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The serpent's gift [[electronic resource] ] : gnostic reflections on the study of religion / / Jeffrey J. Kripal
| The serpent's gift [[electronic resource] ] : gnostic reflections on the study of religion / / Jeffrey J. Kripal |
| Autore | Kripal Jeffrey J (Jeffrey John), <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 299/.932 |
| Soggetto topico |
Religion - Philosophy
Gnosticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-95733-X
0-226-45382-0 9786611957339 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the serpent's gift. Faith, reason, and gnosis ; The premodern, the modern, and the postmodern ; Toward a gnostic (post)modernity ; Medi(t)ations ; Writing as hissing ; Autobiographical and pedagogical contexts ; The essays -- The apocryphon of the beloved. Invocation ; The quest for the heretical Jesus ; "One will know them by their roots" ; From the womb ; Sexual healings: dispelling the demons of abuse ; Sexual teachings ; The man Jesus loved ; The woman Jesus loved ; The secret -- Restoring the Adam of light. The Adam of light awakened by her ; The fiery brook ; The sacrilegious secret of Christian theology ; Implications of the method ; The historical and intellectual contexts ; "Man is God to man" : the virtues of pluralism and polytheism -- Completing the incarnation of love (and sex) : embodiment in Feuerbach's thought ; The sexuality of numbers ; The cancer and the cure ; Toward a mystical humanism: a gnostic rereading -- Comparative mystics. The rebuke of the gnostic and the oriental Renaissance ; Comparative mystics ; Ramakrishna: colonialism, universalism, mysticism ; Doctrinal and historical-critical analysis ; Ramakrishna and the comparativist ; The critical study of religion as a modern mystical tradition ; The scandal of comparison ; Professional heresy: the gnostic study of religion -- Interlude: Logoi mystikoi; or how to think like a gnostic -- Mutant marvels. Educational and sexual allegory ; On puberty and powers ; Denying the demiurge ; Toward a more radical empiricism ; Dissociation and the release of nonordinary energies ; On death as dissociation ; Real X-Men ; On x-clusions and x-ceptions ; Political allegory; or, how (not) to be an X-Man -- Conclusion: return to the garden. The other tree ; The forbidden fruit ; "When He becomes troubled, He will be astonished" ; The flaming sword and the bridal chamber. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454122703321 |
Kripal Jeffrey J (Jeffrey John), <1962->
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| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The serpent's gift [[electronic resource] ] : gnostic reflections on the study of religion / / Jeffrey J. Kripal
| The serpent's gift [[electronic resource] ] : gnostic reflections on the study of religion / / Jeffrey J. Kripal |
| Autore | Kripal Jeffrey J (Jeffrey John), <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 299/.932 |
| Soggetto topico |
Religion - Philosophy
Gnosticism |
| Soggetto non controllato | gnostic, gnosticism, study, academic, scholarly, research, religion, religious studies, faith, belief, christian, christianity, genesis, bible, biblical, god, adam, eve, temptation, eden, garden, literature, literary, wisdom, creation, creationism, essay collection, rational, gospel, sexuality, jesus, john the baptist, mary magdalene |
| ISBN |
1-281-95733-X
0-226-45382-0 9786611957339 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the serpent's gift. Faith, reason, and gnosis ; The premodern, the modern, and the postmodern ; Toward a gnostic (post)modernity ; Medi(t)ations ; Writing as hissing ; Autobiographical and pedagogical contexts ; The essays -- The apocryphon of the beloved. Invocation ; The quest for the heretical Jesus ; "One will know them by their roots" ; From the womb ; Sexual healings: dispelling the demons of abuse ; Sexual teachings ; The man Jesus loved ; The woman Jesus loved ; The secret -- Restoring the Adam of light. The Adam of light awakened by her ; The fiery brook ; The sacrilegious secret of Christian theology ; Implications of the method ; The historical and intellectual contexts ; "Man is God to man" : the virtues of pluralism and polytheism -- Completing the incarnation of love (and sex) : embodiment in Feuerbach's thought ; The sexuality of numbers ; The cancer and the cure ; Toward a mystical humanism: a gnostic rereading -- Comparative mystics. The rebuke of the gnostic and the oriental Renaissance ; Comparative mystics ; Ramakrishna: colonialism, universalism, mysticism ; Doctrinal and historical-critical analysis ; Ramakrishna and the comparativist ; The critical study of religion as a modern mystical tradition ; The scandal of comparison ; Professional heresy: the gnostic study of religion -- Interlude: Logoi mystikoi; or how to think like a gnostic -- Mutant marvels. Educational and sexual allegory ; On puberty and powers ; Denying the demiurge ; Toward a more radical empiricism ; Dissociation and the release of nonordinary energies ; On death as dissociation ; Real X-Men ; On x-clusions and x-ceptions ; Political allegory; or, how (not) to be an X-Man -- Conclusion: return to the garden. The other tree ; The forbidden fruit ; "When He becomes troubled, He will be astonished" ; The flaming sword and the bridal chamber. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782527803321 |
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Kripal Jeffrey J (Jeffrey John), <1962->
|
||
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The serpent's gift [[electronic resource] ] : gnostic reflections on the study of religion / / Jeffrey J. Kripal
| The serpent's gift [[electronic resource] ] : gnostic reflections on the study of religion / / Jeffrey J. Kripal |
| Autore | Kripal Jeffrey J (Jeffrey John), <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 299/.932 |
| Soggetto topico |
Religion - Philosophy
Gnosticism |
| Soggetto non controllato | gnostic, gnosticism, study, academic, scholarly, research, religion, religious studies, faith, belief, christian, christianity, genesis, bible, biblical, god, adam, eve, temptation, eden, garden, literature, literary, wisdom, creation, creationism, essay collection, rational, gospel, sexuality, jesus, john the baptist, mary magdalene |
| ISBN |
1-281-95733-X
0-226-45382-0 9786611957339 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the serpent's gift. Faith, reason, and gnosis ; The premodern, the modern, and the postmodern ; Toward a gnostic (post)modernity ; Medi(t)ations ; Writing as hissing ; Autobiographical and pedagogical contexts ; The essays -- The apocryphon of the beloved. Invocation ; The quest for the heretical Jesus ; "One will know them by their roots" ; From the womb ; Sexual healings: dispelling the demons of abuse ; Sexual teachings ; The man Jesus loved ; The woman Jesus loved ; The secret -- Restoring the Adam of light. The Adam of light awakened by her ; The fiery brook ; The sacrilegious secret of Christian theology ; Implications of the method ; The historical and intellectual contexts ; "Man is God to man" : the virtues of pluralism and polytheism -- Completing the incarnation of love (and sex) : embodiment in Feuerbach's thought ; The sexuality of numbers ; The cancer and the cure ; Toward a mystical humanism: a gnostic rereading -- Comparative mystics. The rebuke of the gnostic and the oriental Renaissance ; Comparative mystics ; Ramakrishna: colonialism, universalism, mysticism ; Doctrinal and historical-critical analysis ; Ramakrishna and the comparativist ; The critical study of religion as a modern mystical tradition ; The scandal of comparison ; Professional heresy: the gnostic study of religion -- Interlude: Logoi mystikoi; or how to think like a gnostic -- Mutant marvels. Educational and sexual allegory ; On puberty and powers ; Denying the demiurge ; Toward a more radical empiricism ; Dissociation and the release of nonordinary energies ; On death as dissociation ; Real X-Men ; On x-clusions and x-ceptions ; Political allegory; or, how (not) to be an X-Man -- Conclusion: return to the garden. The other tree ; The forbidden fruit ; "When He becomes troubled, He will be astonished" ; The flaming sword and the bridal chamber. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827503103321 |
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Kripal Jeffrey J (Jeffrey John), <1962->
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| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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