Broschiertes Buch

Gnostic Afterlives in American Religion and Culture

Beschreibung

Fourteen scholars investigate the intersection of Gnosis/Gnostic spirituality and American religion and culture.

Autor

April D. DeConick, Ph.D. (1994, University of Michigan), is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Rice University. She has published extensively on early Christianity, esotericism, mysticism, and Gnosticism, including The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today (Columbia University Press, 2016). Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Programs in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. Jeff is the author of nine books, including, most recently, The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why It Matters (Penguin, 2020), where he envisions the future centrality and urgency of the humanities in conversation with the history of science, the philosophy of mind, and our shared ethical, political, and ecological challenges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9789004471931
• ISBN-10: 9004471936
• Artikelnr.: 62316288