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The Concept of Human Self: George Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson

Correspondences, 2019
The Greco-Armenian spiritual master George I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) has remained an important figure in twentieth-century Western esoteric thought. Gurdjieff claimed that people do not have a stable self-identity or, more radically, a soul, but instead ...
Makhabbad Maltabarova
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New Age, new religious movements and the youth: Effects of derationalization of everyday consciousness in the post-secular society

RUDN journal of Sociology
The article considers history, prerequisites and consequences of the spread of New Age ideas and practices in contemporary society as a new form of spirituality that contributes to the emergence and spread of new religious movements (NRMs).
T. A. Khagurov, M. G. Rudakov
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Western Esotericism

This chapter provides a condensed and selective history of notions of gender and sexuality in (Western) esotericism, a complex of genealogically related religious currents originating in late antiquity, which emphasize an intuitive, experiential knowledge ("gnosis") beyond faith and rational enquiry.
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Islamic Esotericism in the Bengali Bāul Songs of Lālan Fakir

Correspondences, 2019
This article makes use of the author’s field research as well as primary and secondary textual sources to examine Islamic esoteric content, as mediated by local forms of Bengali Sufism, in Bāul Fakiri songs.
Keith Cantú
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Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture [PDF]

Nova Religio, 2014
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Book Review: The Return of the Perennial Philosophy: The Supreme Vision of Western Esotericism, by John Holman. [PDF]

Integral Review, 2009
Roland Benedikter
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“Western Esotericism” as a Sort of Eurocentrism

State Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide
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Introduction. Western Esotericism And Polemics

2007
This 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.
Olav Hammer, Kocku Von Stuckrad
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Seer Stones and Western Esotericism

2020
Chapter One contextualizes Joseph Smith's use of a "seer stone" to compose the Book of Mormon within contemporary folk magic practices, the philosophies of Western esotericism, and Christian occultism. The seer stone (sometimes described as a "Urim and Thummim") represented one of several folk magic practices that the Smith family pursued, most notably
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Sufism and Western Esotericism

2023
Patrick D Bowen
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