Hidden intercourse: eros and sexuality in the history of Western esotericism
Analyzes the eroticism of the esoteric. This work aims to distinguish fact from fiction - only to find that historical realities are sometimes even stranger than the fantasies. It reveals the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries
| Summary: | Analyzes the eroticism of the esoteric. This work aims to distinguish fact from fiction - only to find that historical realities are sometimes even stranger than the fantasies. It reveals the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries Complications of Eros: The Song of Songs in John of Morigny's Liber fl orum celestis Doctrine (Claire Fanger)Under the Mantle of Love: The Mystical Eroticisms of Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno (Wouter J. Hanegraaff); Revealing Analogies: The Descriptive and Deceptive Roles of Sexuality and Gender in Latin Alchemy (Lawrence M. Principe); Probing Women and Penetrating Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Allison P. Coudert); Sensuous Relation with Sophia in Christian The. Contents; Introduction: Things We Do Not Talk About (Jeffrey J. Kripal and Wouter J. Hanegraaff); Sexuality and Sexual Symbolism in Hermetic and Gnostic Thought and Practice (Second-Fourth Centuries) (Roelof van den Broek); Conceiving Spirits: The Mystery of Valentinian Sex (April D. DeConick); Sexual Intercourse Between Humans and Demons in the Islamic Tradition (Pierre Lory); Murmuring Secrets: Eroticism and Esotericism in Medieval Kabbalah (Elliot R. Wolfson); Ta'anug: Erotic Delights from Kabbalah to Hasidism (Moshe Idel). |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 9047443586 |