Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions
"Contents" -- "Opening: âYou Should Write Fictionâ" -- "Corpus" -- "1. In the Land of Oz: Childhood and Adolescence" -- "Letter to the Editor: The Buyerâs Guide (1977)" -- "2. âMy Eros Has Been Crucifiedâ: Puberty, Asceticism, and Neur...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ History
/ Bodiliness
/ Sexual behavior
/ Mysticism
/ Occultism
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AZ New religious movements NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Sex--Religious aspects B Sex Religious aspects |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: Kripal, Jeffrey J: Secret Body : Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press,c2017. - 9780226126821 |
| Summary: | "Contents" -- "Opening: âYou Should Write Fictionâ" -- "Corpus" -- "1. In the Land of Oz: Childhood and Adolescence" -- "Letter to the Editor: The Buyerâs Guide (1977)" -- "2. âMy Eros Has Been Crucifiedâ: Puberty, Asceticism, and Neurosis" -- "On the Fiction of a Straight Jesus (2008)" -- "3. That Night: Wherein the Knowing Energies Zap Me" -- "The Preface that I Did Not Publish (ca. 1994)" -- "4. The Erotic Mystic: KÄlÄ«âs Child and the Backlash against It" -- "Secret Talk: Sexual Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Hindu Tantrism (2000)" -- "5. The Transmoral Mystic: What Both the Moralists and the Devotees Get Wrong" -- "Inside-Out, Outside-In: Existential Place and Academic Method in the Study of North American Guru Traditions (1999)" -- "6. How They Really Came to Their Ideas: The Deeper Roots of Thought and Theory" -- "The Visitation of the Stranger: On Some Mystical Dimensions of the History of Religions (1999)" -- "7. The Gnostic Reversal: The Snake That Bites Its Own Tail" -- "Gnosisssss: A Response to Wouter Hanegraaff (2008)" -- "8. Wendyâs Student: Mythical Paradox and Political Censorship" -- "Being Blake: Antinomian Thought, Counterculture, and the Art of the History of Religions (2010)" -- "Mysticum" -- "9. That Other Night: The Future of the Body and Evolutionary Esotericism" -- "Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (2007)" -- "10. The Filter Thesis: The Irreducible Nature of Mind and the Spirit of the Humanities" -- "An Island in Mind: Aldous Huxley and the Neurotheologian (2013)" -- "11. The Rise of the Paranormal: And Some Related X Factors in the Study of Religion" -- "Authors of the Impossible: Reading the Paranormal Writing Us (2010â2014)" -- "The Matter of Myth and the Myth of Matter (2011)" -- "12. La Pensée Surhumaine: Paraphysics, the Super Story, and Invisible Colleges". "Forbidden Science: A Late Night Chat with Jacques Vallée (january 24, 2012)" -- "La Madonna DellâUFO (2015)" -- "13. Comparing Religions in Public: Rural America, Evangelicals, and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities" -- "The Chess Game (February 22, 2015)" -- "14. The Super Natural: Biological Gods, the Traumatic Secret, and the Future (of) Race" -- "Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieberâs Communion (2015)" -- "Meum" -- "15. The New Comparativism: What It Is and How to Do It" -- "Transmigration and Cultural Transmission: Comparing Anew with Ian Stevenson (2017)" -- "Closing: What the New Sacred Is (Not)" -- "Airport Afterword" -- "Appendix: The Gnomons" -- "The Method of All Methods" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Notes |
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| ISBN: | 022649148X |