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  • Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural History

    Discover a cross-journal special feature from Library & Information History and Archives of Natural History.

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Five Types of Mysticism: Religious Culture in the Age of Modernism

by Jamie Callison Ask for a description of a mystic or a follower of mysticism, and you might be greeted with a portrait of an otherworldly recluse speaking in riddles and perhaps evincing some unusual physical symptoms like those found…

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