Hidden intercourse : eros and sexuality in the history of Western esotericism /
Analyzes the eroticism of the esoteric. This work aims to distinguish fact from fiction - only to find that historical realities are sometimes even stranger than the fantasies. It reveals the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2008.
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Colección: | Aries book series ;
v. 7. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Introduction: Things We Do Not Talk About (Jeffrey J. Kripal and Wouter J. Hanegraaff); Sexuality and Sexual Symbolism in Hermetic and Gnostic Thought and Practice (Second-Fourth Centuries) (Roelof van den Broek); Conceiving Spirits: The Mystery of Valentinian Sex (April D. DeConick); Sexual Intercourse Between Humans and Demons in the Islamic Tradition (Pierre Lory); Murmuring Secrets: Eroticism and Esotericism in Medieval Kabbalah (Elliot R. Wolfson); Ta'anug: Erotic Delights from Kabbalah to Hasidism (Moshe Idel).
- Complications of Eros: The Song of Songs in John of Morigny's Liber fl orum celestis Doctrine (Claire Fanger)Under the Mantle of Love: The Mystical Eroticisms of Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno (Wouter J. Hanegraaff); Revealing Analogies: The Descriptive and Deceptive Roles of Sexuality and Gender in Latin Alchemy (Lawrence M. Principe); Probing Women and Penetrating Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Allison P. Coudert); Sensuous Relation with Sophia in Christian The.