>]] ...of the relationship between the Testaments became controversial in the 2nd century. Consensus was eventually achieved, well before the Catholic-Orthodox divis
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• New Religious Movement
  ...define as "new" everything after the advent of the Bahá'í Faith (mid-19th century). ...ge]] groups, have emerged, some of which originated in the late Nineteenth century in the Meiji Era and others in the aftermath of World War Two.
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...Empire]] in the fifth century A.D. to the [[Renaissance]] in the sixteenth century. It is defined partly by the [[process]] of rediscovering the ancient cultu ...ed and cultivated; *the [[Islamic]] period from the seventh to the twelfth century, consisting of translating the ancient philosophers, commenting upon, clari
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• Sociology of religion
  ...classical, seminal sociological theorists of the late 19th and early 20th century were greatly interested in [[religion]] and its effects on society. These t ...r, noteworthy for anticipating the “[[culture]] [[war]]s” of the late 20th century, especially their religious [[character]].
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• Collective Intelligence
  ...om, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, 2000 ...Technology, Industry, Culture” in Terry Flew, New Media: An Introduction (2nd edn), Oxford University Press, South Melbourne 101-114.
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• Gifford Lectures
  ...wick Owen Chadwick] ''The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century'', ISBN 0-521-39829-0 ...kipedia.org/wiki/John_Hick John Hick] ''An Interpretation of Religion'', (2nd ed.): ISBN 0-300-10668-8
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• Quantum Mechanics
  ...quantum mechanics were established during the first half of the twentieth century by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg Werner Heisenberg], [ht ...1985). Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-87373-X.
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• Apocalypse
  ...first half of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Century 2d Christian century], apocalyptic [[writing]] completely replaced the older [[prophetic]] style "Apocalyptic." New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 545-547. Gale Virtual Reference
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• Roman law
  ...e law that was applied throughout most of Europe until the end of the 18th century. In some countries like [[Germany]] the practical application of Roman law ...n the early [[Roman Republic|Republic]], dating from the middle of the 5th century BC. According to Roman historians, the plebeian tribune C. Terentilius Arsa
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• Oracle of Delphi
  ...the worship of [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]], in the last quarter of the [[8th century BC]] there is a steady increase of artifacts found at the settlement site i ...to that of [[Dodona]]: both Aeschylus and Euripides, writing in the fifth century, attribute to primeval times the same methods as used at Delphi in their ow
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• Science fiction
  ...ge de la Terre à la Lune and Des états de la Lune et du Soleil in the 17th century. Following the Age of Reason and the development of modern science itself, ...about a flight to the moon.[29] More examples appeared throughout the 19th century.
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• Remote Viewing
  ...of psychic [[phenomena]] by major scientists started in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included [[Michael Faraday]], Alfred Russel Wallace, Ruf ...alleged psychics, as had been the case with the studies in the nineteenth century. The initial goal of these studies was to try and determine, by technical m
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• Academic
  ...oss generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, [[England|English]] and [[France|French]] religious scholars popularized t ...he mid-eighteenth century and [[Thomas Jefferson]] in the early nineteenth century. In the United States academia tends to be politically progressive with 72%
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• Books
  ...y them out. At Nineveh, 22,000 tablets were found, dating from the seventh century BC; this was the archive and library of the kings of Assyria, who had works ...sacred texts were deposited (such as the Book of the Dead, from the early 2nd millennium BC).
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• Clairvoyance
  ...'''clairvoyance''' (from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 17th century] French with clair [[meaning]] "clear" and voyance meaning "[[vision]]") is ...his behavior is somewhat reminiscent of the reported behaviors of the 20th century medical clairvoyant and psychic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
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• Secularism
  ...and with secularization as a sociological or historical process. Twentieth-century scholars whose work has contributed to the understanding of these matters i ...ck, Owen (1975). The Secularization of the European mind in the nineteenth century. Cambridge University Press.
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