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Claiming knowledge:

strategies of epistemology from theosophy to the new age
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BRILL, 2004 - Religion - 550 pages
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 been buttressed by drawing on various structural characteristics of late modernity. The advance of science has resulted in attempts to claim scientific status for religious beliefs. Globalization has given rise to massive loans from other cultures, but also to various strategies to radically reinterpret foreign elements. Individualism has led to an increasing reliance on experience as a source of legitimacy. The analytical tools applied to understanding religious modernization shed light on changes that are fundamentally reshaping many religious traditions.This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details."
  

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
SOME THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES
27
THE APPEAL TO TRADITION
85
Tibet
130
The New Age Blend of Traditions
139
Christianity as a Significant Other
154
Pattern Recognition
160
The Timeline of Esoteric Historiography
166
Doityourself Channeling
427
Experiencing What We Already Know
434
Elements of the Self as Experience Cues
440
REINCARNATION
455
Reincarnation and Christianity
470
The Democratization of Experience
482
Reincarnation as Rational Belief
488
CODA
495

Esoteric Exegesis of Myth
176
Structurally Radical
198
SCIENTISM AS A LANGUAGE OF FAITH
201
NARRATIVES OF EXPERIENCE
331
Privileged Experience
415
List of Sources
509
References
519
Index of Names
535
Index of Subjects
543
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Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age
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Olav Hammer
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About the author (2004)

Olav Hammer is Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Southern Denmark. He is author of Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age (2001) and co-editor of Polemical Encounters: Esoteric Discourse and Its Others (with Kocku von Stuckrad, 2007), The Invention of Sacred Tradition (with James R. Lewis, 2007) and the Brill Handbook of the Theosophical Tradition (with Mikael Rothstein, 2012).

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TitleClaiming knowledge: strategies of epistemology from theosophy to the new age
Volume 90 of Numen Book Series, 90
Volume 90 of Studies in the history of religions, ISSN 0169-8834
AuthorOlav Hammer
Editionreprint
PublisherBRILL, 2004
ISBN900413638X, 9789004136380
Length550 pages
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Body, Mind & Spirit / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Religion / History
Religion / Philosophy
Religion / Theosophy
  
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