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Title Innovation in esotericism from the Renaissance to the present / Georgiana D. Hedesan, Tim Rudbøg, editors
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave studies in new religions and alternative spiritualities
Palgrave studies in new religions and alternative spiritualities.
Contents Chapter 1: Angela Voss (Canterbury Christ Church University): Diligentia et divina sorte Oracular Intelligence in Marsilio Ficinos Astral Magic' -- Chapter 2: Georgiana D. Hedesan (University of Oxford): The Rise of the Term Adept in Esoteric Usage: From Arabic Philosophy to Early Modern Alchemy -- Chapter 3: Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam): A Necessary Conjunction: Cabala, Magic and Alchemy in the Theosophy of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605 -- Chapter 4: Christopher McIntosh (University of Bremen): The Rosicrucian Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 5: Judith Mawer (University of Exeter): Thomas Vaughans Magia Adamica (1650): A Vindication of Magic and Magicians. Chapter 6: Jonathan Barry (University of Exeter): John Henderson (1757-1788) and the Changing Attitudes to the Occult in Enlightenment England -- Chapter 7: Jean-Pierre Brach (Paris-Sorbonne): Psychic Disciplines: The Magnetizer as Magician in the Writings of Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy (1796-1881) -- Chapter 8: Tim Rudbg (University of Copenhagen): H.P. Blavatskys Wisdom Religion and the Quest for Ancient Wisdom in Western Culture -- Chapter 9: Julie Chajes (Tel Aviv University): Orientalist Aggregates: Theosophical Buddhism between Innovation and Tradition -- Chapter 9: Jeffrey D. Lavoie (Middlesex Community College): Theosophical Chronology in the Writings of Guido von List (18481919): A Link between H.P. Blavatskys Philosophy and the Nazi Movement -- Chapter 10: Antoine Faivre (University of Paris-Sorbonne): On the Various Uses of the Tarot -- Chapter 11: Joscelyn Godwin (Colgate University), Afterword
Summary This collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism. It illustrates how innovation is a mechanism of negotiation whereby an idea is either produced against, or adapted from, an older set of concepts in order to respond to a present context. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, it covers many different fields and themes including magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Tarot, apocalypticism and eschatology, Mesmerism, occultism, prophecy, and mysticism
Subject Cults -- History
Occultism -- History
Cults
Occultism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hedesan, Georgiana D., editor.
Rudbøg, Tim, editor.
ISBN 9783030679064
3030679063