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Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present Georgiana D. Hedesan

Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present By Georgiana D. Hedesan

Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present by Georgiana D. Hedesan

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This collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, it covers many different fields and themes including magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Tarot, apocalypticism and eschatology, Mesmerism, occultism, prophecy, and mysticism.

Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present Summary

Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present by Georgiana D. Hedesan

This collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism. It illustrates how innovation is a mechanism of negotiation whereby an idea is either produced against, or adapted from, an older set of concepts in order to respond to a present context. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, it covers many different fields and themes including magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Tarot, apocalypticism and eschatology, Mesmerism, occultism, prophecy, and mysticism.

Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present Reviews

The volume is dedicated to the memory of Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke, a leading scholar of esotericism, and contains a Foreword about him written by Joscelyn Godwin. The volume transcends the boundaries of historical periodization and successfully introduces the notion of innovation to the scholarship of esotericism. (Mriganka Mukhopadhyay, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 49 (1), March, 2023)

About Georgiana D. Hedesan

Georgiana D. Hedesan is Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge: The Christian Philosophy of Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) (2016).

Tim Rudbg is Associate Professor and Director of the Copenhagen Center for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His recent co-edited book Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society was published in 2020.


Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Angela Voss (Canterbury Christ Church University): Diligentia et divina sorte: Oracular Intelligence in Marsilio Ficinos Astral Magic'.- Chapter 2: Georgiana D. Hedesan (University of Oxford): The Rise of the Term Adept in Esoteric Usage: From Arabic Philosophy to Early Modern Alchemy.- Chapter 3: Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam): A Necessary Conjunction: Cabala, Magic and Alchemy in the Theosophy of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605.- Chapter 4: Christopher McIntosh (University of Bremen): The Rosicrucian Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century.- Chapter 5: Judith Mawer (University of Exeter): Thomas Vaughans Magia Adamica (1650): A Vindication of Magic and Magicians. Chapter 6: Jonathan Barry (University of Exeter): John Henderson (1757-1788) and the Changing Attitudes to the Occult in Enlightenment England.- Chapter 7: Jean-Pierre Brach (Paris-Sorbonne): Psychic Disciplines: The Magnetizer as Magician in the Writings of Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy (1796-1881).- Chapter 8: Tim Rudbg (University of Copenhagen): H. P. Blavatskys Wisdom Religion and the Quest for Ancient Wisdom in Western Culture.- Chapter 9: Julie Chajes (Tel Aviv University): Orientalist Aggregates: Theosophical Buddhism between Innovation and Tradition.- Chapter 9: Jeffrey D. Lavoie (Middlesex Community College): Theosophical Chronology in the Writings of Guido von List (18481919): A Link between H.P. Blavatskys Philosophy and the Nazi Movement.- Chapter 10: Antoine Faivre (University of Paris-Sorbonne): On the Various Uses of the Tarot.- Chapter 11: Joscelyn Godwin (Colgate University), Afterword.

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NPB9783030679057
9783030679057
3030679055
Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present by Georgiana D. Hedesan
Georgiana D. Hedesan
Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021-05-11
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