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Gnostic Countercultures: Terror and Intrigue

April DeConick, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iul 2020
In Gnostic Countercultures, fourteen scholars investigate countercultural aspects associated with the gnostic which is broadly conceived with reference to the claim to have special knowledge of the divine, which either transcends or transgresses conventional religious knowledge. The papers explore the concept of the gnostic in Western culture from the ancient world to the modern New Age. Contributors trace the emergence, persistence, and disappearance of gnostic religious currents that are perceived to be countercultural, inverted, transgressive and/or subversive in their relationship to conventional religions and their claims to knowledge. The essays represent a selection of the papers delivered at the international congress Gnostic Countercultures: Terror and Intrigue convened at Rice University, March 26-28, 2015. The essays were originally published in Gnosis 1.1-2 (2016) and are available for the first time under separate cover.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004436985
ISBN-10: 9004436987
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.48 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).

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Ph.D. (1997, University Complutense; 2004, University of Groningen) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Groningen. He is the author of numerous studies on Greco-Roman Philosophy; Early Christianity, Early Christian Apocrypha, Gnosticism, and Plutarch of Chaeronea.

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Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Antiquity


The Countercultural Gnostic: Turning the World Upside Down and Inside Out
April D. DeConick

“I Turned away from the Temple”: Sethian Counterculture in the Apocryphon of John
Grant Adamson

Transgressing Boundaries: Plotinus and the Gnostics
John D. Turner

Forbidden Knowledge: Cognitive Transgression and “Ascent Above Intellect” in the Debate Between Plotinus and the Gnostics
Zeke Mazur

The Apocalypse of Paul (NHC V,2): Cosmology, Anthropology, and Ethics
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta

Gnosis Undomesticated: Archon-Seduction, Demon Sex, and Sodomites in the Paraphrase of Shem (NHC VII,1)
Dylan M. Burns

Gnostic Self-Deification: The Case of Simon of Samaria
M. David Litwa

Demon est Deus Inversus: Honoring the Daemonic in Iamblichean Theurgy
Gregory Shaw

The Coming of the Star-Child: The Reception of the Revelation of the Magi in New Age Religious Thought and Ufology
Brent Landau

Part 2: Modernity


The Great God Pan
Sarah Iles Johnston

Alan Moore’s Promethea: Countercultural Gnosis and the End of the World
Wouter J. Hanegraaff

Children of the Light: Gnostic Fiction and Gnostic Practice in Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice Trilogy
Victoria Nelson

Symbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of Gnosticism
Matthew J. Dillon

Gnostic and Countercultural Elements in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Hoodoo in America”
Margarita Simon Guillory

Index 317