Spirituality and the Occult: From the Renaissance to the Modern

ISBN-13: 9780415244480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 208 str.

Brian Gibbons; Brian J. Gibbons

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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).