Author: Francis Foster Barham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Key to Alism and the Highest Initiations, Sacred and Secular
Author: Francis Foster Barham
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Anthropology and mysticism in the making of initiation
Author: Andy Hilton
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9086868967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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, evolution and contemporary idea of initiation. It traces origins in the ancient Mysteries and early Christian texts, through Renaissance rediscoveries to admission in Freemasonry and anthropological investigations in French Canada and British Australia. It introduces the 'initiation discourse', as something that was constructed through centuries of translations and nineteenth century human science leading to the making of the modern concept. It argues for a subject, 'initiation studies', that effectively secularised the eighteenth-century rites of admission to produce the twentieth-century rites of passage. And it details, as compensation for this hollowing out of the mystery, the study of shaman 'spirit-workers', the idea of death and rebirth, and the later sacralisation of the liminal in adolescent/adult initiation. Finally, a contemporary revision is explored that incorporates neglected aspects like depth psychology and education for an idea of youth as a life-stage. And while ritual is now deemphasised, the religious dimension is reaffirmed with a critical analysis of cosmic consciousness, the enduring Great Mystery.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9086868967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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, evolution and contemporary idea of initiation. It traces origins in the ancient Mysteries and early Christian texts, through Renaissance rediscoveries to admission in Freemasonry and anthropological investigations in French Canada and British Australia. It introduces the 'initiation discourse', as something that was constructed through centuries of translations and nineteenth century human science leading to the making of the modern concept. It argues for a subject, 'initiation studies', that effectively secularised the eighteenth-century rites of admission to produce the twentieth-century rites of passage. And it details, as compensation for this hollowing out of the mystery, the study of shaman 'spirit-workers', the idea of death and rebirth, and the later sacralisation of the liminal in adolescent/adult initiation. Finally, a contemporary revision is explored that incorporates neglected aspects like depth psychology and education for an idea of youth as a life-stage. And while ritual is now deemphasised, the religious dimension is reaffirmed with a critical analysis of cosmic consciousness, the enduring Great Mystery.
Bibliotheca Cornubiensis
Author: George Boase
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336882337X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336882337X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: A-O
Author: George Clement Boase
Publisher:
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Bibliotheca Somersetensis
Author: Emanuel Green
Publisher:
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Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Bibliotheca Somersetensis: Bath books. General introduction
Author: Emanuel Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Monthly Literary Advertiser
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: John Foster Kirk
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description