Innovation in esotericism from the Renaissance to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Hedesan, Georgiana D. (Editor), Rudbøg, Tim (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Series:Palgrave studies in new religions and alternative spiritualities.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Angela Voss (Canterbury Christ Church University): Diligentia et divina sorte Oracular Intelligence in Marsilio Ficinos Astral Magic'
  • Chapter 2: Georgiana D. Hedesan (University of Oxford): The Rise of the Term Adept in Esoteric Usage: From Arabic Philosophy to Early Modern Alchemy
  • Chapter 3: Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam): A Necessary Conjunction: Cabala, Magic and Alchemy in the Theosophy of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605
  • Chapter 4: Christopher McIntosh (University of Bremen): The Rosicrucian Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century
  • Chapter 5: Judith Mawer (University of Exeter): Thomas Vaughans Magia Adamica (1650): A Vindication of Magic and Magicians. Chapter 6: Jonathan Barry (University of Exeter): John Henderson (1757-1788) and the Changing Attitudes to the Occult in Enlightenment England
  • Chapter 7: Jean-Pierre Brach (Paris-Sorbonne): Psychic Disciplines: The Magnetizer as Magician in the Writings of Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy (1796-1881)
  • Chapter 8: Tim Rudbg (University of Copenhagen): H. P. Blavatskys Wisdom Religion and the Quest for Ancient Wisdom in Western Culture
  • Chapter 9: Julie Chajes (Tel Aviv University): Orientalist Aggregates: Theosophical Buddhism between Innovation and Tradition
  • Chapter 9: Jeffrey D. Lavoie (Middlesex Community College): Theosophical Chronology in the Writings of Guido von List (18481919): A Link between H.P. Blavatskys Philosophy and the Nazi Movement
  • Chapter 10: Antoine Faivre (University of Paris-Sorbonne): On the Various Uses of the Tarot
  • Chapter 11: Joscelyn Godwin (Colgate University), Afterword.