Télécharger le livre :  Subversive Esotericism and Aesthetic Radicalism

In this book, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionists—a group of Austrian neo-avant-garde artists, infamous for their transgressive performance art. Addressing this frequently overlooked aspect of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Essays on Women in Western Esotericism

This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in Western Esotericism while also highlighting women’s scholarship. In addition to providing a critical examination of important and under researched figures in the history of Western Esotericism, these...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-05-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Esoteric Transfers and Constructions

Similarities between esoteric and mystical currents in different religious traditions have long interested scholars. This book takes a new look at the relationship between such currents. It advances a discussion that started with the search for religious essences,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-02-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  The Occult Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-01-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mystical Geography of Quebec

This study of new religious movements in Quebec focuses on nine groups—including the notoriously violent Solar Temple; the iconoclastic Temple of Priapus; and the various “Catholic” schisms, such as those led by a mystical pope; the Holy Spirit incarnate; or the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema

Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated by the occult movements of their day. This volume explores how Occultism came to shape modernist art, literature, and film. Individual chapters examine the presence and role of Occultism in the work of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway, and Sweden

This is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThe history of Charismatic Christianity in the Nordic countries reaches as far back as Pentecostalism itself. The bounds of these categories remain a topic of discussion, but Nordic countries have played a vital role in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-13
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Female Leaders in New Religious Movements

In this book, historians of religion and gender studies explore the biographies of a number of female leaders, and the factors within their groups and cultural contexts that support these women’s religious leadership. New Religious Movements have been supportive of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions

This book explores manifestations of creativity in the religious domain. Specifically, the contributions focus on the nexus of the sacred and the creative, and the mechanisms of syncretism and (re)invention of tradition by which this manifestations occur.  The...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism

This volume explores how Pagans negotiate local and global tensions as they craft their identities, both as members of local communities and as cosmopolitan “citizens of the world.” Based on cutting edge international  case studies from Pagan communities in the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities in Israel

This volume is the first English-language anthology to engage with the fascinating phenomena of recent surges in New Age and alternative spiritualties in Israel. Contributors investigate how these New Age religions and other spiritualties—produced in Western countries...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Sexuality and New Religious Movements

Issues relating to sexuality, eroticism and gender are often connected to religious beliefs and practices, but also to prejudices against and fear of religious groups that adopt alternative approaches to sexuality. This is especially apparent in connection with new...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Nordic Neoshamanisms

This book proposes that the drive for religiosity and experiences of the sacred are far from lost in contemporary western societies. The contributors' objective is to explore the myriad of ways late modern shamanism is becoming more vital and personally significant to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-02-18
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading and Writing Scripture in New Religious Movements

New religious movements both read the Bible in creative ways and produce their own texts that aspire to scriptural status. From the creation stories in Genesis and the Ten Commandments to the life of Jesus and the apocalypse, they develop their self-understandings...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  India and the Occult

India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality among Western occultists through case studies. Rather than focusing on the activities of Theosophical Society,India and the Occult looks at the 'hard-core' occultism, in particular the British 20th...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-05-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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Télécharger le livre :  A Study of the Movement of Spiritual Awareness

MSIA, the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, has been called the Cadillac of cults. Those interested in new religions may only know of MSIA from these kinds of labels. However, when looked at from a qualitative sociological perspective, a more complex story of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-18
Collection : Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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