Polemical encounters esoteric discourse and its others / edited by Olav Hammer and Kocku von Stuckrad.
Abstract
In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie both the identities within and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history. From Jewish and Christian kabbalah through heretical discourse and interconfessional polemics in early modernity to the legitimization of esoteric identity in modern culture, the 12 chapters, accompanied by an editors’ introduction, provide a cornucopia of relevant cases that are interpreted in a framework of polemical discourse and ‘Othering’. This volume sheds new light on the ultimately polemical structure of western esotericism and thus opens new vistas for further research into esoteric discourse. Contents
Preliminary Material / O. Hammer and C.K.M. Von Stuckrad -- Introduction. Western Esotericism And Polemics -- Christian Kabbalah And Anti-Jewish Polemics: Pico In Context / Kocku Von Stuckrad -- Christian Orthodoxy And Jewish Kabbalah: Russian Mystics In The Search For Perennial Wisdom / Konstantin Burmistrov -- Adorno’S Kabbalah: Some Preliminary Observations / Steven M. Wasserstrom -- \'Authorized Guardians\': The Polemics Of Academic Scholars Of Jewish Mysticism Against Kabbalah Practitioners / Boaz Huss -- The Trouble With Images: Anti-Image Polemics And Western Esotericism / Wouter J. Hanegraaff -- Between Heresy And Orthodoxy: Alchemy And Piety In Late Sixteenth-Century Germany / Hanns-Peter Neumann -- Between Theosophy And Orthodox Christianity: Johann Salomo Semler’S Hermetic Religion / Peter Hanns Reill -- The Masonic Necromancer: Shifting Identities In The Lives Of Johann Georg Schrepfer / Renko Geffarth -- René Guénon And The Traditionalist Polemic / Brannon Ingram -- Contested Diviners: Verbal Battles Between Dowsers And Skeptics / Olav Hammer -- Seeking Ancient Wisdom In The New Age: New Age And Neognostic Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas / Dylan Burns -- United In Diversity, Divided From Within: The Dynamics Of Legitimation In Contemporary Witchcraft / Titus Hjelm -- Notes On Contributors / O. Hammer and C.K.M. Von Stuckrad -- Index / O. Hammer and C.K.M. Von Stuckrad.
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