Spirituality and the OccultSpirituality 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: From the Renaissance to the Modern Age B. J. Gibbons Limited preview - 2001 |
Spirituality and the Occult: From the Renaissance to the Modern Age B. J. Gibbons Limited preview - 2001 |