Anthropology and mysticism in the making of initiation : : A history of discourse and ideas for today /

Anthropology and mysticism in the making of initiation : : A history of discourse and ideas for today / / Andy Hilton.

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By the 1980s, interest in initiation was at its peak; it was being employed both theoretically and practically, in gender politics and humanistic therapy. How did that come to be, how should we understand 'initiation', and what can be its future? This wide-ranging book looks at the history...

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Hilton, Andy,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Wageningen Academic,, 2019.
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (332 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • Where did we get to?
  • The late twentieth-century peak of interest in initiation
  • Chapter 1. Myths of men, issues with gender and the adult-spiritual divide
  • Robert Bly, men and loss
  • Sex and gender
  • Divisions and categories of initiation
  • Part II
  • How did we get there?
  • Origins of the rites of passage
  • Chapter 2. Modern foundations of initiation
  • Ethnological origins in Australia
  • Back in the motherland
  • Histories of initiation histories
  • Chapter 3. Mysteries in the New World Encyclopaedias
  • Missionaries in the New World
  • Lafitau and the mysteries conception of tribal practice
  • Chapter 4. Ethnology and freemasonry
  • Initiation in freemasonry in ethnology
  • Currents and cross-currents
  • American freemasonry, ethnology and native fusion
  • Part III
  • From whence?
  • A history of mystery
  • Chapter 5. Mystic histories: esoterica and the ancients
  • Rosicrucian and Renaissance esotericism
  • Millennia of mysteries literature
  • Ancient texts and rituals
  • Chapter 6. Christian mysteries
  • Appropriation and suppression Early Christian initiations, initiation in Christianity
  • A complex and paradoxical history of discourse development
  • Chapter 7. Shamans, death and rebirth
  • Historical contexts
  • Shamans: outer Russia, out from Russia
  • Mircea Eliade
  • Part IV
  • So, where did we get to again?
  • Reassessing the mainstream
  • Chapter 8. Anthropology: the core thesis
  • Arnold van Gennep
  • Victor Turner
  • Chapter 9. Conventional history, contemporary studies
  • The primary thesis of decline and demise
  • Realities and representations today
  • Part V
  • Where then, where now? Expanding the vision for a contemporary, integrated approach
  • Chapter 10. Beyond anthropology
  • Education and Turnerian extensions
  • The ritual perspective
  • Chapter 11. Psychology: development and depth
  • Developmental lifespan studies
  • Initiation as life-stage
  • Analytical depth psychology
  • Chapter 12. From mysticism to cosmos
  • Modelling spiritual initiation
  • Cosmic initiation
  • Further considerations
  • Postscript
  • Awakening, ascension and the rebirth of initiation
  • Conclusion
  • A story of discourse
  • A potted history of initiation
  • Contemporary maturity initiation Reviewing mystery
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1. The emergence of initiation studies in British anthropology (1872-1899)
  • Methodology: article categorisation issues
  • Appendix 2. Usage of 'initiation' and selected terms in published works (1820-2008)
  • Appendix 3. Extract from Phaedrus, by Plato
  • Note on three texts/translations
  • Appendix 4. Six chronological schema for a staged lifespan (adding initiation)
  • Appendix 5. A model for mysticism as template for initiation
  • Note on the meaning of 'god'
  • References
  • Index
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