LEADER 04855nam 22005052 450 001 9910794078703321 005 20201214111352.0 010 $a90-485-4285-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048542857 035 $a(CKB)4100000010348421 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6118550 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789048542857 035 $a(DE-B1597)545122 035 $a(OCoLC)1143619257 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048542857 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010348421 100 $a20201022d2019|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aHermes explains $ethirty questions about western esotericism : celebrating the 20th anniversary of the centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam /$fedited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Peter J. Forshaw and Marco Pasi$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Dec 2020). 311 $a94-6372-020-0 327 $tAren't we living in a desenchanted world? /$rEgil Asprem --$tEsotericism, that's for white folks, right? /$rJustine M. Bakker --$tSurely modern art is not occult? It is modern! /$rTessel M. Bauduin --$tIs it true that secret societies are trying to control the world? /$rHenrik Bogdan --$tNumbers are meant for counting, right? /$rJean-Pierre Brach --$tWasn't Hermes a prophet of Christianity who lived long before Christ? /$rRoelof van den Broek --$tWeren't early Christians up against a gnostic religion? /$rDylan M. Burns --$tThere's not much room for women in esotericism, right? /$rAllison P. Coudert --$tImagination... You mean fantasy, right? /$rAntoine Faivre --$tWeren't medieval monks afraid of demons? /$rClaire Fanger --$tWhat does popular fiction have to do with the occult? /$rChristine Ferguson --$tIsn't alchemy a spiritual tradition? /$rPeter J. Forshaw --$tMusic? What does that have to do with esotericism? /$rJoscelyn Godwin --$tWhy all that satanist stuff in heavy metal? /$rKennet Granholm --$tReligion can't be a joke, right? /$rJ. Christian Greer --$tIsn't esotericism irrational? /$rOlav Hammer --$tRejected knowledge... so you mean that esotericists are the losers of history? /$rWouter J. Hanegraaff --$tKind of stuff Madonna talks about - that's not real kabbala, is it? /$rBoaz Huss --$tShouldn't evil cults that woship satan be illegal? /$rMassimo Introvigne --$tIs occultism a product of capitalism? /$rAndreas B. Kilcher --$tCan superhero comics really transmit esoteric knowledge? /$rJeffrey J. Kripal --$tAre kabbalistic meditations all about ecstasy? /$rJohn MacMurphy --$tIsn't India the home of spiritual wisdom? /$rMriganka Mukhopadhyay --$tIf people believe in magic, isn't that just because they aren't educated? /$rBernd-Christian Otto --$tBut what does esotericism have to do with sex? /$rMarco Pasi --$tIs there such a thing as Islamic estoericism? /$rMark Sedgwick --$tA man who never died, angels falling from the sky... What is that Enoch stuff all about? /$rGyo?rgy E. Szo?nyi --$tIs there any room for women in Jewish kabbalah? /$rElliot R. Wolfson --$tSurely born-again Christianity has nothing to do with occult stuff like alchemy? /$rMike A. Zuber. 330 $aFew fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism. For twenty years now, the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (University of Amsterdam) has been at the forefront of international scholarship in this domain. This anniversary volume seeks to make the modern study of Western esotericism known beyond specialist circles, while addressing a range of misconceptions, biases, and prejudices that still tend to surround it. Thirty major scholars in the field respond to questions about a wide range of unfamiliar ideas, traditions, practices, problems, and personalities that are central to this area of research. By challenging many taken-for-granted assumptions about religion, science, philosophy, and the arts, this volume demonstrates why the academic study of esotericism leads us to reconsider much that we thought we knew about the story of Western culture. 517 3 $aThirty questions about western esotericism 606 $aOccultism 610 $aOccultism. 610 $aSpirituality. 610 $aWestern esotericism. 615 0$aOccultism. 676 $a133 702 $aHanegraaff$b Wouter J. 702 $aForshaw$b Peter J. 702 $aPasi$b Marco 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794078703321 996 $aHermes explains$93797766 997 $aUNINA