Occult Roots of Religious Studies : On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900 /

Occult Roots of Religious Studies : On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900 /

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...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Bernard, Léo (Contributor), Böhme, Sabine (Contributor), Cyranka, Daniel (Contributor), Frenschkowski, Marco (Contributor), Huss, Boaz (Contributor), Mühlematter, Yves (Contributor, Editor), Sarmis, Dilek (Contributor), Schlieter, Jens (Contributor), Strube, Julian (Contributor), Zander, Helmut (Contributor, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021]
Series:Okkulte Moderne ; 4
Subjects:
Occultism > Research > History.
Occultism > Research > Influence.
Occultisme > Recherche > Histoire.
Occultisme > Recherche > Influence.
HISTORY > General.
Occultism > Research.
Occultism, history of academia, history of science.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Detail Contents
  • The Occult Roots of Religious Studies: An Introduction
  • What Is Esotericism? Does It Exist? How Can It Be Understood?
  • The Science of Religion, Folklore Studies, and the Occult Field in Great Britain (1870-1914): Some Observations on Competition and Cain-Abel Conflicts
  • Magnetism, Spiritualism, and the Academy: The Case of Nees von Esenbeck, President of the Academy of the Natural Sciences Leopoldina (1818-1858)
  • Academic Study of Kabbalah and Occultist Kabbalah
  • Tantra as Experimental Science in the Works of John Woodroffe
  • A Common Core of Theosophy in Celtic Myth, Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism: Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and the Comparative Study of Religion
  • Paul Masson-Oursel (1882-1956): Inside and Outside the Academy
  • The Ancient Processional Street of Babylon at the Pergamonmuseum Berlin: Walter Andrae's Reconstruction and Its Anthroposophical Background
  • Short Biographies
  • Contributors
  • Index