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

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Occult Roots of Religious Studies : : On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900 / / ed. by Helmut Zander, Yves Mühlematter.

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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...

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Funder:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
MitwirkendeR:
Bernard, Léo,
Böhme, Sabine,
Cyranka, Daniel,
Frenschkowski, Marco,
Huss, Boaz,
Mühlematter, Yves,
Sarmis, Dilek,
Schlieter, Jens,
Strube, Julian,
Zander, Helmut,
HerausgeberIn:
Mühlematter, Yves,
Zander, Helmut,
:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Okkulte Moderne
Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 283 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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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

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