Hermes explains : thirty questions about western esotericism : celebrating the 20th anniversary of the centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam /
"Few 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 scho...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Aren't we living in a desenchanted world? / Egil Asprem
- Esotericism, that's for white folks, right? / Justine M. Bakker
- Surely modern art is not occult? It is modern! / Tessel M. Bauduin
- Is it true that secret societies are trying to control the world? / Henrik Bogdan
- Numbers are meant for counting, right? / Jean-Pierre Brach
- Wasn't Hermes a prophet of Christianity who lived long before Christ? / Roelof van den Broek
- Weren't early Christians up against a gnostic religion? / Dylan M. Burns
- There's not much room for women in esotericism, right? / Allison P. Coudert
- The imagination ... You mean fantasy, right? / Antoine Faivre
- Weren't medieval monks afraid of demons? / Claire Fanger
- What does popular fiction have to do with the occult? / Christine Ferguson
- Isn't alchemy a spiritual tradition? / Peter J. Forshaw
- Music? What does that have to do with esotericism? / Joscelyn Godwin
- Why all that satanist stuff in heavy metal? / Kennet Granholm
- Religion can't be a joke, right? / J. Christian Greer
- Isn't esotericism irrational? / Olav Hammer
- Rejected knowledge ... so you mean that esotericists are the losers of history? / Wouter J. Hanegraaff
- The kind of stuff Madonna talks about
- that's not real kabbala, is it? / Boaz Huss
- Shouldn't evil cults that woship satan be illegal? / Massimo Introvigne
- Is occultism a product of capitalism? / Andreas B. Kilcher
- Can superhero comics really transmit esoteric knowledge? / Jeffrey J. Kripal
- Are kabbalistic meditations all about ecstasy? / John MacMurphy
- Isn't India the home of spiritual wisdom? / Mriganka Mukhopadhyay
- If people believe in magic, isn't that just because they aren't educated? / Bernd-Christian Otto
- But what does esotericism have to do with sex? / Marco Pasi
- Is there such a thing as Islamic estoericism? / Mark Sedgwick
- A man who never died, angels falling from the sky ... What is that Enoch stuff all about? / György E. Szönyi
- Is there any room for women in Jewish kabbalah? / Elliot R. Wolfson
- Surely born-again Christianity has nothing to do with occult stuff like alchemy? / Mike A. Zuber.