Esoteric Transfers and Constructions

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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Palgrave Macmillan


Paru le : 2021-02-27



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Similarities between esoteric and mystical currents in different religious traditions have long interested scholars. This book takes a new look at the relationship between such currents. It advances a discussion that started with the search for religious essences, archetypes, and universals, from William James to Eranos. The universal categories that resulted from that search were later criticized as essentialist constructions, and questioned by deconstructionists. An alternative explanation was advanced by diffusionists: that there were transfers between different traditions. This book presents empirical case studies of such constructions, and of transfers between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the premodern period, and Judaism, Christianity, and Western esotericism in the modern period. It shows that there were indeed transfers that can be clearly documented, and that there were also indeed constructions, often very imaginative. It also shows that there were many casesthat were neither transfers nor constructions, but a mixture of the two.

Pages
348 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2021-02-27
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783030617875
EAN PDF
9783030617882

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3
Nombre pages imprimables
34
Taille du fichier
5396 Ko
Prix
147,69 €
EAN EPUB
9783030617882

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Nombre pages copiables
3
Nombre pages imprimables
34
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2376 Ko
Prix
147,69 €

Mark Sedgwick is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Convenor of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE).

Francesco Piraino is a postdoctoral scholar at the Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC - CNRS) and the director of Centre of Comparative Studies on Spiritualities and Civilizations at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy.

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