The problem of disenchantment : : scientific naturalism and esoteric discourse, 1900-1939 / / Egil Asprem.
The Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and “the occult” in the early 20th century. By developing a new approach to Max Weber’s famous idea of a “disenchantment of the world”, and drawing on an impressively...
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| Superior document: | Numen Book Series, Volume 147 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the history of religions ;
Volume 147. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (643 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: The Limits of Reason
- 1 From Process to Problem
- 2 Science as Worldview
- 3 Brave New World: An Introduction to Part Two
- 4 Physical Science in a Modern Mode
- 5 The Meaning of Life: Mechanism and Purpose in the Sciences of Life and Mind
- 6 Five Schools of Natural Theology: Reconciling Science and Religion
- 7 Against Agnosticism: Psychical Research and the Naturalisation of the Supernatural
- 8 Laboratories of Enchantment: Parapsychology in Search of a Paradigm
- 9 Professionals Out of the Ordinary: How Parapsychology Became a University Discipline
- 10 Esoteric Epistemologies
- 11 The Problems of a Gnostic Science: The Case of Theosophy’s Occult Chemistry
- 12 Perceiving Higher Worlds: Two Perspectives
- Conclusion: Implications for the Study of Science, Religion, and Esotericism
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.