Brian Gibbons

Spirituality and the Occult (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues against the view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Shows that the influence of the esoteric tradition is neglected and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives, at least in part, from this.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134541492
• Artikelnr.: 39179614

Autorenporträt

B. J. Gibbons is Lecturer in Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. His main research interests are occult spiritualities and seventeenth-century English Radicalism. He is the author of Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought: Behmenism and its Development in England (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

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