Hidden Intercourse
Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism
Biographical note
Wouter J. Hanegraaff (1961) is professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His publications focus on the history of Western esotericism from Renaissance hermetism to contemporary New Age spiritualities, and on questions of method and theory in the modern academic study of these fields. Jeffrey J. Kripal (1962) is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His publications focus on the comparative erotics of mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religious traditions, and the history of Western esotericism from ancient Gnosticism to the New Age.
Readership
All those interested in the study of Western esotericism, intellectual history from antiquity to the present, study of religion, and the history of sexuality.
Table of contents
Contributors include: Roelof van den Broek, April D. DeConick, Pierre Lory, Elliot R. Wolfson, Moshe Idel, Claire Fanger, Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Lawrence M. Principe, Allison P. Coudert, Antoine Faivre, Cathy Gutierrez, Arthur Versluis, John Patrick Deveney, Marco Pasi, Hugh B. Urban, Hans Thomas Hakl, and Jeffrey J. Kripal.
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As the only English version of Francis Mercury van Helmont’s foundational treatise of Christian Kabbalism, this bilingual edition, with a facsimile of the original Latin facing the translation and author’s footnotes, contains a critical introduction, as well as supplementary endnotes.
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Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia.
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Based on primary sources, this book analyses the historical creation, contents and development of the rituals of the Adoption Rite, with which women were initiated into Freemasonry since 1744. It gives a completely new perspective on this chapter of women's history.
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Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an extraordinary polymath. His fascinating correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a key to the mind-set of the period, and the transition from medieval to modern scientific thinking.
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This volume of conference proceedings investigates the various ways and patterns with which esoteric writings and groups establish their own tradition. This involves concepts of origin and memory, ways of legitimising esoteric tradition as well as techniques and practices of knowledge ...
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This volume brings together leading representatives of the recent debate about the persistence of kabbalah in the modern world. It breaks new ground for a better understanding of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.
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This book analyzes the relationships that exist between esotericism and music from Antiquity to the 20th century, investigating ways in which magic, astrology, alchemy, divination, and cabbala interact with music.
Ce livre offre un panorama des relations entre l’ésotérisme et la musique de ...
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This volume concentrates on two aspects of the participation of women in Freemasonry: Women’s agency (i.e. the power women gained and exercised in this context) and rituals (i.e. the role of man and women in changing and shaping the rituals women work with).
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In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie esoteric identities and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history.
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Drawing upon Huser’s 1589 publication of Paracelsus’ works, this dual-language volume combines a critical edition of Essential Theoretical Writings on philosophy, medicine, nature, and the supernatural, with new English translations and extensive commentary on the second largest ...
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