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Western Esotericism in Brazil [PDF]
Nova Religio, 2020 The Brazilian religion known as the Valley of the Dawn is an international new religious movement known for its eclectic cosmology and collective rituals performed by adepts dressed in ornate garments. Headquartered outside of Brasília, the Valley of the Dawn was founded in the 1960s by Neiva Chaves Zelaya (1925–85) a clairvoyant medium affectionately ...
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 Often, when people nowadays talk of ‘esotericism’, they are using this word either as more or less synonymous with ‘New Age’, or as a term for movements that are based on a secret wisdom that is only accessible to an ‘inner circle’ of initiates.
Kocku von Stuckrad
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Occult Influences on Luigi Capuana and Luigi Pirandello
Књижевна историја, 2021 Luigi Capuana (1839–1915) and Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) were two of the most important Italian writers who lived between the XIX and XX century.
Mauro Ruggiero
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Western Esotericism in Scandinavia [PDF]
, 2016 This is the first encyclopaedic work on Western esotericism in Scandinavia. Structured along the lines of the Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericsm (2005), it contains over 80 articles written by 47 specialists. It consists of critical overviews of all the major esoteric currents in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, ranging from Alchemy ...
Henrik Bogdan, Olav Hammer
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Research on esotericism in Scandinavia
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 The title of this paper can be understood in two senses. In the sense of ‘research on esotericism carried out by Scandinavian scholars’, the field is blossoming.
Henrik Bogdan, Olav Hammer
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Western Esotericism: A Cosmopolitan History and Historiography
Migrating Minds, 2023 From the 1950s onwards, the opening of the research field of the History of Religions to esoteric beliefs and practices worldwide was made possible by cosmopolitan, agnostic, and interdisciplinary positions that eventually responded to the constitutive ...
Schiavetta, Bernardo
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Esotericism throughout the centuries
Approaching Religion, 2018 Review of Wouter J. Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (Cambridge University, 2012).
Tommy Ramstedt
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W poszukiwaniu duchowej syntezy. Eksperymentalny tekst ezoteryczny z 1921 roku
Teksty Drugie, 2023 The small book titled Na skrzydłach szału (On the Wings of Madness) is a unique document related to the history of esotericism in interwar Poland. The original composition and specific narrative strategy employed by Jerzy Znamierowski, also known as ...
Monika Rzeczycka, Agata Świerzowska
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Gnosticism and esotericism: an example from Russian new religiosity
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 Time and again, the terms gnosticism and esotericism appear in connection with one another. Most esoteric teachings, for example, draw on the higher knowledge of the secrets of nature or deity.
Vadim Zhdanov
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Approaching Religion, 2018 Western esotericism appears to be a field most precarious in terms of positioning. This article will highlight the divide between ‘critics’ and ‘religionists’ from a pre-Enlightenment position by discussing René Descartes’ role within esotericism.
Tomas Mansikka
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