Hermes explains: thirty questions about Western esotericism ; celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam
Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism. For twenty years now, the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (University of Amsterdam) has been at the forefront of international scholarshi...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
[2019]
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Esotericism
/ Hermetic philosophy
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| RelBib Classification: | AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
Conference program 2019 (Amsterdam)
B Festschrift |
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| Summary: | Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism. For twenty years now, the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (University of Amsterdam) has been at the forefront of international scholarship in this domain. This anniversary volume seeks to make the modern study of Western esotericism more widely known beyond specialist circles, while addressing a range of misconceptions, biases, and prejudices that still tend to surround it. Thirty-one major scholars in the field respond to questions about a wide range of unfamiliar ideas, traditions, practices, problems, and personalities that are central to the field. By challenging many taken-for-granted assumptions about religion, science, philosophy, and the arts, this volume demonstrates why the modern study of esotericism leads us to reconsider much that we thought we knew about the story of Western culture |
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| Item Description: | "The ESSWE has already organised seven international biannual conferences, of which the latest one (Amsterdam 2019) coincides with the twenty-year anniversary of HHP and the publication of this volume" (Seite 10) |
| ISBN: | 9463720200 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5117/9789463720205 |