Gnosticism and the history of religions
"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 ?in...
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Bloomsbury Academic
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | Scientific studies of religion: inquiry and explanation
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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