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| 1. |  € 90,00 | EAN-13: 9781844656875
Histories of the Hidden God Concealment and Revelation in Western Gnostic, Esoteric, and Mystical Traditions
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2013 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 90,00 | | Descrizione | In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a tension between a God who is simultaneously accessible to humanity and yet inaccessible, a God who is both immanent and transcendent, present and absent. Western Gnostic, esoteric, and mystical thinking capitalizes on the hidden and hiding God. He becomes the hallmark of the mystics, Gnostics, sages, and artists who attempt to make accessible to humans the God who is secreted away.Histories of the Hidden God explores this tradition from antiquity to today. The essays focus on three essential themes: the concealment of the hidden God; the human quest for the hidden God, and revelations of the hidden God |  Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 2. |  € 30,00 | EAN-13: 9781781790168 Hans Thomas Hakl
Eranos An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2013 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 30,00 | | Descrizione | Every year since 1933 many of the world’s leading intellectuals have met on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy to discuss the latest developments in philosophy, history, art and science and, in particular, to explore the mystical and symbolic in our lives. The Eranos Meetings – named after the Greek word for a banquet where the guests bring the food – constitute one of the most important gatherings of scholars in the twentieth century.This book, the first comprehensive history of the meetings, presents a set of portraits of some of the century’s most influential thinkers, all participants at Eranos: Carl Jung, Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade, Martin Buber, Walter Otto, Paul Tillich, Gershom Scholem, Herbert Read, Joseph Campbell, Erwin Schrödinger, Karl Keréyni, D. T. Suzuki and Adolph Portmann. The volume presents a critical appraisal of the views of these men, how the exchange of ideas encouraged by Eranos influenced each, and examines the attraction of these esotericists towards authoritarian politics | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 3. |  € 24,00 | EAN-13: 9781908049803
Defining Magic A Reader
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2013 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 24,00 | | Descrizione | Magic has been an important term in western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts which examine the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working.The Reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on their strength in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections with each essay separately introduced for student readers. Together, these texts – from Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology – reveal the breadth of critical approaches and responses to defining what is magic.Contributors Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard, James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of Sevilla, Jesper Sørensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers, Stanley Tambiah, Edward Tylor | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 4. |  € 66,00 | EAN-13: 9781844656448 Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
Religion as Magical Ideology How the Supernatural Reflects Rationality
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2013 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 66,00 | | Descrizione | Religion as Magical Ideology examines the relationship between rationality and supernatural beliefs arguing that such beliefs are products of evolution, cognition and culture. The book does not offer a false rapprochement between reason and religion; instead, it explores their interrelationship as a series of complex adaptations between cognitive and cultural processes.Exploring the nature of the tension between religious traditions and reason, Religion as Magical Ideology develops a dual inheritance theory of religion – which combines the cognitive byproduct and prosocial adaptation accounts – and analyses the connection between the function of a belief and the degree of protection it gets from potential counter-evidence. With discussion ranging from individual cognitive mechanisms, general functional considerations, to the limits of evolutionary and cognitive processes, the book offers readers a systematic account of how cognition shapes religious beliefs and practices | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 5. |  € 24,00 | EAN-13: 9781844657292
'Is This Not the Carpenter?' The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2013 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 24,00 | | Descrizione | The historicity of Jesus is now widely accepted, but this assumption disarms biblical texts of much of their power by privileging an historical interpretation, effectively sweeping aside much theological speculation and allusion. The assumption of historicity gathers further assumptions to it, shaping the interpretation of texts, both denying and adding subtext. We are now faced with an endless array of works on the historical Jesus few of which question what has been lost through this wide-spread assumption of historicity.Is This Not The Carpenter? offers readers the most up to date overview of how the historicity of Jesus is examined in contemporary scholarship. An international range of scholars – with divergent views on the historical Jesus – present a literary re-reading of the New Testament, arguing that the gospel evidence is to be discovered not in oral tradition but in the written literature of the ancient world | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 6. |  € 30,00 | EAN-13: 9781844656561
Reinventing Religious Studies Key Writings in the History of a Discipline
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2013 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 30,00 | | Descrizione | Reinventing Religious Studies offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has been transformed into a critical discipline informed by a wide range of perspectives from sociology to anthropology, politics to material culture, and economics to cultural theory. Reinventing Religious Studies brings together key writings which have helped shape scholarship, teaching and learning in the field. All the essays are drawn from the CSSR Bulletin, a provocative, occasionally irreverent, and always critical journal which has long been at the centre of debates in Religious Studies. This collection will prove invaluable for students and scholars of theory and method in Religious Studies. It offers readers a unique opportunity to understand the history of key issues in the study of religion and what remains central to the study of religion today | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 7. |  € 78,00 | EAN-13: 9781781790175 Niels Peter Lemche
Biblical Studies and the Failure of History Changing Perspectives 3
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2013 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 78,00 | | Descrizione | Until the 1970s biblical studies belonged to the historical-critical school and had reached a point where all problems were believed to have been solved. Then all assumptions began to be turned on their head. Previously, historical studies constituted the backbone of biblical studies; now, every aspect of biblical history began to be questioned. The idea of the Old Testament as a source of historical information was replaced by an understanding of the texts as a means for early Jewish society to interpret its past.Biblical Studies and the Failure of History brings together key essays which reflect the trajectory of this scholarly shift in order to illuminate the state of biblical studies today. The early essays present historical-critical studies tracing historical information. Further essays employ a more critical and interpretive perspective to examine seminal issues ranging from the Hellenistic contexts of biblical tradition to the functioning of Old Testament society | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 8. |  € 78,00 | EAN-13: 9781908049957 Thomas L. Thompson
Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History Changing Perspectives 2
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2013 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 78,00 | | Descrizione | Modern biblical scholarship’s commitment to the historical-critical method in its efforts to write a history of Israel has created the central and unavoidable problem of writing an objective and critical history of Palestine through the biblical literature with the methods of Biblical Archaeology. Biblical Narrative and Palestine’s History brings together key essays on historical method and the archaeology and history of Palestine.The essays employ comparative and formalistic techniques to illuminate the allegorical and mythical in Old Testament narrative traditions from Genesis to Nehemiah. In so doing, the volume presents a detailed review of central and radical changes in both our understanding of biblical traditions and the archaeology and history of Palestine. The study offers an analysis of Biblical narrative as rooted in ancient Near Eastern literature since the Bronze Age | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 9. |  € 72,00 | EAN-13: 9781844657315
Writing the Bible Scribes, Scribalism and Script
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2013 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 72,00 | | Descrizione | For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and the Greco-Roman world. In many ways, however, the production of the Jewish literary canon, while reflecting wider practice, constitutes an exception because of its religious function as the written ‘word of God’, leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves. Writing the Bible brings together the wide-ranging study of all major aspects of ancient writing and writers. The essays cover the dissemination of texts, book and canon formation, and the social and political effects of writing and of textual knowledge. Central issues discussed include the status of the scribe, the nature of ‘authorship’, the relationship between copying and redacting, and the relative status of oral and written knowledge. The writers examined include Ilimilku of Ugarit, the scribes of ancient Greece, Ben Sira, Galen, Origen and the author of Pseudo-Clement | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 10. |  € 90,00 | EAN-13: 9781908049322
Contemporary Esotericism
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2012 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 90,00 | | Descrizione | The study of contemporary esoteric discourse has hitherto been a largely neglected part of the new academic field of Western esotericism. Contemporary Esotericism provides a broad overview and assessment of the complex world of Western esoteric thought today. Combining historiographical analysis with theories and methodologies from the social sciences, the volume explores new problems and offers new possibilities for the study of esoterica. Contemporary Esotericism studies the period since the 1950s but focuses on the last two decades. The wide range of essays are divided into four thematic sections: the intricacies of esoteric appeals to tradition; the role of popular culture, modern communication technologies, and new media in contemporary esotericism; the impact and influence of esotericism on both religious and secular arenas; and the recent ‘de-marginalization’ of the esoteric in both scholarship and society | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 11. |  € 24,00 | EAN-13: 9781845530983
Religious Experience A Reader
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2012 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 24,00 | | Descrizione | Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that religious narratives and rituals are always secondary to the original experience. However, the concept of “experience” itself has come under increasing fire from a range of critics and theorists.Including essays from those who assume the existence and possible universality of religious experience and those who question its rhetoric, the Reader presents approaches from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives: philosophy, literary and cultural theory, history, psychology, anthropology, feminist theory, as well as writings from within religious studies. With each essay separately introduced with information on its historical and intellectual context, the Reader enables students to explore religious experience as rhetoric created to authorize social identities. Bringing together both classic and contemporary writings, the book will be an invaluable introduction to students of religion, as well as sociology and anthropology.Contributors Robert Desjarlais, Diana Eck, William James, Craig Martin, Russell T. McCutcheon, Wayne Proudfoot, Robert Sharf, Ann Taves, Charles Taylor, Joachim Wach, Joan Wallach Scott, Raymond Williams | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 12. |  € 24,00 | EAN-13: 9781845536350 Fabrizio M. Ferrari
Ernesto de Martino on Religion The Crisis and the Presence
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2012 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 24,00 | | Descrizione | Ernesto de Martino was a major critical thinker in the study of vernacular religions, producing innovative analyses of key concepts such as ‘folklore’, ‘magic’ and ‘ritual’. His methodology stemmed from his training under the philosopher Benedetto Croce whilst his philosophical approach to anthropology borrowed from Marx and Gramsci. Widely celebrated in continental Europe, de Martino’s contribution to the study of religion has not been fully understood in the Anglophone world though some of his works - Primitive Magic: the Psychic Powers of Shamans and Sorcerers and The Land of Remorse: a Study of Southern Italian Tarantism - have been translated. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of de Martino’s life and work, the thinkers and theories which informed his writings, his contribution to the study of religions and the potential of his methodology for contemporary scholarship | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 13. |  € 66,00 | EAN-13: 9781845538859 István Czachesz
The Grotesque Body in Early Christian Discourse Hell, Scatology and Metamorphosis
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2012 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 66,00 | | Descrizione | Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and visceral morality was produced and refined from the very start of Christian history. The sources range across Greek comedy, Roman and Jewish demonology, and metamorphosis traditions. The study reveals how these images originated, were adopted, and were shaped to the service of a doctrinally and psychologically persuasive Christian message | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 14. |  € 30,00 | EAN-13: 9781845539726 Mogens Müller
The Expression ‘Son of Man’ and the Development of Christology A History of Interpretation
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2012 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 30,00 | | Descrizione | "Son of Man" is the only self-designation employed by Jesus to describe himself in the gospels. However, the phrase is used in such a way that no particular theological significance can be determined. In early Christianity, the expression was interpreted as signifying Christ’s human nature; later, "Son of Man" was thought to be a christological title in its own right. Contemporary scholarship, treating the term in the context of the original Aramaic of an historical Jesus, sees only a rhetorical device to refer to the one speaking. The Expression 'Son of Man' and the Development of Christology is the first study of the "Son of Man" trope, tracing the history of interpretation from the Apostolic Fathers to the present, and revealing how changing interpretations have reflected changing doctrine | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 15. |  € 78,00 | EAN-13: 9781908049735 Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Food in Ancient Judah Domestic Cooking in the Time of the Hebrew Bible
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2012 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 78,00 | | Descrizione | The study of food in the Hebrew Bible and Syro-Palestinian archaeology has tended to focus on kosher dietary laws, the sacrificial system, and feasting in elite contexts. More everyday ritual and practice – the preparation of food in the home – has been overlooked. Food in Ancient Judah explores both the archaeological remains and ancient Near Eastern sources to see what they reveal about the domestic gastronomical daily life of ancient Judahites within the narratives of the Hebrew Bible. Beyond the findings, the methodology of the study is in itself innovative. Biblical passages that deal with domestic food preparation are translated and analysed. Archaeological findings and relevant secondary resources are then applied to inform these passages. Food in Ancient Judah reflects both the shift towards the study of everyday life in biblical studies and archaeology and the huge expansion of interest in food history – it will be of interest to scholars in all these fields | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 16. |  € 72,00 | EAN-13: 9781781790007 Russell Hobson
Transforming Literature into Scripture Texts as Cult Objects at Ninevah and Qumran
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2012 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 72,00 | | Descrizione | Transforming Literature into Scripture examines how the early textual traditions of ancient Israel – stories, laws, and rituals – were transformed into sacred writings. By comparing evidence from two key collections from antiquity – the royal library at Nineveh and the biblical manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls – the book traces the stabilization of textual traditions in the ancient Near East towards fixed literary prototypes.The study presents a new methodology which enables the quantification, categorisation and statistical analysis of texts from different languages, writing systems, and media. The methodology is tested on a wide range of text genres from the cuneiform and biblical traditions in order to determine which texts tend towards stabilized forms.Transforming Literature into Scripture reveals how authoritative literary collections metamorphosed into fixed ritualized texts and will be of interest to scholars across biblical, Judaic and literary studies | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 17. |  € 351,00 | EAN-13: 9781844651818
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion 5-volume hardcover set
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2009 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 351,00 | | Descrizione | This major work of reference is an indispensable resource for anyone conducting research or teaching in the philosophy of religion and related fields, such as theology, religious studies, the history of philosophy, and the history of ideas. An international team of over 100 leading scholars has been brought together to provide authoritative exposition of how history's most important philosophical thinkers – from antiquity to the present day – have sought to analyse the concepts and tenets central to Western religious belief, especially Christianity. Divided, chronologically, into five volumes, The History of Western Philosophy of Religion is designed to be accessible to a wide range of readers, from the scholar looking for original insight and the latest research findings to the student wishing for a masterly encapsulation of a particular philosopher's views. It will become the standard reference in the field. Features: • Each volume opens with a general introduction, presenting an overview of philosophy of religion in the period • Each essay opens with a brief biography, then outlines and analyses that philosopher's contribution to thinking on religion, and concludes with key further reading • Essays are cross-referenced, highlighting the development of major ideas and influences across history • Each volume closes with a chronology, presenting a contextual guide to the main religious, political, cultural and artistic events of the period • Each volume contains its own bibliography and index | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 18. |  € 22,00 | EAN-13: 9781845530129 Russell T. McCutcheon
Studying Religion An Introduction
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2007 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 22,00 | | Descrizione | Widely used as a primer, a text and a provocation to critical thinking, Studying Religion aims to develop students’ skills. The book clearly explains the methods and theories employed in the study of religion. Essays are offered on a range of topics: from the history and functions of religion to public discourse on religion and the classification of religions. The works of key scholars – from Karl Marx, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Rudolf Otto to Mircea Eliade, James G. Frazer, and Sigmund Freud – are analysed and explored. Studying Religion represents a shift away from the traditional focus of describing the exotic or curious religious “Other” to an examination of how religious behaviours and institutions are studied. The book will be invaluable to students of religious studies | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 19. |  € 24,00 | EAN-13: 9781844657476 Kocku von Stuckrad
Western Esotericism A Brief History of Secret Knowledge
| Edizione: | Acumen Publishing, 2005 |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 24,00 | | Descrizione | Esotericism is the search for an absolute but hidden knowledge accessed through mystical vision, the mediation of higher beings, or personal experience. In Western cultural history esoteric approaches to religion have often been in conflict with – and suffered at the hands of – more established forms of religious belief and practice. Western Esotericism presents a very broad and engaging history of the people and ideas which have shaped occult history from antiquity to today. Throughout the history of esotericism the dynamic of concealment and revelation has characterized the search for secret knowledge. Pursued both publically and privately, esotericism has come to influence more mainstream religious practice and culture and has significantly shaped our understanding of modernity. Today, esotericism continues to be practised by a range of both established and new religious movements. Western Esotericism presents the essential guide to one of the most fascinating, provocative, and sustained of religious traditions | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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