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Gnosticism and the History of Religions: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation

Autor Prof David G. Robertson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2023
Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it was "essentialised" into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses. This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century. It uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals - practitioners and scholars - at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world.David G. Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350258594
ISBN-10: 1350258598
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Contributes to our understanding of the ongoing legacy of the "History of Religions" school and its theoretical assumptions

Notă biografică

David G. Robertson is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. He is co-founder of the Religious Studies Project, and co-editor of the journal Implicit Religion. He is the author of UFOs, the New Age and Conspiracy Theories (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor of After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies (2016) and the Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion (2018).

Cuprins

List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction: A Strange Charm1. Against All Heresies: Gnosticism before Modern Scholarship2. The Era of Gnosis Restored: Nineteenth-century Gnostics3. The Alien God: Gnosticism as Existentialism 4. A Crack in the Universe: Jung and the Eranos Circle5. No Texts, No History: Nag Hammadi 6. A Revolt Against History: Gnostic Scholarship After Nag Hammadi7. Tongues and Misunderstandings: Messina 19668. Takes a Gnostic to Find a Gnostic: Contemporary Gnostic Groups9. The Third Way: Gnosticism in Western Esotericism10. Knowledge of the Heart: The Gnostic New Age11. The Greatest Heresy: Jeffrey Kripal's Gnostic Scholarship12. Elite Knowledge: Gnosticism and the Study of ReligionBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

The book covers a lot of ground at high altitude and high speed ... Gnosticism and the History of Religions presents a story well worth telling ... Particularly valuable is Robertson's choice to bookend the more well-trodden territory of twentieth-century Continental thought with the chapters on the nineteenth-century currents anticipating the History of Religions school and the reception of academic scholarship in contemporary Gnostic religious movements.
In this valuable volume, David G. Robertson critically analyzes diverse constructions of "Gnosticism" with impressive insight and skill. This book is a unique contribution and deserves a place as essential reading for anyone with serious interest in the topic of "Gnosticism" so-called.
Both scholarly and accessible, David G. Robertson's book is challenging and original and will prove essential reading for students and scholars of "Gnosticism" alike for decades to come. David G. Robertson's work reconfigures how we speak about "Gnosticism," but perhaps more importantly, how we speak about religion and spirituality in the contemporary world. A must-read!