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Experiencing the numinous with fear and joy
Detail of Religion, a mural in lunette from the Family and Education series...
Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-highsm-02028)
Rudolf Otto
The phrase mysterium tremendum et fascinans first appears in Otto's book...
Foto-Jannasch, Marburg/Art Resource, New York
Mircea Eliade
Phenomenologist of religion Mircea Eliade.
Courtesy of the University of Chicago
The mysterious art of the numinous
Salvador Dalí's artwork Oeillet mystique (Mystical Carnation),...
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