Occultism in a Global Perspective

2014-09-11

political and social context. As such, our aim is similar to those of Alex Owen«s The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (2004), Corinna Treitel«s A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of ...

Author: Henrik Bogdan

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317544463

Category: Religion

Page: 288

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The study of the ideas and practices associated with occultism is a rapidly growing branch of contemporary scholarship. However, most research has focused on English and French speaking areas and has not addressed the wider spread and significance of occultism. Occultism in a Global Perspective presents a broad international overview. Essays range across the German magical order of the Fraternitas Saturni, esoteric Satanism in Denmark, sexual magic in Colombia and the reception of occultism in modern Turkey, India and the former Yugoslavia. As any other form of cultural practice, the occult is not isolated from its social, discursive, religious, and political environment. By studying occultism in its global context, the book offers insights into the reciprocal relationships that colour and shape regional occultism.
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Occultism in a Global Perspective

2014-09-11

By studying occultism in its global context, the book offers insights into the reciprocal relationships that colour and shape regional occultism.

Author: Henrik Bogdan

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317544470

Category: Religion

Page: 288

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The study of the ideas and practices associated with occultism is a rapidly growing branch of contemporary scholarship. However, most research has focused on English and French speaking areas and has not addressed the wider spread and significance of occultism. Occultism in a Global Perspective presents a broad international overview. Essays range across the German magical order of the Fraternitas Saturni, esoteric Satanism in Denmark, sexual magic in Colombia and the reception of occultism in modern Turkey, India and the former Yugoslavia. As any other form of cultural practice, the occult is not isolated from its social, discursive, religious, and political environment. By studying occultism in its global context, the book offers insights into the reciprocal relationships that colour and shape regional occultism.
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Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present

2021-05-10

Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic's Occultism in a Global Perspective (2013) was one of the first book-length attempts to widen the field by arguing that it is important to “understand how occultism changes when it 'spreads' to new ...

Author: Georgiana D. Hedesan

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030679064

Category: Religion

Page: 342

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This collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism. It illustrates how innovation is a mechanism of negotiation whereby an idea is either produced against, or adapted from, an older set of concepts in order to respond to a present context. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, it covers many different fields and themes including magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Tarot, apocalypticism and eschatology, Mesmerism, occultism, prophecy, and mysticism.
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The Occult Nineteenth Century

2021-01-09

Roots, Developments, and Impact on the Modern World Lukas Pokorny, Franz Winter. ———. 2016. Theosophical Orientalism and ... In Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. ... Occultism in a Global Perspective.

Author: Lukas Pokorny

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030553180

Category: Religion

Page: 444

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The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later generations of thinkers and practitioners. Penned by specialists in the field, this volume examines important themes and figures pertaining to this occult amalgam and its resonance into the twentieth century and beyond. Global guises of the occult, ranging from the Americas and Europe to India, are variously addressed, with special attention to the crucial role of mesmerism and the origins of modern yoga.
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The Occult World

2014-12-05

... Surrealism of André Breton and occultism, is published by Amsterdam University Press/Chicago University Press (2014). ... and co-editor of Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism (2012), Occultism in a Global Perspective (2013), ...

Author: Christopher Partridge

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317596769

Category: Religion

Page: 780

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This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture.
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Occult Roots of Religious Studies

2021-06-08

1 (2019), special issue Islamic Esotericism, (2019) or Thierry Zarcone, “Occultism in an Islamic context: the case of modern Turkey from the nineteenth century to the present time.” In Occultism in a Global Perspective, ed.

Author: Yves Mühlematter

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110660333

Category: History

Page: 295

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The historiographers of religious studies have written the history of this discipline primarily as a rationalization of ideological, most prominently theological and phenomenological ideas: first through the establishment of comparative, philological and sociological methods and secondly through the demand for intentional neutrality. This interpretation caused important roots in occult-esoteric traditions to be repressed. This process of “purification” (Latour) is not to be equated with the origin of the academic studies. De facto, the elimination of idealistic theories took time and only happened later. One example concerning the early entanglement is Tibetology, where many researchers and respected chair holders were influenced by theosophical ideas or were even members of the Theosophical Society. Similarly, the emergence of comparatistics cannot be understood without taking into account perennialist ideas of esoteric provenance, which hold that all religions have a common origin. In this perspective, it is not only the history of religious studies which must be revisited, but also the partial shaping of religious studies by these traditions, insofar as it saw itself as a counter-model to occult ideas.
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Esotericism and Narrative The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams

2018-06-07

... “Locating the West: Problematizing the Western in Western Esotericism and Occultism,” in Occultism in a Global Perspective, ed. Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic (London: Acumen, 2013): 18; DarkEnlightenment, 43–46.

Author: Aren Roukema

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004369115

Category: Religion

Page: 330

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In Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams, Aren Roukema looks through the portal of Charles Williams’s fantastic fiction, analyzing the author’s narrative translations of ritual experiences with modern magic, kabbalah and spiritual alchemy.
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Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic

2017-11-15

Henrik Bogdan and Gordon Djurdjevic address this issue in their introduction to Occultism in a Global Perspective by stating, 'It should be stressed that we do not adhere to the notion of a “universal occultism” – whatever that might ...

Author: Damon Zacharias Lycourinos

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351329958

Category: Religion

Page: 222

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In the Western world, magic has often functioned as an umbrella term for various religious beliefs and ritual practices that seek to influence events by harnessing supernatural power. The definition of these myriad occult and esoteric traditions have, however, usually come from those that are opposed to its practice; notably authorities in religious, legal and intellectual spheres. This book seeks to provide a new perspective, directly from the practitioners of modern Western magic, by exploring how a distinctive mode of embodiment and consciousness can produce a transition from an ‘ordinary’ to a ‘magical’ worldview. Starting with an introduction to the study of magic in the Western academy, the book then presents the author’s own participant observation of five ethnographic case studies of modern Western magic. The focus of these ethnographic case studies is directed towards ideas and methods the informants employ to self-legitimise and self-represent as ‘magicians’. It concludes by discussing the phenomenological implications and issues around embodiment that are inherent to the contemporary practice of magic. This is a unique insight into the lived experience of practitioners of modern magic. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of the Occult and New Religious Movements, as well as Religious Studies academics examining issues around the embodiment and the anthropology of religion.
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Global Tantra

2022

International Journal for Hindu Studies 7, nos. ... “The Psychic Chaitanya: Global Occult and Vaishnavism in Fin de Siècle Bengal. ... In Occultism in a Global Perspective, edited by Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic, 177–201.

Author: Julian Strube

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780197627112

Category: Religion

Page: 360

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Global Tantra explores the global exchanges that shaped a subject often associated with sexuality, social liberation, and bodily wellbeing but that also offers insights into political and religious developments in colonial India, involving race, education, and national identity. The study elides boundaries in disciplinary, historical, and regional contexts, tackles issues such as revivalism and reformism, and provides an integrative approach that suggestsideas to advance the debate about (post)colonialism and cultural appropriation.
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World Editors

2020-12-16

Dynamics of Global Publishing and the Latin American Case between the Archive and the Digital Age Gustavo Guerrero, Benjamin Loy, Gesine Müller. historia y el dolor ajeno no hubiesen creado ... Occultism in a global perspective”.

Author: Gustavo Guerrero

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110713114

Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 449

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The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. The contributions of this volume aim to pay attention to these multiple material dimensions of Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures. From perspectives informed by materialism, sociology, book studies, and digital humanities, the articles of this volume analyze the role of publishing houses, politics of translation, mediators and gatekeepers, allowing insights into the processes that enable books to cross borders and to be transformed into globally circulating commodities. The book focusses both on material (re)sources of literary archives, key actors in literary and cultural markets, prizes and book fairs, as well as on recent dimension of the digital age. Statements of some of the leading representatives of the global publishing world complement these analyses of the operations of selection and aggregation of value to literary texts.
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