New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism / / Egil Asprem and Julian Strube.
This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly "Western" undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ritual traditions that go back to Mediterranean antiquity, this boo...
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Superior document: | Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion Series ; Volume 17 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Edition: | First edition. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ;
Volume 17. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Content
- List of Schematics
- Notes on Contributors
- Esotericism's Expanding Horizon: Why This Book Came to Be Egil Asprem and Julian Strube
- Receptions of Revelations: A Future for the Study of Esotericism and Antiquity Dylan Burns
- Towards the Study of Esotericism without the "Western": Esotericism from the Perspective of a Global Religious History Julian Strube
- "That I Did Love the Moor to Live with Him": Islam in/and the Study of "Western Esotericism" Liana Saif
- The Occult among the Aborigines of South America? Some Remarks on Race, Coloniality, and the West in the Study of Esotericism Mariano Villalba
- "Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels": Western Esotericism, Yoga, and the Discourse of Authenticity Keith Cantú
- Rejected Knowledge Reconsidered: Some Methodological Notes on Esotericism and Marginality Egil Asprem
- Race and (the Study of) Esotericism Justine Bakker
- "What Can the Whole World Be Hiding?" Exploring Africana Esotericisms in the American Soul-Blues Continuum Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Stephen C. Finley
- Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research Manon Hedenborg White
- What do Jade Eggs Tell Us about the Category "Esotericism"? Spirituality, Neoliberalism, Secrecy, and Commodities Susannah Crockford
- Interpretation Reconsidered: The Definitional Progression in the Study of Esotericism as a Case in Point for the Varifocal Theory of Interpretation Dimitry Okropiridze
- Afterword: Outlines of a New Roadmap Egil Asprem and Julian Strube
- Index.