Spirituality and the Occult

Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as:
* medicine
* science
* philosophy
* Freudian and Jungian psychology
* radical political movements
* imaginative literature.

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Spirituality and the Occult

Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as:
* medicine
* science
* philosophy
* Freudian and Jungian psychology
* radical political movements
* imaginative literature.

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Spirituality and the Occult

Spirituality and the Occult

by Brian Gibbons
Spirituality and the Occult

Spirituality and the Occult

by Brian Gibbons

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Spirituality and the Occult argues against the widely held view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Showing that the esoteric tradition is unfairly neglected in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives at least in part from this tradition, it casts a fresh, intriguing and persuasive perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West. Brian Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in disciplines such as:
* medicine
* science
* philosophy
* Freudian and Jungian psychology
* radical political movements
* imaginative literature.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134541485
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/04/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 677 KB

About the Author

B. J. Gibbons is Lecturer in Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. His main research interests are occult spiritualities and seventeenth-century English Radicalism. He is the author of Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought: Behmenism and its Development in England (1998).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Nature in occult thought; Chapter 3 Science, magic and the occult; Chapter 4 The body in occult thought; Chapter 5 The body in health and death; Chapter 6 The mind in occult thought; Chapter 7 Occultism and analytical psychology; Chapter 8 Society, religion and history in occult thought; Chapter 9 The occult and Western culture; Notes Index;
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