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  • Contemporary Esotericism

    by Egil Asprem, Kennet Granholm ...
    Series series Gnostica
    The study of contemporary esoteric discourse has hitherto been a largely neglected part of the new academic field of Western esotericism. Contemporary Esotericism provides a broad overview and assessment of the complex world of Western esoteric thought today. Combining historiographical analysis with theories and methodologies from the social sciences, the volume explores new problems and offers ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Problem of Disenchantment

    Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939

    by Egil Asprem ...
    Series series SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
    Challenges the conventional view of a "disenchanted" and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world.Max Weber famously characterized the ongoing process of intellectualization and rationalization that separates the natural world from the divine (by excluding magic and value from the realm of science, and reason ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Arguing with Angels

    Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture

    by Egil Asprem ...
    Series series SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
    An exploration of John Dee's Enochian magic of angel contact, its reinterpretation over the years, and its endurance to the present day.This fascinating work explores John Dee's Enochian magic and the history of its reception. Dee (1527–1608/9), an accomplished natural philosopher and member of Queen Elizabeth I's court, was also an esoteric researcher whose diaries detail years of conversations ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories

    Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends

    Edited by Francesco Piraino, Marco Pasi, Egil Asprem ...
    Series series Conspiracy Theories
    Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the religious and esoteric dimensions of conspiracy theories.The book examines both historical and contemporary examples to explore transnational and transhistorical continuities between religious doctrines, eschatologies, and conspiracy theories. It draws on a broad range of disciplinary ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The Occult World

    Edited by Christopher Partridge ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The New Age in the Modern West

    Counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day

    by Dr Nicholas Campion ...
    New Age culture is generally regarded as a modern manifestation of Western millenarianism - a concept built around the expectation of an imminent historical crisis followed by the inauguration of a golden age which occupies a key place in the history of Western ideas. The New Age in the Modern West argues that New Age culture is part of a family of ideas, including utopianism, which construct ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Individual and Utopia

    A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection

    by Clint Jones, Cameron Ellis ...
    Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Comparing Religions

    by Jeffrey J. Kripal ...
    Comparing Religions is a next-generation textbook which expertly guides, inspires, and challenges those who wish to think seriously about religious pluralism in the modern world.A unique book teaching the art and practice of comparing religionsDraws on a wide range of religious traditions to demonstrate the complexity and power of comparative practicesProvides both a history and understanding of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Reinventing Knowledge

    From Alexandria to the Internet

    by Ian F. McNeely, Lisa Wolverton ...
    A dazzling intellectual history of the West served up with verve and insight by two brilliant young historians.Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating history alights at the pivotal points of cultural transformation. The motivating question ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Study of Religion

    An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods

    by George D. Chryssides, Professor Ron Geaves ...
    This updated textbook unravels the complex issues related to methodology and theory in the study of religion. It equips students with the knowledge needed for the academic study of religion, explaining the history of the methodology, including ideas of key theorists, and discusses key issues in the field, such as gender, phenomenology, and the insider/outsider discourse.Updated throughout, ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Shipwrecked Mind

    On Political Reaction

    by Mark Lilla ...
    Covering centuries of thought and politics, this collection of essays “offers a fascinating framework for making sense of our contemporary political landscape” (Vox).“Skillfully untangles the apocalyptic ‘mytho-histories,’ ‘just-so narratives,’ and ‘political bedtime stories’ favored by the modern right, in Europe and America.” —The New YorkerWe don’t understand the reactionary mind. In this ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Ritual : Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    by Catherine Bell ...
    From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet in many ways equally legitimate interpretations ritual seems to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD