Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture, Paperback - Wouter J. Hanegraaff

Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical t...

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Reducere. Western esotericism has been a pervasive presence in Western culture from late antiquity to the present day, but until recently it was largely igno...

DescriptionThe story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian ph...

What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Goth...

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Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey J. KripalNumber of pages: 568Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 227 x 164 x 33Cover type: Pape...

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An A to Z guide to evolved states of consciousness. Between the Gates is a manual of selfinitiation and liberation that takes the student through t...

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This Handbook brings together articles on two distinct but related subjects: Western mysticism and Western esotericism. Readers will be able to tra...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Angel MillarA timely survey of radical spirituality and political activism in Islam and the West over the last century and ...

Publisher: McFarland & Co IncAuthor(s): Sharon Paice MacLeodIllustration(s): 17 illustrationsNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2013Dimensions: ...

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This book explores the role of masculinity in shaping citizenship in the western world. Can the universal ideal of citizenship be redeemed or is it...

Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue ...

Reducere. DescriptionRev. J. J. Gibbons experienced the San Juan Mountains of Colorado as few men ever did. At the end of the nineteenth century, when avalan...

Reducere. National Book AwardsThis magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societi...

Oil and Sovereignty explores the national and international strategies formulated to deal with the first oil crises in 1973-1974, as steadily incre...

Reducere. The runes are said to have -revealed themselves- to von List, uncovering a complete cosmology and esoteric understanding of the primeval Teutonic/A...

Reducere. How can biblical authority be a reality for those shaped by the modern world? This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a uniqu...

Reducere. "The Awakening of the West" is an insightful and elegantly written history chronicling the developing relationship between Buddhism and Western cul...

This work throws new light on the nature and origins of ideas of racial difference. It reconstructs the evolution of the modern discourse of race a...

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Publisher: Little, Brown & CompanyAuthor(s): ShimesabaNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 209 x 18Cover type: Paperback / s...

Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their...

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors att...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Donna A. (Salem State University, USA) SegerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publicat...

Reducere. In the 1980s small groups of experienced magicians experimented with the secret techniques of the Western Mystery Tradition. They produced a renais...

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