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Introduction. Western Esotericism And Polemics
2007This introductory chapter provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in this volume on religious polemics. The volume deals with a specific subset of such responses, as they have taken place within the religiously plural European milieu: polemics involving discourses and practices associated with western esotericism.
Hammer, Olav, von Stuckrad, Kocku
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Reading Western Esotericism: George Gurdjieff and His “Cunning” Esotericism
Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 2020Studies of western esotericism in the twentieth century proposed a certain number of characteristics as fundamental and universal to esotericism. This article first reviews Antoine Faivre’s intrinsic and extrinsic characteristics and Wouter J. Hanegraaff’s typology of esotericism, constituting the so-called empirical historical method.
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2023
While the scope and content of a bibliographical entry generally depends on the author’s understanding of the subject at hand, the meaning of “esotericism” is particularly unclear and contested. The term is used in highly varied ways across diverse disciplines and fields of study.
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While the scope and content of a bibliographical entry generally depends on the author’s understanding of the subject at hand, the meaning of “esotericism” is particularly unclear and contested. The term is used in highly varied ways across diverse disciplines and fields of study.
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Afterword – Global Esotericism
Method & Theory in the Study of ReligionAbstract In this afterword, the directors of the Center for Advanced Studies ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’ (CAS-E) at Friedrich- Alexander-Universität offer a brief response to the comments by Carole Cusack, Mark Q. Gardiner, Steven Engler, Wouter Hanegraaff, Elizabeth McAlister, Jason Josephson Storm, and
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Aries, 2018
The Haskalah, or “Jewish Enlightenment,” is often considered to be a secularizing trend within modern European Judaism. Yet as recent studies have begun to show, this characterization ignores the Romantic and religious attitudes of many Haskalah authors (maskilim).
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The Haskalah, or “Jewish Enlightenment,” is often considered to be a secularizing trend within modern European Judaism. Yet as recent studies have begun to show, this characterization ignores the Romantic and religious attitudes of many Haskalah authors (maskilim).
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Esotericism and Egalitarianism
Political Theory, 2016According to Leo Strauss, one of the primary purposes of the esotericism practiced by philosophers is the defense against persecution. This defense entails communicating the truth only to philosophers and concealing it from non-philosophers. For many commentators, this conception of esotericism has inegalitarian implications—for example, that the ...
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Deconstructing ‘Western esotericism’: on Wouter Hanegraaff'sEsotericism and the Academy
Religion, 2013This paper discusses a number of consequences that – although not always intended by the author – can be drawn from the radically historicist approach adopted by Wouter J. Hanegraaff in his monograph Esotericism and the Academy. These consequences are the atomization of ‘esotericism’ into a disparate range of ideas, practices, and currents with few if ...
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Perspectives on Political Science, 2015
AbstractArthur Melzer's Philosophy Between the Lines establishes the historical reality of esotericism, or at least the reputation for it, throughout Western and Islamic philosophy until late modernity. But Melzer wants to do much more than that: to establish that there is a whole new world of philosophy to uncover and explore, thus to promote the ...
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AbstractArthur Melzer's Philosophy Between the Lines establishes the historical reality of esotericism, or at least the reputation for it, throughout Western and Islamic philosophy until late modernity. But Melzer wants to do much more than that: to establish that there is a whole new world of philosophy to uncover and explore, thus to promote the ...
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2010
Acknowledgements Introduction Laurence Wuidar PART ONE EARLY MODERN OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AND MUSIC Music and Magnetism, from Abu Ma'shar to Kircher Charles Burnett Le medecin et les sons : Musique et magie dans Le Livre des eschez amoureux moralises d'Evrart de Conty Amandine Mussou Prophecy, Harmony, and the Alchemical Transformation of the Soul: The Key ...
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Acknowledgements Introduction Laurence Wuidar PART ONE EARLY MODERN OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AND MUSIC Music and Magnetism, from Abu Ma'shar to Kircher Charles Burnett Le medecin et les sons : Musique et magie dans Le Livre des eschez amoureux moralises d'Evrart de Conty Amandine Mussou Prophecy, Harmony, and the Alchemical Transformation of the Soul: The Key ...
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