Initiating the Millennium

Robert Collis, Natalie Bayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• In Initiating the Millennium , Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer fill a substantial lacuna in the study of an initiatic society--known variously as the ... Lees meer

Mystifying Kabbalah

Boaz Huss

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• Most scholars of Judaism take the term "Jewish mysticism" for granted, and do not engage in a critical discussion of the essentialist perceptions that... Lees meer

Satanic Feminism

Per Faxneld

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent mise... Lees meer

The Eloquent Blood

Manon Hedenborg White

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• In the conventional dichotomy of chaste, pure Madonna and libidinous whore, the former has usually been viewed as the ideal form of femininity. Howeve... Lees meer

Imagining the East

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. P. Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott and others) is increasingly becoming recognized for its influential r... Lees meer

Occult Imperium

Christian Giudice

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• Christian Giudice's Occult Imperium explores Italian national forms of Occultism, chiefly analyzing Arturo Reghini (1878-1946), his copious writings, ... Lees meer

Subtle Body

Simon Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages, innumerable religious and intellectual movements have proposed answers to this question. Many ... Lees meer

What Is It Like to Be Dead?

Jens Schlieter

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• Studies of "near-death experiences" show that such experiences not only provide a new certainty of post-mortem survival, but often function as a call ... Lees meer

Children of Lucifer

Ruben Van Luijk

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with s... Lees meer

Spiritual Alchemy

Mike A Zuber

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• Most professional historians see the relationship between pre-modern and modern alchemy as one of discontinuity and contrast. Mike A. Zuber challenges... Lees meer

The Siblys of London

Susan Sommers

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountan... Lees meer

Recycled Lives

Julie Chajes

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief o... Lees meer

Gurdjieff

Joseph Azize

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• The Armenian-born mystic, philosopher, and spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) is an enigmatic figure, the subject of a great deal of inte... Lees meer

Among the Scientologists

Donald A Westbrook

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
• The Church of Scientology is one of the most recognizable American-born new religions, but perhaps the least understood. With academic and popular int... Lees meer