Broschiertes Buch

Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present

Beschreibung

This collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism. It illustrates how innovation is a mechanism of negotiation whereby an idea is either produced against, or adapted from, an older set of concepts in order to respond to a present context. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, it covers many different fields and themes including magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Tarot, apocalypticism and eschatology, Mesmerism, occultism, prophecy, and mysticism.

Autor

Georgiana D. Hedesan is Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge: The 'Christian Philosophy' of Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) (2016).   Tim Rudbøg is Associate Professor and Director of the Copenhagen Center for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His recent co-edited book Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society was published in 2020.  

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-67908-8
• 1st edition 2021
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9783030679088
• ISBN-10: 303067908X
• Artikelnr.: 63756512

Rezensionen

"The volume is dedicated to the memory of Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke, a leading scholar of esotericism, and contains a Foreword about him written by Joscelyn Godwin. The volume transcends the boundaries of historical periodization and successfully introduces the notion of 'innovation' to the scholarship of esotericism." (Mriganka Mukhopadhyay, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 49 (1), March, 2023)