Esotericism and Deviance

Manon Hedenborg White, Tim Rudbøg (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

442 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54974-6 (ISBN)

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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 new domain of research in the humanities, usually referred to as “Western Esotericism”.

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 “alternative” currents in western religious history, including so-called “hermetic philosophy” and related currents in the early modern period; alchemy, paracelsianism and rosicrucianism; Jewish and Christian kabbalah and its later developments; theosophical and illuminist currents; and various occultist and related developments during the 19th and 20th centuries, up to and including popular contemporary currents such as the New Age movement.

Published under the auspices of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).

For the journal Aries - Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism please click here.

The series has published an average of two volumes per year over the last five years.

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Or, What We Talk about When We Talk about Deviance

Manon Hedenborg White and Tim Rudbøg

Part 1

Theorizing Deviance

1 On the Social Organization of Rejected Knowledge Reassessing the Sociology of the Occult

Egil Asprem

2 On the Concept of a Deviant Movement

Olav Hammer

3 Disrupting Sanctified Deviance The Benefits of Boredom

Jay Johnston

4 “The Judges of Normality Are Everywhere” Has Esotericism and the Ideas of H. P. Blavatsky’s Ever Been Normal?

Tim Rudbøg

Part 2

Historical Cases

5 Constructions of Religious Deviance in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Richard Gordon

6 The Deviance of Toz The Reception of Toz Graecus and Magical Works Attributed to Toz in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Lauri Ockenström

7 Forgotten Knowledge, Deviance and Esotericism The Eternally Burning Lamps of Fortunio Liceti

Martin Mulsow

8 Strategic Deviance and Conflicting Loyalties The Spiritualist Interests of Bishop Ghenadie Petrescu (1836–1918)

Ionuț Daniel Băncilă

9 Jewish Kabbalah, Christian Onomatodoxy (Imyaslavie) and Theological Flexibility in Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Konstantin Burmistrov

10 Vasily V. Nalimov – A Scientist, Philosopher and “Mystical Anarchist” from Komi

Birgit Menzel

11 Haṭhayoga as “Black Magic” in Early Theosophy and Beyond

Keith E. Cantú

12 Philology as an Epistemological Strategy to Claim Higher Knowledge Translational Endeavors within the Theosophical Society; A Case Study of Annie Besant’s Bhagavad-Gita

Yves Mühlematter

13 “I Would Not Have Left Your Platform Had I Not Been Compelled” Annie Besant’s Exclusion from the National Secular Society (1891)

Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

14 Dismissing the Occult The Links between Esoteric Currents and French Homeopathic Medicine during the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Léo Bernard

15 The Devil’s Popess The French Reception of Maria de Naglowska (1883–1936) in the Early 1930s

Michele Olzi

16 Confessions of a Persian Opium Smoker Sadegh Hedayat, Esotericism, and The Blind Owl

Kurosh Amoui

17 Fernando Pessoa’s Multiple Esoteric Deviances

Fabio Mendia

Part 3

Concluding Remarks

18 Afterword Rejected Knowledge as a Liberal Art

Joscelyn Godwin

Editors’ Conclusion

Manon Hedenborg White and Tim Rudbøg

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Aries Book Series ; 33
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	884 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	90-04-54974-9 / 9004549749
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54974-6 / 9789004549746
Zustand	Neuware