Claiming Knowledge, Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age.

Claiming Knowledge, Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age.

This volume deals with the transformation of religious creativity in the late modern West. Its point of departure is a set of esoteric beliefs, from Theosophy to the New Age. It shows how these traditions have adapted to the cultural givens of each successive epoch. The claims of each movement have...

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Main Author: Olav Hammer

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004.

Series: Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Theosophy.
New Age movement.

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Call Number: BL51 .H35 2001

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Some Theoretical Preliminaries
  • Some Esoteric Positions: A Historical Sketch
  • The Appeal to Tradition
  • Scientism as a Language of Faith
  • Narratives of Experience
  • A Case Study: Reincarnation
  • Coda
  • List of Sources
  • References
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects
  • Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.