Part I. Antiquity: 1. Ancient mysteries Charles Stein; 2. Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism Joscelyn Godwin; 3. Parmenides and Empedocles Jessica Elbert Decker and Matthew Mayock; 4. Plato, Plotinus, and Neoplatonism Gwenaëlle Aubry; 5. Hermetism and Gnosticism Roelof van den Broek; 6. Early Jewish mysticism Daphna Arbel; 7. Early Christian mysticism April D. Deconick; Part II. The Middle Ages: 8. Sufism William C. Chittick; 9. Kabbalah Brian Ogren; 10. Medieval Christian mysticism Bruce Milem; 11. Hildegard of Bingen and women's mysticism Anne L. Clark; Part III. The Renaissance and Early Modernity: 12. Renaissance Hermetism Antoine Faivre; 13. Christian Kabbalah Peter J. Forshaw; 14. Paracelsianism Bruce T. Moran; 15. Rosicrucianism Hereward Tilton; 16. Jacob Boehme and Christian theosophy Glenn Alexander Magee; 17. Freemasonry Jan A. M. Snoek; 18. Swedenborg and Swedenborgianism Jane Williams-Hogan; 19. Mesmer and animal magnetism Adam Crabtree; Part IV. The Nineteenth Century and Beyond: 20. Spiritualism Cathy Gutierrez; 21. H. P. Blavatsky and theosophy Michael Gomes; 22. Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy Robert McDermott; 23. The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O. Egil Asprem; 24. G. I. Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way Glenn Alexander Magee; 25. C. G. Jung and Jungianism Gerhard Wehr; 26. René Guénon and traditionalism Mark Sedgwick; 27. Via Negativa in the twentieth century Arthur Versluis; 28. Contemporary Paganism Chas S. Clifton; 29. The new age Olav Hammer; Part V. Common Threads: 30. Alchemy Lawrence M. Principe; 31. Astrology Kocku von Stuckrad; 32. Gnosis Wouter J. Hanegraaff; 33. Magic Wouter J. Hanegraaff; 34. Mathematical esotericism Jean-Pierre Brach; 35. Panpsychism Lee Irwin; 36. Sexuality Hugh B. Urban.
This Handbook is unique in treating Western mysticism and esotericism together - two distinct, yet intimately related fields.
Glenn Alexander Magee is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University, New York. He is the author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001) and The Hegel Dictionary (2011), as well as many articles on German philosophy and its connections with mysticism and esotericism.
'Glenn Alexander Magee has brought together a 'dream team' of
scholars, and from an impressively broad range of generations, from
esteemed senior doyens to emerging young intellectuals about to
reshape the conversation once again. Magee also brings his own
trademark philosophical clarity to the definitional and historical
tasks at hand. The result is a cutting-edge collection of essays
that delivers exactly what it promises: a concise and clear map of
the hidden intellectual tradition of the West from ancient Greece
to today.' Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of
Religion, Rice University, Houston, and author of The Serpent's
Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion
'This long-overdue collection contains work of the best minds of
the field and is certain to advance current research in Western
esotericism. A must purchase.' David Appelbaum, State University of
New York, New Paltz
'It is impossible to understand our civilization without awareness
of the immense influence upon it of mystical and esoteric ideas and
practices. This generous collection of scholarly essays at last
offers reliable support for the academic study of humanity's
age-old and contemporary quest for higher levels of consciousness.'
Jacob Needleman, San Francisco State University
'Contributors to this handbook are world-class - writers such as
Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Kocku von Stuckrad, Antoine Faivre and
Arthur Versluis. Each has written magisterially about the content
and place of mysticism and esotericism, making this not merely an
arcane field of intellectual inquiry but a living and contended
area where theologians and historians, anthropologists and students
of cultural and religious history engage and should do so. As
exemplars of inquiry in their own right, the essays are excellent,
thoughtfully expressed and contentious where they need to be,
unpacking complex ideas such as those of Boehme and Swedenborg
elegantly.' Stuart Hannabuss, Reference Reviews
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