Mystics, Oracles, and Bones: Spiritual Resistance for Justice, Healing, and Resolution.
This conceptual essay examines the enduring human impulse to seek meaning, justice, and healing through mystical traditions in response to suffering and harm. When traditional solutions through grievance, the law, or mediation fails, some individuals may turn to spiritual practices not as superstiti...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Civilizations Review Vol. 94; no. 94; pp. 182 - 199 |
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International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Spring2026
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