Spirituality and the Occult

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-24449-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 319 g

Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as:

* medicine
* science
* philosophy
* Freudian and Jungian psychology
* radical political movements
* imaginative literature.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibbons, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Nature in occult thought; Chapter 3 Science, magic and the occult; Chapter 4 The body in occult thought; Chapter 5 The body in health and death; Chapter 6 The mind in occult thought; Chapter 7 Occultism and analytical psychology; Chapter 8 Society, religion and history in occult thought; Chapter 9 The occult and Western culture; Notes Index;

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Gibbons is a lecturer in literature and cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. His main research interests are occult spiritualities andd seventeenth-century English Radicalism. He is the author of Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought: Behmenism and its Development in England (1998).