Occultism In A Global Perspective
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Author |
: Henrik Bogdan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2014-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317544463 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317544463 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Occultism in a Global Perspective by : Henrik Bogdan
The study of the ideas and practices associated with occultism is a rapidly growing branch of contemporary scholarship. However, most research has focused on English and French speaking areas and has not addressed the wider spread and significance of occultism. Occultism in a Global Perspective presents a broad international overview. Essays range across the German magical order of the Fraternitas Saturni, esoteric Satanism in Denmark, sexual magic in Colombia and the reception of occultism in modern Turkey, India and the former Yugoslavia. As any other form of cultural practice, the occult is not isolated from its social, discursive, religious, and political environment. By studying occultism in its global context, the book offers insights into the reciprocal relationships that colour and shape regional occultism.
Author |
: Henrik Bogdan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2014-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317544470 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317544471 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Occultism in a Global Perspective by : Henrik Bogdan
The study of the ideas and practices associated with occultism is a rapidly growing branch of contemporary scholarship. However, most research has focused on English and French speaking areas and has not addressed the wider spread and significance of occultism. Occultism in a Global Perspective presents a broad international overview. Essays range across the German magical order of the Fraternitas Saturni, esoteric Satanism in Denmark, sexual magic in Colombia and the reception of occultism in modern Turkey, India and the former Yugoslavia. As any other form of cultural practice, the occult is not isolated from its social, discursive, religious, and political environment. By studying occultism in its global context, the book offers insights into the reciprocal relationships that colour and shape regional occultism.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2020-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004446458 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004446451 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism by :
This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly "Western" undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ritual traditions that go back to Mediterranean antiquity, this book argues for a global approach that significantly expands the scope of esotericism and highlights its relevance for broader theoretical and methodological debates in the humanities and social sciences. The contributors offer critical interventions on aspects related to colonialism, race, gender and sexuality, economy, and marginality. Equipped with a substantial introduction and conclusion, the book offers textbook-style discussions of the state of research and makes concrete proposals for how esotericism can be rethought through broader engagement with neighboring fields.
Author |
: Lukas Pokorny |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 442 |
Release |
: 2021-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030553180 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030553183 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Occult Nineteenth Century by : Lukas Pokorny
The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later generations of thinkers and practitioners. Penned by specialists in the field, this volume examines important themes and figures pertaining to this occult amalgam and its resonance into the twentieth century and beyond. Global guises of the occult, ranging from the Americas and Europe to India, are variously addressed, with special attention to the crucial role of mesmerism and the origins of modern yoga.
Author |
: Mircea Eliade |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 161 |
Release |
: 1978-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226203928 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226203921 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions by : Mircea Eliade
Six essays on a variety of interrelated subjects.
Author |
: Dion Fortune |
Publisher |
: Youcanprint |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2017-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788892648982 |
ISBN-13 |
: 8892648985 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sane Occultism by : Dion Fortune
Contents - I. What Is Occultism? - II. Is Occultism Worth While? - III. The Deeper Issues Of Occultism. - IV. Credulity In Occult Research - V. Meditation And Psychism - VI. The Use And Abuse Of Astrology - VII. Records Of Past Lives - VIII. Numerology And Prophecy - IX. Group Karma In Occult Societies - X. Authority And Obedience In Occultism - XI. Secrecy In Occult Fraternities - XII. The Left-Hand Path - XIII. Occultism And Immorality - XIV. Psychic Pathologies - XV. Mental Trespassing - XVI. Occultism And Vegetarianism - XVII. Eastern Methods And Western Bodies - XVIII. Standards Of Judgment - XIX. The Ideals Of Occultism
Author |
: G. Djurdjevic |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2014-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1349487554 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781349487554 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis India and the Occult by : G. Djurdjevic
India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality among Western occultists through case studies. Rather than focusing on the activities of Theosophical Society, India and the Occult looks at the 'hard-core' occultism, in particular the British 20th century currents associated with Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Grant, etc.
Author |
: Yves Mühlematter |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2021-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110660333 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110660334 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Occult Roots of Religious Studies by : Yves Mühlematter
The historiographers of religious studies have written the history of this discipline primarily as a rationalization of ideological, most prominently theological and phenomenological ideas: first through the establishment of comparative, philological and sociological methods and secondly through the demand for intentional neutrality. This interpretation caused important roots in occult-esoteric traditions to be repressed. This process of “purification” (Latour) is not to be equated with the origin of the academic studies. De facto, the elimination of idealistic theories took time and only happened later. One example concerning the early entanglement is Tibetology, where many researchers and respected chair holders were influenced by theosophical ideas or were even members of the Theosophical Society. Similarly, the emergence of comparatistics cannot be understood without taking into account perennialist ideas of esoteric provenance, which hold that all religions have a common origin. In this perspective, it is not only the history of religious studies which must be revisited, but also the partial shaping of religious studies by these traditions, insofar as it saw itself as a counter-model to occult ideas.
Author |
: Henrik Bogdan |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780791480106 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0791480100 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation by : Henrik Bogdan
For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry—the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation—Bogdan examines the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—the most influential of all nineteenth-century occultist initiatory societies—and Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large-scale Western esoteric New Religions Movements.
Author |
: Sofie Lachapelle |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2011-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421401171 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421401177 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Investigating the Supernatural by : Sofie Lachapelle
“A convincing account of science’s flirtation with the marginal and the marvelous” from the author of Conjuring Science (Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences). Séances were wildly popular in France between 1850 and 1930, when members of the general public and scholars alike turned to the wondrous as a means of understanding and explaining the world. Sofie Lachapelle explores how five distinct groups attempted to use and legitimize séances: spiritists, who tried to create a new “science” concerned with the spiritual realm and the afterlife; occultists, who hoped to connect ancient revelations with contemporary science; physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists, who developed a pathology of supernatural experiences; psychical researchers, who drew on the unexplained experiences of the public to create a new field of research; and metapsychists, who attempted to develop a new science of yet-to-be understood natural forces. An enlightening and entertaining narrative that includes colorful people like “Allan Kardec”—a pseudonymous former mathematics teacher from Lyon who wrote successful works on the science of the séance and what happened after death—Investigating the Supernatural reveals the rich and vibrant diversity of unorthodox beliefs and practices that existed at the borders of the French scientific culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “What is science? . . . In her engaging book, Sophie Lachapelle probes for an answer by looking at the liminal realm between science and superstition and the attempt to render the supernatural explicable in naturalistic terms.” —Isis “A welcome addition to the growing literature on spiritism, occultism and physical research in modern France.” —French History