Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as: * medicine * science * philosophy * Freudian and Jungian psychology * radical political movements * imaginative literature.…mehr
Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as: * medicine * science * philosophy * Freudian and Jungian psychology * radical political movements * imaginative literature.
Brian Gibbons is a lecturer in literature and cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. His main research interests are occult spiritualities andd seventeenth-century English Radicalism. He is the author of Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought: Behmenism and its Development in England (1998).
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Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Nature in occult thought Chapter 3 Science, magic and the occult Chapter 4 The body in occult thought Chapter 5 The body in health and death Chapter 6 The mind in occult thought Chapter 7 Occultism and analytical psychology Chapter 8 Society, religion and history in occult thought Chapter 9 The occult and Western culture Notes Index
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Nature in occult thought Chapter 3 Science, magic and the occult Chapter 4 The body in occult thought Chapter 5 The body in health and death Chapter 6 The mind in occult thought Chapter 7 Occultism and analytical psychology Chapter 8 Society, religion and history in occult thought Chapter 9 The occult and Western culture Notes Index
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