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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hanegraaff, Wouter J., Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John), 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2008.
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.