Metanoia
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Metanoia may refer to:
- Metanoia (theology), repentance
- Metanoia (rhetoric), correction, a rhetorical device
- Metanoia (psychology), the process of experiencing a psychotic "break down" and subsequent, positive psychological re-building or "healing"
[edit] In music
- Metanoia (Porcupine Tree album), released in 1998
- Metanoia (Yōsei Teikoku album), released in 2007
- "Metanoia" (song), a 2008 song by MGMT
- "Metanoia," a song by Gerry Rafferty on his 2000 album Another World
- "Metanoia," a song by The Human Abstract on their 2008 album Midheaven
- "Metanoia," a song by King Missile on their 1992 album Happy Hour
[edit] Etymology
The term derives from the Ancient Greek words μετά (metá) (meaning "beyond" or "after") and νόος (noeō) (meaning "perception" or "understanding" or "mind").
[edit] See also
- Metania, a form of bowing practiced in Eastern Orthodoxy
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