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Between Occultism and Nazism
Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race in the Fascist Era
Inbunden, 2014
3191 kr
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The relationship between Nazism and occultism has been an object of fascination and speculation for decades. Peter Staudenmaier’s Between Occultism and Nazism provides a detailed historical examination centered on the anthroposophist movement founded by Rudolf Steiner. Its surprising findings …
Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom
Alchemy and Apocalyptic Discourse in the Protestant Reformation
Inbunden, 2006
2804 kr
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This study positions Paracelsian alchemy, medicine and medical physiology within the apocalyptic discourse of the Protestant Reformation. A comparison is made between alchemical theory concerning the perfectibility of prime matter and Christian eschatological doctrine concerning human salvation …
Religion und arkane Hierarchie
Der Orden der Gold- und Rosenkreuzer als Geheime Kirche im 18. Jahrhundert
Inbunden, 2007
4017 kr
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This volume examines the history of the 18th-Century secret order of the Golden Rosicrucians (Gold- und Rosenkreuzer), one of the most mysterious, exclusive and successful Masonic societies in the German speaking countries of that time. The order and its esoteric roots have so far never been …
Polemical Encounters
Esoteric Discourse and Its Others
Av Olav Hammer, Kocku von Stuckrad
Inbunden, 2007
2948 kr
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In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie both the identities within and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history. From …
Hidden Intercourse
Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism
Av Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Jeffrey Kripal
Inbunden, 2008
3847 kr
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From rumours about gnostic orgies in antiquity to the explicit erotic symbolism of alchemical texts, from the subtly coded eroticism of medieval kabbalah to the sexual magic practiced by contemporary occultists and countercultural translations of Asian Tantra, the history of Western esotericism is …
Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders
Av Alexandra Heidle, J.A.M. Snoek
Inbunden, 2008
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3613 kr
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Women have been structurally part of the masonic enterprise from at least the middle of the 18th century. Yet, little is known about the ways in which they themselves obtained and exercised power to influence the systems they were involved in, in order to adapt them to be more appropriate to their …
Music and Esotericism
Inbunden, 2010
2540 kr
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This collection of essays analyzes the relationships that exist between esotericism and music from Antiquity to the 20th century, investigating ways in which magic, astrology, alchemy, divination, and cabbala interact with music. The volume seeks to dissolve artificial barriers between the history …
Kabbalah and Modernity
Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations
Inbunden, 2010
3183 kr
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The persistence of kabbalistic groups in the twentieth century has largely been ignored or underestimated by scholars of religion. Only recently have scholars began to turn their attention to the many-facetted roles that kabbalistic doctrines and schools have played in nineteenth- and …
Constructing Tradition
Means and Myths of Transmission in Western Esotericism
Inbunden, 2010
3104 kr
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The question of constructing tradition, concepts of origin, and memory as well as techniques and practices of knowledge transmission, are central for cultures in general. In esotericism, however, such questions and techniques play an outstanding role and are widely reflected upon, in its …
Initiating Women in Freemasonry
The Adoption Rite
Av J.A.M. Snoek
Inbunden, 2011
3930 kr
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Freemasonry is generally regarded a male phenomenon. Yet, both before 1723 and since 1744, women were initiated as well. This book is about the rituals, used for the initiation of women in the Adoption Lodges, since the middle of the 18th century. It describes their contents, roots and creation …
Petrine Instauration
Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725
Inbunden, 2011
4277 kr
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The reign of Peter the Great (1672-1725) was marked by an unprecedented wave of reform in Russia. This book provides an innovative reappraisal of the Petrine Age, in which hitherto neglected aspects of the tsar’s transformation of his country are studied. More specifically, the reforms enacted by …
Aurora (Morgen Röte im auffgang, 1612) and Fundamental Report (Gründlicher Bericht, Mysterium Pansophicum, 1620)
Translation, Introduction, Commentary
Av Andrew Weeks
Inbunden, 2013
5370 kr
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Jacob Boehme’s Aurora (Morgen Röte im auffgang, 1612) exercised a vast open or underground influence on popular and mystical religion, poetry, and philosophy from Germany to England to Russia. This beautiful and highly original work containing elements of alchemical, esoteric, and anticlerical …
Esotericism in African American Religious Experience
"There Is a Mystery"...
Inbunden, 2014
3052 kr
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In Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There is a Mystery” …, Stephen C. Finley, Margarita Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr. assemble twenty groundbreaking essays that provide a rationale and parameters for Africana Esoteric Studies (AES): a new trans-disciplinary enterprise …
Lux in Tenebris
The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism
Inbunden, 2016
3114 kr
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Lux in Tenebris is a collection of eighteen original interdisciplinary essays that address aspects of the verbal and visual symbolism in the works of significant figures in the history of Western Esotericism, covering such themes as alchemy, magic, kabbalah, angels, occult philosophy, Platonism, …
Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams
Av Aren Roukema
Inbunden, 2018
3928 kr
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Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams situates the life and fiction of the Inkling Charles Williams in the network of modern occultism, with special focus on his initiatory experiences in A.E. Waite’s Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. Aren Roukema evaluates fictional …
Jacob Böhme and His World
Av Bo Andersson, Lucinda Martin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
3326 kr
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Jacob Böhme (1575–1624) is famous as a shoemaker and spiritual author. His works and thought are frequently studied as a product of his mystical illumination. Jacob Böhme and His World adopts a different perspective. It seeks to demystify Böhme by focusing on aspects of his immediate cultural and …
Ficino and Fantasy
Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo
Inbunden, 2021
3036 kr
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Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? Art historians have been fiercely debating this question for decades. This book starts with Ficino’s views on the imagination as a faculty of the soul, and shows how these ideas were part of a long philosophical …
Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination
Inbunden, 2021
3222 kr
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To what extent were practitioners of magic inspired by fictional accounts of their art? In how far did the daunting narratives surrounding legendary magicians such as Theophilus of Adana, Cyprianus of Antioch, Johann Georg Faust or Agrippa of Nettesheim rely on real-world events or practices? …
Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult
Hermetic Discourse and Romantic Contiguity
Av Simon Magus
Inbunden, 2021
3104 kr
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In Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult, Simon Magus offers the first academic monograph on the world of occult thought which lies behind and beneath the fictional writing of H. Rider Haggard. It engages with a broad scope of religious, philosophical and anthropological ideas. Many of these were …
Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucian Revival in Britain
1648–1666
Inbunden, 2022
3013 kr
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The first scholarly book on Thomas Vaughan (1621–1666) draws from recent studies in Western esotericism to place his famously difficult writings in their proper context. It shows that they develop themes from a distinctively Rosicrucian synthesis of alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala. Vaughan …
Esotericism and Deviance
Av Manon White
Inbunden, 2023
2489 kr
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Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism is the first professional academic book series specifically devoted to a long-neglected but now rapidly developing domain of research in the humanities, usually referred to as “Western Esotericism”. This field covers a variety of …
Satanism: A Social History
Häftad, 2024
1227 kr
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A 17th-century French haberdasher invented the Black Mass. An 18th-century English Cabinet Minister administered the Eucharist to a baboon. High-ranking Catholic authorities in the 19th century believed that Satan appeared in Masonic lodges in the shape of a crocodile and played the piano there. A …
Apophasis and Envisioning the Invisible
Unveiling Veils of Infinity
Inbunden, 2026
3226 kr
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In this monograph, two of the most complicated theoretical topics confronting the scholar of mysticism (apophasis and infinity) are tackled. Writing about apophasis presents a unique dilemma as the term itself connotes the inability of language to name the namelessness of ultimate reality. Yet, the …
Enchanted Socialist Modernity
Art of Central and Eastern Europe (1945–1989) in the Face of Alternative Spirituality
Inbunden, 2025
4173 kr
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Central and Eastern Europe, a meeting place of diverse cultural traditions, remains a little-known area in terms of the relationship between art, spirituality and modernity. This pioneering book aims to change this situation. It was written in response to the question of what role alternative forms …
