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Gnosticism and the History of Religions
Engelsk
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781350258594
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1350258598
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
23 mar 2023
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
232mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Serie:
Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
Oplagsdato:
23 mar 2023
Forfatter(e):

Gnosticism and the History of Religions

Engelsk
Paperback
Format:

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Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was ‘invented’, this work focuses on the following stage in which it was “essentialised” into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses.

This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century. It uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals – practitioners and scholars – at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world.

David G. Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation.




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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781350258594
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1350258598
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
23 mar 2023
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
232mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Serie:
Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
Oplagsdato:
23 mar 2023
Forfatter(e):
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