Author: Brian J. Gibbons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought
Author: Brian J. Gibbons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought
Author: Brian J. Gibbons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An evaluation of the intellectual legacy in England of the ideas of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An evaluation of the intellectual legacy in England of the ideas of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624).
Women, Gender, and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe
Author: Sylvia Monica Brown
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004163069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004163069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation.
Spirituality and the Occult
Author: Brian Gibbons
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134541481
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as: * medicine * science * philosophy * Freudian and Jungian psychology * radical political movements * imaginative literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134541481
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as: * medicine * science * philosophy * Freudian and Jungian psychology * radical political movements * imaginative literature.
Women Prophets and Radical Protestantism in the British Atlantic World, 1640–1730
Author: Elizabeth Bouldin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095514
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This book analyzes how women negotiated and shaped ideas about community in the British Atlantic world through claims of revelation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095514
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This book analyzes how women negotiated and shaped ideas about community in the British Atlantic world through claims of revelation.
William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity
Author: Robert Rix
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351872958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This study traces the links between William Blake's ideas and radical Christian cultures in late eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a significant number of historical sources, Robert W. Rix examines how Blake and his contemporaries re-appropriated the sources they read within new cultural and political frameworks. By unravelling their strategies, the book opens up a new perspective on what has often been seen as Blake's individual and idiosyncratic ideas. We are also presented with the first comprehensive study of Blake's reception of Swedenborgianism. At the time Blake took an interest in Emanuel Swedenborg, the mystical and spiritual writings of the theosophist had become a platform for radical and revolutionary politics, as well as numerous heterodox practices, among his followers in England. Rix focuses on Swedenborgianism as a concrete and identifiable sub-culture from which a number of essential themes in Blake's works are reassessed. This book will appeal not only to Blake scholars, but to anyone studying the radical and sub- culture, religious, intellectual and cultural history of this period.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351872958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This study traces the links between William Blake's ideas and radical Christian cultures in late eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a significant number of historical sources, Robert W. Rix examines how Blake and his contemporaries re-appropriated the sources they read within new cultural and political frameworks. By unravelling their strategies, the book opens up a new perspective on what has often been seen as Blake's individual and idiosyncratic ideas. We are also presented with the first comprehensive study of Blake's reception of Swedenborgianism. At the time Blake took an interest in Emanuel Swedenborg, the mystical and spiritual writings of the theosophist had become a platform for radical and revolutionary politics, as well as numerous heterodox practices, among his followers in England. Rix focuses on Swedenborgianism as a concrete and identifiable sub-culture from which a number of essential themes in Blake's works are reassessed. This book will appeal not only to Blake scholars, but to anyone studying the radical and sub- culture, religious, intellectual and cultural history of this period.
Under the Veil
Author: Katherine M. Quinsey
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443839353
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For women in early modern Europe, the Reformation and the Enlightenment entailed both new freedom and new restrictions. In response to an ideology that immured the female mind and spirit inside the body, women found in religion a hope for individual freedom, a sense of self-identity, and a justification for gender equality. Under the Veil: Feminism and Spirituality in Post-Reformation Europe invokes the veil’s dual significance, as the marker of the religious woman, and as the metaphoric veil separating female interior life from its public construction. This collection of nine essays focuses specifically on the direct links between emergent feminism and religious faith as experienced through wide cultural, geographic, and confessional differences, united by themes of female subjectivity, selfhood, autonomy, and community. The essays range in topic and scope from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, across Europe, Britain, and North America, through a wide range of experiences and written accounts – its subjects are Philadelphian visionaries and Quaker missionaries, Iroquois leaders and early Canadian nuns, Islamic societies and European female travellers, French mystics and educators, and British writers and intellectuals. These accounts reveal how women across a wide spectrum of formal beliefs and cultural backgrounds found in religion a way to negotiate the restrictions of their outward lives, and a radical source of personal and collective independence and value.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443839353
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For women in early modern Europe, the Reformation and the Enlightenment entailed both new freedom and new restrictions. In response to an ideology that immured the female mind and spirit inside the body, women found in religion a hope for individual freedom, a sense of self-identity, and a justification for gender equality. Under the Veil: Feminism and Spirituality in Post-Reformation Europe invokes the veil’s dual significance, as the marker of the religious woman, and as the metaphoric veil separating female interior life from its public construction. This collection of nine essays focuses specifically on the direct links between emergent feminism and religious faith as experienced through wide cultural, geographic, and confessional differences, united by themes of female subjectivity, selfhood, autonomy, and community. The essays range in topic and scope from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, across Europe, Britain, and North America, through a wide range of experiences and written accounts – its subjects are Philadelphian visionaries and Quaker missionaries, Iroquois leaders and early Canadian nuns, Islamic societies and European female travellers, French mystics and educators, and British writers and intellectuals. These accounts reveal how women across a wide spectrum of formal beliefs and cultural backgrounds found in religion a way to negotiate the restrictions of their outward lives, and a radical source of personal and collective independence and value.
The Pietist Theologians
Author: Carter Lindberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470776811
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to the Pietist theologians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Puritan England, Pietist Europe and Colonial America. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the Pietist theologians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Demonstrates the influence that Pietism had on the religious, cultural and social life of the time. Explores the lasting effects Pietism has had on modern theology and modern culture. Presents both Protestant and Catholic theologians in Puritan England, Pietist Europe and Colonial America. Focuses on women as well as men. Features up-to-date research and commentary by an international group of leading scholars.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470776811
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to the Pietist theologians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Puritan England, Pietist Europe and Colonial America. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the Pietist theologians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Demonstrates the influence that Pietism had on the religious, cultural and social life of the time. Explores the lasting effects Pietism has had on modern theology and modern culture. Presents both Protestant and Catholic theologians in Puritan England, Pietist Europe and Colonial America. Focuses on women as well as men. Features up-to-date research and commentary by an international group of leading scholars.
Raising Spirits
Author: J. Barry
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137378948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137378948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.
F. C. Baur's Synthesis of Böhme and Hegel
Author: Corneliu Simut
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004275215
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this book, Professor Simuț shows how Christian theology started to be understood as a Gnostic philosophy of religion in the thought of the 19th-century scholar F. C. Baur. Although Baur was seen traditionally as a theologian and biblical exegete, Simuț argues that he was in fact a philosopher of religion, and it was his philosophical reading of Christian theology that informed his biblical preoccupations. Specifically, Baur’s perspective on Christian theology was heavily influenced by Jakob Böhme’s esoteric theosophy and Hegel’s religious philosophy in some key issues such as creation, Lucifer, dualism and the connection between spirit and matter coupled with that between philosophy and religion.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004275215
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this book, Professor Simuț shows how Christian theology started to be understood as a Gnostic philosophy of religion in the thought of the 19th-century scholar F. C. Baur. Although Baur was seen traditionally as a theologian and biblical exegete, Simuț argues that he was in fact a philosopher of religion, and it was his philosophical reading of Christian theology that informed his biblical preoccupations. Specifically, Baur’s perspective on Christian theology was heavily influenced by Jakob Böhme’s esoteric theosophy and Hegel’s religious philosophy in some key issues such as creation, Lucifer, dualism and the connection between spirit and matter coupled with that between philosophy and religion.