Format:
1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350137721
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1350137693
Series Statement:
Scientific studies of religion: inquiry and explanation
Content:
Introduction -- 1. Against All Heresies: Gnosticism before Modern Scholarship -- 2. The Era of Gnosis Restored: Nineteenth-century Gnostics -- 3. The Alien God: Gnosticism as Existentialism -- 4. Elite Knowledge: Jung and the Eranos Circle -- 5. No Texts, No History: Nag Hammadi -- 6. Tongues and misunderstandings: Messina 1966 and the Birth of the IAHR -- 7. The Serpent That Eats its Own Tail: Contemporary Gnostic Scholarship -- 8. The Perfect Matrimony: Contemporary Gnosticism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"Gnosticism, as a category in religious studies - and public discourse - is inexorably entangled with the phenomenological "History of Religions" school. Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was ?invented?, this work focuses on the following stage in which it is ?essentialised? into a sui generis , universal category of religion. At the same time, Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses. This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century. It uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals - practitioners and scholars - at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world. David Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contribute to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350137691
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350137707
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350137691
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350137691
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350137721
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