Gnostic Countercultures

Terror and Intrigue

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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In Gnostic Countercultures, fourteen scholars investigate countercultural aspects associated with the gnostic which is broadly conceived with reference to the claim to have special knowledge of the divine, which either transcends or transgresses conventional religious knowledge. The papers explore the concept of the gnostic in Western culture from the ancient world to the modern New Age. Contributors trace the emergence, persistence, and disappearance of gnostic religious currents that are perceived to be countercultural, inverted, transgressive and/or subversive in their relationship to conventional religions and their claims to knowledge. The essays represent a selection of the papers delivered at the international congress Gnostic Countercultures: Terror and Intrigue convened at Rice University, March 26-28, 2015. The essays were originally published in Gnosis 1.1-2 (2016) and are available for the first time under separate cover.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:527 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:332
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004436985

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April D. DeConick, Ph.D. (1994, University of Michigan), is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Rice University. She has published extensively on early Christianity, esotericism, mysticism, and Gnosticism, including The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today (Columbia University Press, 2016).Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Ph.D. (1997, University Complutense; 2004, University of Groningen) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Groningen. He is the author of numerous studies on Greco-Roman Philosophy; Early Christianity, Early Christian Apocrypha, Gnosticism, and Plutarch of Chaeronea.

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ContentsIntroductionPart 1: AntiquityThe Countercultural Gnostic: Turning the World Upside Down and Inside OutApril D. DeConick“I Turned away from the Temple”: Sethian Counterculture in the Apocryphon of JohnGrant AdamsonTransgressing Boundaries: Plotinus and the Gnostics John D. TurnerForbidden Knowledge: Cognitive Transgression and “Ascent Above Intellect” in the Debate Between Plotinus and the GnosticsZeke MazurThe Apocalypse of Paul (NHC V,2): Cosmology, Anthropology, and EthicsLautaro Roig LanzillottaGnosis Undomesticated: Archon-Seduction, Demon Sex, and Sodomites in the Paraphrase of Shem (NHC VII,1)Dylan M. Burns Gnostic Self-Deification: The Case of Simon of SamariaM. David LitwaDemon est Deus Inversus: Honoring the Daemonic in Iamblichean TheurgyGregory ShawThe Coming of the Star-Child: The Reception of the Revelation of the Magi in New Age Religious Thought and UfologyBrent LandauPart 2: ModernityThe Great God PanSarah Iles JohnstonAlan Moore’s Promethea: Countercultural Gnosis and the End of the WorldWouter J. HanegraaffChildren of the Light: Gnostic Fiction and Gnostic Practice in Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice TrilogyVictoria NelsonSymbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of GnosticismMatthew J. DillonGnostic and Countercultural Elements in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Hoodoo in America”Margarita Simon GuilloryIndex 317