The subtle body: a genealogy

"How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages many religions and intellectual movements have posed answers to this question. Many have gravitated to the notion of the subtle body, positing some kind of subtle entity that is neither soul nor body, but some mixture of the two. This book...

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1. VerfasserIn: Cox, Simon 1966- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2022]
In:Jahr: 2022
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Oxford studies in western esotericism
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Leib-Seele-Problem / Astralleib / Geschichte
B Orientalismus (Kulturwissenschaften) / Esoterik / Leib-Seele-Problem / Astralleib
weitere Schlagwörter:B Astral body
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Parallele Ausgabe:Elektronisch
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Zusammenfassung:"How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages many religions and intellectual movements have posed answers to this question. Many have gravitated to the notion of the subtle body, positing some kind of subtle entity that is neither soul nor body, but some mixture of the two. This book traces the history of this idea from the late Roman empire to the present day, touching on how philosophers, wizards, scholars, occultists, psychologists, and mystics have engaged with the idea over the past two thousand years. The book begins in the late Roman Empire, moving chronologically through the Renaissance, British project of colonial Indology, development of Theosophy and occultism in the 19th century through to the Euro-American counterculture of the 1960's and 70's"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:019758103X