Innovation in esotericism from the Renaissance to the present. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Georgiana D. Hedesan, Tim Rudbøg.
• Editors: Hedesan, Georgiana D; Rudbøg, Tim
• Contents: Part 1: Early Modern Period (15th -18th Centuries) Angela Voss (Canterbury Christ Church University): ''Diligentia et divina sorte': Oracular Intelligence in Marsilio Ficino's Astral Magic' Georgiana D. Hedesan (University of Oxford): 'The Rise of the Term 'Adept' in Esoteric Usage: From Arabic Philosophy to Early Modern Alchemy' Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam): 'A Necessary Conjunction: Cabala, Magic and Alchemy in the Theosophy of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605' Christopher McIntosh (University of Bremen): 'The Rosicrucian Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century' Judith Mawer (University of Exeter): 'Thomas Vaughan's Magia Adamica (1650): A Vindication of Magic and Magicians' Jonathan Barry (University of Exeter): 'John Henderson (1757-1788) and the Changing Attitudes to the Occult in Enlightenment England' Part 2: Modern Period (19th Century – present) Jean-Pierre Brach (Paris-Sorbonne): 'Psychic Disciplines: The Magnetizer as Magician in the Writings of Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy (1796-1881)' Tim Rudbøg (University of Copenhagen): 'H. P. Blavatsky's 'Wisdom Religion' and the Quest for Ancient Wisdom in Western Culture' Julie Chajes (Tel Aviv University): 'Orientalist Aggregates: Theosophical Buddhism between Innovation and Tradition' Jeffrey D. Lavoie (Middlesex Community College): 'Theosophical Chronology in the Writings of Guido von List (1848–1919): A Link between H.P. Blavatsky's Philosophy and the Nazi Movement' Antoine Faivre (University of Paris-Sorbonne): 'On the Various Uses of the Tarot' Joscelyn Godwin (Colgate University), 'Afterword'.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 209; Cults -- History; Occultism -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030679064
• Related ISBNs: 9783030679057
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