Polemical encounters: esoteric discourse and its others

CONTENTS; Introduction: Western Esotericism and Polemics --- Olav Hammer and Kocku von Stuckrad; PART ONE KABBALAH IN POLEMICAL PERSPECTIVE; Christian Kabbalah and Anti-Jewish Polemics: Pico in Context --- Kocku von Stuckrad; Christian Orthodoxy and Jewish Kabbalah: Russian Mystics in the Search for...

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Contributors: Hammer, Olav 1958- (Other) ; Stuckrad, Kocku von 1966- (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2007
In:Year: 2007
Series/Journal:Aries book series 1871-1405 v. 6
Aries book series v. 6
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Esotericism / Occultism / Polemics / Religious conflict
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Esotericism
B Occultism History
B BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Occultism
B History
B BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Supernatural
B Religious conflict
B BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Reference
B BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Parapsychology ; General
B Polemics
B BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Mysticism
B Occultism
B Electronic books Collection of essays History
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Summary:CONTENTS; Introduction: Western Esotericism and Polemics --- Olav Hammer and Kocku von Stuckrad; PART ONE KABBALAH IN POLEMICAL PERSPECTIVE; Christian Kabbalah and Anti-Jewish Polemics: Pico in Context --- Kocku von Stuckrad; Christian Orthodoxy and Jewish Kabbalah: Russian Mystics in the Search for Perennial Wisdom --- Konstantin Burmistrov; Adorno's Kabbalah: Some Preliminary Observations --- Steven M. Wasserstrom; "Authorized Guardians": The Polemics of Academic Scholars of Jewish Mysticism against Kabbalah Practitioners --- Boaz Huss.
In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie esoteric identities and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history
PART TWO HERESIES, IDENTITIES, AND INTERCONFESSIONAL POLEMICSThe Trouble With Images: Anti-Image Polemics and Western Esotericism --- Wouter J. Hanegraaff; Between Heresy and Orthodoxy: Alchemy and Piety in Late Sixteenth-Century Germany --- Hanns-Peter Neumann; Between Theosophy and Orthodox Christianity: Johann Salomo Semler's Hermetic Religion --- Peter Hanns Reill; The Masonic Necromancer: Shifting Identities in the Lives of Johann Georg Schrepfer --- Ren.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
ISBN:9047431510