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Fictional practice : magic, narration, and the power of imagination / / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen
Fictional practice : magic, narration, and the power of imagination / / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Disciplina 133.4309
Collana Aries Book Series
Soggetto topico Magic - History
Literature and morals
Magic in literature - History
ISBN 90-04-46600-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction --   Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen -- 1 Magic as Pollution: Fictional Blasphemies and Ritual Realities in the Roman Period (1st cen. BCE-4th cen. C) --   Kyle Fraser -- 2 The Medieval Anti-Faust: Stories, Rituals, and Self-Representations in the Flowers of Heavenly Teaching --   Claire Fanger -- 3 Enchantment and Anger in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Later Folklore --   Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir -- 4 Narratives of the Witch, the Magician, and the Devil in Early Modern Grimoires --   Owen Davies -- 5 When Ritual Texts Become Legendary  Practice and Fiction in Nordic Folklore --   Ane Ohrvik -- 6 Magic and Literary Imagination in H. P. Blavatsky's Theosophy --   Marco Frenschkowski -- 7 The Emergence of Fictional Practice in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: W.B. Yeats' Talismanic Poetry --   Dirk Johannsen -- 8 "My Life in a Love Cult": Tantra, Orientalism, and Sex Magic in Early Twentieth-Century Fiction --   Hugh B. Urban -- 9 Drawing Down the Moon: From Classical Greece to Modern Wicca? --   Ethan Doyle White -- 10 Drinking from Hecate's Fountain: Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Trilogies and the Fusion Between Literature and Practiced Magic --   Christian Giudice -- 11 If One Knows Where to Look, Fiction is Magic: Reading Fictional Texts as Manuals of Magic in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus --   Kateryna Zorya -- 12 "Cthulhu Gnosis" Monstrosity, Selfhood, and Secular Re-Enchantment in Lovecraftian Occultural Practice --   Justin Woodman -- 13 A Magickal School in the Twenty-First Century: The Grey School of Wizardry and Its Prehistory --   Carole M. Cusack -- 14 Fictional Practice from Antiquity to Today --   Bernd-Christian Otto -- Index.
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Fictional practice : magic, narration, and the power of imagination / / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen
Fictional practice : magic, narration, and the power of imagination / / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Disciplina 133.4309
Collana Aries Book Series
Soggetto topico Magic - History
Literature and morals
Magic in literature - History
ISBN 90-04-46600-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction --   Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen -- 1 Magic as Pollution: Fictional Blasphemies and Ritual Realities in the Roman Period (1st cen. BCE-4th cen. C) --   Kyle Fraser -- 2 The Medieval Anti-Faust: Stories, Rituals, and Self-Representations in the Flowers of Heavenly Teaching --   Claire Fanger -- 3 Enchantment and Anger in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Later Folklore --   Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir -- 4 Narratives of the Witch, the Magician, and the Devil in Early Modern Grimoires --   Owen Davies -- 5 When Ritual Texts Become Legendary  Practice and Fiction in Nordic Folklore --   Ane Ohrvik -- 6 Magic and Literary Imagination in H. P. Blavatsky's Theosophy --   Marco Frenschkowski -- 7 The Emergence of Fictional Practice in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: W.B. Yeats' Talismanic Poetry --   Dirk Johannsen -- 8 "My Life in a Love Cult": Tantra, Orientalism, and Sex Magic in Early Twentieth-Century Fiction --   Hugh B. Urban -- 9 Drawing Down the Moon: From Classical Greece to Modern Wicca? --   Ethan Doyle White -- 10 Drinking from Hecate's Fountain: Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Trilogies and the Fusion Between Literature and Practiced Magic --   Christian Giudice -- 11 If One Knows Where to Look, Fiction is Magic: Reading Fictional Texts as Manuals of Magic in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus --   Kateryna Zorya -- 12 "Cthulhu Gnosis" Monstrosity, Selfhood, and Secular Re-Enchantment in Lovecraftian Occultural Practice --   Justin Woodman -- 13 A Magickal School in the Twenty-First Century: The Grey School of Wizardry and Its Prehistory --   Carole M. Cusack -- 14 Fictional Practice from Antiquity to Today --   Bernd-Christian Otto -- Index.
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Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2021]
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History and religion : narrating a religious past / / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto [and three others]
History and religion : narrating a religious past / / edited by Bernd-Christian Otto [and three others]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (472 p.)
Disciplina 201/.69
Collana Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten
Soggetto topico Religion - Historiography
Religion - History
History - Religious aspects
ISBN 3-11-043725-2
3-11-044595-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Table of Contents -- History and Religion -- Introduction -- The historiography of Brahmanism -- Construing ‘religion’ by doing historiography: The historicisation of religion in the Roman Republic -- The use of historiography in Paul: A case-study of the instrumentalisation of the past in the context of Late Second Temple Judaism -- Flirty fishing and poisonous serpents: Epiphanius of Salamis inside his Medical chest against heresies -- Reading sutras in biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks -- History and Heilsgeschichte in early Islam: Some observations on prophetic history and biography -- The development and formation of religious historiography in Tibet -- Medieval memories of the origins of the Waldensian movement -- The use of history by French Protestants and its impact on Protestant historiography -- Introduction -- A Perso-Islamic universal chronicle in its historical context: Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Khwāndamīr’s Ḥabīb al-siyar -- Conditions for historicising religion: Hindu saints, regional identity, and social change in western India, ca. 1600–1900 -- Practitioners of religious historiography in early modern Europe -- Impartiality, individualisation, and the historiography of religion: Tobias Pfanner on the rituals of the Ancient Church -- ‘The gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it’: The narrative of the victorious Church in French Church histories of the nineteenth century -- Conflicting historiographical claims in religiously plural societies -- Religion and economic development: On the role of religion in the historiography of political economy in twentieth century China -- Introduction -- The notion of tradition in liturgy -- Verbs, nouns, temporality and typology: Narrations of ritualised warfare in Roman Antiquity -- Judaism: An inquiry into the historical discourse -- President de Brosses’s modern and post-modern fetishes in the historiography and history of religions -- Historia sacra and historical criticism in biblical scholarship -- A Catholic ‘magician’ historicises ‘magic’: Éliphas Lévi’s Histoire de la Magie -- Locating the history of Christianity between the history of the Church and the History of Religions: The Italian case -- Contributors -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910341841003321
Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015
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Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe [[electronic resource] ] : The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections / / by Daniel Bellingradt, Bernd-Christian Otto
Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe [[electronic resource] ] : The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections / / by Daniel Bellingradt, Bernd-Christian Otto
Autore Bellingradt Daniel
Edizione [1st ed. 2017.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (VII, 166 p. 4 illus.)
Disciplina 002
Collana New Directions in Book History
Soggetto topico Books—History
Civilization—History
History of the Book
Cultural History
ISBN 3-319-59525-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Introduction -- 2. Exceptionality -- 3.Scarcity --  4.Illegality -- 5.Conclusions.-  6.Appendix A: The CATALOGUS RARIORUM MANUSCRIPTORUM -- 7. Appendix B: Images of the original catalogue (1710).-.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910255095403321
Bellingradt Daniel  
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
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Religious Individualisation : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives / / Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Martin Mulsow, Bernd-Christian Otto, Rahul Bjørn Parson, Jörg Rüpke
Religious Individualisation : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives / / Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Martin Mulsow, Bernd-Christian Otto, Rahul Bjørn Parson, Jörg Rüpke
Autore Fuchs Martin
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berlin/Boston, : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (1416)
Disciplina 204.4
Soggetto topico Religion & beliefs
Religion: general
History of religion
Sociology
Soggetto genere / forma History
Soggetto non controllato Individualisation
religious experience
self
theory of religion
ISBN 3-11-058085-3
3-11-058093-4
Classificazione BE 3350
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Religious Individualisation -- Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Volume 1 -- General introduction -- Part 1: Transcending selves -- Introduction: Transcending Selves -- Section 1.1: Relationships between selfhood and transcendence -- 'Vase of light': from the exceptional individuality to the individualisation process as influenced by Greek-Arabic cosmology in Albert the Great's Super Iohannem -- Self-transcendence in Meister Eckhart -- The inward sublime: Kant's aesthetics and the Protestant tradition -- Transcendence and freedom: on the anthropological and cultural centrality of religion -- Taking Job as an example. Kierkegaard: traces of religious individualization -- Suifaction: typological reflections on the evolution of the self -- Afterword: relationships between selfhood and transcendence -- Section 1.2: The social lives of religious individualisation -- 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house!' (Gen. 12:1): Schelling's Boehmian redefinition of idealism -- Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation -- Self-affirmation, self-transcendence and the relationality of selves: the social embedment of individualisation in bhakti -- Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: individualisation in early modern Punjab -- Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation -- Part 2: The dividual self -- Introduction: the dividual self -- Section 2.1: Dividual socialities -- The subject as totum potestativum in Albert the Great's OEuvre: cultural transfer and relational identity -- Monism and dividualism in Meister Eckhart -- The empathic subject and the question of dividuality -- Simmel and the forms of in-dividuality -- Afterword: dividual socialities -- Section 2.2: Parting the self -- Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry -- The good citizen and the heterodox self: turning to Protestantism and Anabaptism in 16th-century Venice -- Dividualisation and relational authorship: from the Huguenot République des lettres to practices of clandestine writing -- Disunited identity. Kierkegaard: traces towards dividuality -- Afterword: parting the self -- Section 2.3: Porosity, corporeality and the divine -- Paul's Letter to Philemon: a case study in individualisation, dividuation, and partibility in Imperial spatial contexts -- Self as other: distanciation and reflexivity in ancient Greek divination -- The swirl of worlds: possession, porosity and embodiment -- 'Greater love ...': Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood -- Challenging personhood: the subject and viewer of contemporary crucifixion iconography -- Afterword: porosity, corporeality and the divine -- Religious Individualisation Volume 2 -- Part 3: Conventions and contentions -- Introduction: conventions and contentions -- Section 3.1: Practices -- Religious individualisation in China: a two-modal approach -- Individuals in the Eleusinian Mysteries: choices and actions -- Institutionalisation of religious individualisation: asceticism in antiquity and late antiquity and the rejection of slavery and social injustice -- Lived religion and eucharistic piety on the Meuse and the Rhine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Migrant precarity and religious individualisation -- The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation -- Afterword: practices -- Section 3.2: Texts and narratives -- '... quod nolo, illud facio' (Romans 7:20): institutionalising the unstable self -- Individualisation, deindividualisation, and institutionalisation among the early Mahānubhāvs -- Religious individualisation and collective bhakti: Sarala Dasa and Bhima Bhoi -- Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās' Samayasāra Nāṭaka -- Subjects of conversion in colonial central India -- Many biographies - multiple individualities: the identities of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang -- Jewish emancipation, religious individualisation, and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus -- Afterword: texts and narratives -- Part 4: Authorities in religious individualisation -- Introduction: authorities in religious individualisation -- Section 4.1: Between hegemony & heterogeneity -- Subordinated religious specialism and individuation in the Graeco-Roman world -- Religion and the limits of individualisation in ancient Athens: Andocides, Socrates, and the fair-breasted Phryne -- Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic -- Singular individuals, conflicting authorities: Annie Besant and Mohandas Gandhi -- Being Hindu in India: culture, religion, and the Gita Press (1950) -- Individualised versus institutional religion: Is there a mediating position? -- Constructing a genuine religious character: the impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany -- Afterword: de- and neotraditionalisation -- Section 4.2: Pluralisation -- Religious plurality and individual authority in the Mahābhārata -- Ritual objects and religious communication in lived ancient religion: multiplying religion -- Institutionalisation of tradition and individualised lived Christian religion in Late Antiquity -- Early modern erudition and religious individualisation: the case of Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) -- Islamic mystical responses to hegemonic orthodoxy: the subcontinental perspective -- Afterword: pluralisation -- Section 4.3: Walking the edges -- Understanding 'prophecy': charisma, religious enthusiasm, and religious individualisation in the 17th century. A cross-cultural approach -- Out of bounds, still in control: exclusion, religious individuation and individualisation during the later Middle Ages -- The lonely antipope - or why we have difficulties classifying Pedro de Luna [Benedict XIII] as a religious individual -- Varieties of spiritual individualisation in the theosophical movement: the United Lodge of theosophists India as climax of individualisation-processes within the theosophical movement -- Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self -- Afterword: walking the edges -- Contributors
Record Nr. UNISA-996328047703316
Fuchs Martin  
Berlin/Boston, : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020
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Religious Individualisation : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives / / Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Martin Mulsow, Bernd-Christian Otto, Rahul Bjørn Parson, Jörg Rüpke
Religious Individualisation : Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives / / Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Martin Mulsow, Bernd-Christian Otto, Rahul Bjørn Parson, Jörg Rüpke
Autore Fuchs Martin
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berlin/Boston, : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (1416)
Disciplina 204.4
Soggetto topico Religion & beliefs
Religion: general
History of religion
Sociology
Soggetto genere / forma History
Soggetto non controllato Individualisation
religious experience
self
theory of religion
ISBN 3-11-058085-3
3-11-058093-4
Classificazione BE 3350
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Religious Individualisation -- Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Volume 1 -- General introduction -- Part 1: Transcending selves -- Introduction: Transcending Selves -- Section 1.1: Relationships between selfhood and transcendence -- 'Vase of light': from the exceptional individuality to the individualisation process as influenced by Greek-Arabic cosmology in Albert the Great's Super Iohannem -- Self-transcendence in Meister Eckhart -- The inward sublime: Kant's aesthetics and the Protestant tradition -- Transcendence and freedom: on the anthropological and cultural centrality of religion -- Taking Job as an example. Kierkegaard: traces of religious individualization -- Suifaction: typological reflections on the evolution of the self -- Afterword: relationships between selfhood and transcendence -- Section 1.2: The social lives of religious individualisation -- 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house!' (Gen. 12:1): Schelling's Boehmian redefinition of idealism -- Dining with the gods and the others: the banqueting tickets from Palmyra as expressions of religious individualisation -- Self-affirmation, self-transcendence and the relationality of selves: the social embedment of individualisation in bhakti -- Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: individualisation in early modern Punjab -- Afterword: the social lives of religious individualisation -- Part 2: The dividual self -- Introduction: the dividual self -- Section 2.1: Dividual socialities -- The subject as totum potestativum in Albert the Great's OEuvre: cultural transfer and relational identity -- Monism and dividualism in Meister Eckhart -- The empathic subject and the question of dividuality -- Simmel and the forms of in-dividuality -- Afterword: dividual socialities -- Section 2.2: Parting the self -- Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry -- The good citizen and the heterodox self: turning to Protestantism and Anabaptism in 16th-century Venice -- Dividualisation and relational authorship: from the Huguenot République des lettres to practices of clandestine writing -- Disunited identity. Kierkegaard: traces towards dividuality -- Afterword: parting the self -- Section 2.3: Porosity, corporeality and the divine -- Paul's Letter to Philemon: a case study in individualisation, dividuation, and partibility in Imperial spatial contexts -- Self as other: distanciation and reflexivity in ancient Greek divination -- The swirl of worlds: possession, porosity and embodiment -- 'Greater love ...': Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood -- Challenging personhood: the subject and viewer of contemporary crucifixion iconography -- Afterword: porosity, corporeality and the divine -- Religious Individualisation Volume 2 -- Part 3: Conventions and contentions -- Introduction: conventions and contentions -- Section 3.1: Practices -- Religious individualisation in China: a two-modal approach -- Individuals in the Eleusinian Mysteries: choices and actions -- Institutionalisation of religious individualisation: asceticism in antiquity and late antiquity and the rejection of slavery and social injustice -- Lived religion and eucharistic piety on the Meuse and the Rhine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Migrant precarity and religious individualisation -- The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation -- Afterword: practices -- Section 3.2: Texts and narratives -- '... quod nolo, illud facio' (Romans 7:20): institutionalising the unstable self -- Individualisation, deindividualisation, and institutionalisation among the early Mahānubhāvs -- Religious individualisation and collective bhakti: Sarala Dasa and Bhima Bhoi -- Individualisation and democratisation of knowledge in Banārasīdās' Samayasāra Nāṭaka -- Subjects of conversion in colonial central India -- Many biographies - multiple individualities: the identities of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang -- Jewish emancipation, religious individualisation, and metropolitan integration: a case study on Moses Mendelssohn and Moritz Lazarus -- Afterword: texts and narratives -- Part 4: Authorities in religious individualisation -- Introduction: authorities in religious individualisation -- Section 4.1: Between hegemony & heterogeneity -- Subordinated religious specialism and individuation in the Graeco-Roman world -- Religion and the limits of individualisation in ancient Athens: Andocides, Socrates, and the fair-breasted Phryne -- Traveling with the Picatrix: cultural liminalities of science and magic -- Singular individuals, conflicting authorities: Annie Besant and Mohandas Gandhi -- Being Hindu in India: culture, religion, and the Gita Press (1950) -- Individualised versus institutional religion: Is there a mediating position? -- Constructing a genuine religious character: the impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany -- Afterword: de- and neotraditionalisation -- Section 4.2: Pluralisation -- Religious plurality and individual authority in the Mahābhārata -- Ritual objects and religious communication in lived ancient religion: multiplying religion -- Institutionalisation of tradition and individualised lived Christian religion in Late Antiquity -- Early modern erudition and religious individualisation: the case of Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) -- Islamic mystical responses to hegemonic orthodoxy: the subcontinental perspective -- Afterword: pluralisation -- Section 4.3: Walking the edges -- Understanding 'prophecy': charisma, religious enthusiasm, and religious individualisation in the 17th century. A cross-cultural approach -- Out of bounds, still in control: exclusion, religious individuation and individualisation during the later Middle Ages -- The lonely antipope - or why we have difficulties classifying Pedro de Luna [Benedict XIII] as a religious individual -- Varieties of spiritual individualisation in the theosophical movement: the United Lodge of theosophists India as climax of individualisation-processes within the theosophical movement -- Individualisation in conformity: Keshab Chandra Sen and canons of the self -- Afterword: walking the edges -- Contributors
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Fuchs Martin  
Berlin/Boston, : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020
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