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 |
|