Essays on women in Western esotericism : beyond seeresses and sea priestesses /: beyond seeresses and sea priestesses. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Amy Hale.
• Editors: Hale, Amy
• Contents: Table of Contents Introduction Amy Hale Part I: Race Place and Othering Chapter One: Jessica A. Albrecht: Mrs. Rosa Frances Swiney: Imperial Feminism and Eugenics in Theosophical Evolutionist Thought Chapter Two: Thea Wirsching: The Myth of Pamela Colman Smith's Blackness: Ethnic Impersonation in the Modern Esoteric Milieu Chapter Three: Diana Brown: 'Eastern Methods'/'Western Bodies': Dion Fortune's Shifting Positions on Yoga, 1929 -1940 Part II: Locating the Feminine Chapter Four: Michele Olzi: The Devil Wears Pink: The Representation and Role of Woman in the Occultism of Maria de Naglowska Chapter Five: Christa Shusko: The Power of Beauty: Eleanor Kirk's Feminine Esotericism Chapter Six: Jay Johnston: Painterly Desire: Ithell Colquhoun's Other-than-Human Art Part III: Rethinking Influence, Power and Authority Chapter Seven: Vivianne Crowley: Doreen Valiente: Unmotherly Mother of Modern Witchcraft Chapter Eight: Melvyn Draper: The Crucible of Modernity: Florence Farr & the Esoteric Woman Chapter Nine: Julia Phillips: Madeline Montalban: Magus of the Morning Star Chapter Ten: Deja Whitehouse: 'The Seeker' – Frieda Harris's Quest for Esoteric Fulfillment Chapter Eleven: Susan Johnston Graf : George Yeats: Amanuensis to Inner Plane Spirits Part IV: Embodiment Chapter Twelve: Elizabeth Lowry: 'Telling the World's Fortune': Eileen Garrett, Psychic Medium and Pioneer Parapsychologist. Chapter Thirteen: Marla Segol: How to Make a Magician: Kabbalah, Psychotherapy and the Mechanics of Syncretism in Colette Aboulker-Muscat's Waking Dreamwork Chapter Fourteen: Anne Parker Perkola: Dion Fortune and the Temples of the Numinous Chapter Fifteen: Minji Lee: True Knowledge of God Obscured in Mind and Body: Hildegard of Bingen's Medical and Religious Understanding of Adam's Fall Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 130; Occultism -- Western countries -- History; Women -- Religious life -- Western countries -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030768898
• Related ISBNs: 9783030768881
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