Gnostic Afterlives in American Religion and Culture
April DeConick, Jeffrey J. Kripalen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 noi 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004471931
ISBN-10: 9004471936
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
ISBN-10: 9004471936
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Notă biografică
April D. DeConick, Ph.D. (1994, University of Michigan), is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Rice University. She has published extensively on early Christianity, esotericism, mysticism, and Gnosticism, including The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today (Columbia University Press, 2016).
Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Programs in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. Jeff is the author of nine books, including, most recently, The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why It Matters (Penguin, 2020), where he envisions the future centrality and urgency of the humanities in conversation with the history of science, the philosophy of mind, and our shared ethical, political, and ecological challenges.
Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Programs in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. Jeff is the author of nine books, including, most recently, The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why It Matters (Penguin, 2020), where he envisions the future centrality and urgency of the humanities in conversation with the history of science, the philosophy of mind, and our shared ethical, political, and ecological challenges.
Cuprins
1 Introduction: Gnostic Afterlives in American Religion and Culture
April D. DeConick
Part 1: Theorizing the Gnostic in Modernity
2 The Sociology of Gnostic Spirituality
April D. DeConick
3 Can We Recover Gnosis Today?
Gregory Shaw
4 What Is Gnosis: An Exploration
Arthur Versluis
Part 2: (Neo-)Gnostic Movements in America
5 The Knowing of Knowing
Neo-Gnosticism, from the O.T.O. to Scientology
Hugh B. Urban
6 Know Place: Heaven’s Gate and American Gnosticism
Cathy Gutierrez
7 American Gnosis: Jesus Mysticism in A Course in Miracles
Simon J. Joseph
8 The New Age and Gnosticism: Terms of Commonality
Mitch Horowitz
Part 3: The Gnostic in Popular American Culture
9 The Gnostic in Us All: Thinking from the Macrobiotics of Michio Kushi
Catherine L. Albanese
10 The Space Jockey and the Future of Enjoyment: Alienated Sentience in the World of H. R. Giger
Eric Wargo
11 A Metaphysical Rebel? Camus’s Analysis of Gnosticism and Its Influence on Literature and Cinema
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
12 Eric Voegelin and Gnostic Hollywood
Fryderyk Kwiatkowski
13 The Afterlives of the Archons: Gnostic Literalism and Embodied Paranoia in 21st CE Conspiracy Theory
Matthew Dillon
14 The Electric Chrism Acid Test: The Problem of Psychedelic Gnosis
Erik Davis
15 Reflections of an American Gnostic
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Index