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Claiming Knowledge : Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age
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ISSN: 15709434 ISBN: 9004120165 9004493999 9789004120167 9789004493995 Year: 2001 Volume: 90 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

Claiming knowledge : strategies of epistemology from theosophy to the New Age
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ISBN: 900413638X 9789004136380 9786610465286 1423714504 128046528X 9047403371 9781423714507 9789047403371 Year: 2004 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This volume deals with the transformation of religious creativity in the late modern West. Its point of departure is a set of esoteric beliefs, from Theosophy to the New Age. It shows how these traditions have adapted to the cultural givens of each successive epoch. The claims of each movement have been buttressed by drawing on various structural characteristics of late modernity. The advance of science has resulted in attempts to claim scientific status for religious beliefs. Globalization has given rise to massive loans from other cultures, but also to various strategies to radically reinterpret foreign elements. Individualism has led to an increasing reliance on experience as a source of legitimacy. The analytical tools applied to understanding religious modernization shed light on changes that are fundamentally reshaping many religious traditions. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.


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Alternative Christs.
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ISBN: 9781107651890 9780521889025 0521889022 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press


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Religious innovation in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
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ISBN: 1009030108 1009015257 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The scholarly study of new religious movements focuses on the contemporary period, but religious innovation is nothing new. This Element explores a historical epoch characterized by a multitude of emergent religious concepts and practices - the Hellenistic and Roman periods. A precondition for the intense degree of religious innovation during this time was a high level of cultural exchange. Religious elements crossed porous cultural borders and were adapted to suit new purposes. The resulting amalgams were presented in a vast corpus of texts, largely produced by a literate elite. Charismatic leaders played a particularly important role in creating new religious options and were described in genres that were infused with ideological agendas. Novel religious developments were accepted by the Roman authorities unless suspected of undermining the social order. The rise of one of the many new religions of the period, Christianity, ultimately changed the religious landscape in profound ways.

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Cults --- History --- Greece --- Rome --- Religion.


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The Cambridge companion to new religious movements
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ISBN: 1107480221 1107484391 1139022652 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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New religions emerge as distinct entities in the religious landscape when innovations are introduced by a charismatic leader or a schismatic group leaves its parent organization. New religious movements (NRMs) often present novel doctrines and advocate unfamiliar modes of behavior, and have therefore often been perceived as controversial. NRMs have, however, in recent years come to be treated in the same way as established religions, that is, as complex cultural phenomena involving myths, rituals and canonical texts. This Companion discusses key features of NRMs from a systematic, comparative perspective, summarizing results of forty years of research. The volume addresses NRMs that have caught media attention, including movements such as Scientology, New Age, the Neopagans, the Sai Baba movement and Jihadist movements active in a post-9/11 context. An essential resource for students of religious studies, the history of religion, sociology, anthropology and the psychology of religion.

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Cults.


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Religion and identity politics : defining "acceptable" and "unacceptable" religion
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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Western esotericism in Scandinavia
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ISBN: 9789004302419 Year: 2016 Publisher: Boston : Brill,

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Occultism --- Occultisme


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Handbook of the theosophical current
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ISBN: 9789004235960 9789004235977 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Theosophy --- Théosophie --- History. --- Histoire


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Handbook of the theosophical current
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ISSN: 18746691 ISBN: 9004235973 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 7 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Few religious currents have been as influential as the Theosophical. Yet few currents have been so under-researched, and the Brill Handbook of the Theosophical Current thus represents pioneering research. A first section surveys the main people and events involved in the Theosophical Society from its inception to today, and outlines the Theosophical worldview. A second, substantial section covers most significant religions to emerge in the wake of the Theosophical Society - Anthroposophy, the Point Loma community, the I AM religious activity, the Summit Lighthouse Movement, the New Age, theosophical UFO religions, and numerous others. Finally, the interaction of the Theosophical current with contemporary culture - including gender relations, art, popular fiction, historiography, and science - are discussed at length.

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Theosophy --- History.


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Western esotericism in Scandinavia
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ISBN: 9004325964 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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This is the first encyclopaedic work on Western esotericism in Scandinavia. Structured along the lines of the Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericsm (2005), it contains over 80 articles written by 47 specialists. It consists of critical overviews of all the major esoteric currents in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, ranging from Alchemy, Anthroposophy, and Astrology, to Theosophy, Traditionalism, and UFO Movements. This ground-breaking work is of relevance not only for scholars and students of Western esotericism, but for all with an interest in alternative religious traditions and Scandinavian intellectual history.

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Occultism

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