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Libra Esoterica

Spirituality and the occult : from the renaissance to the modern age

by Brian Gibbons

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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Spirituality 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.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Occultism and esotericism, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “occultism”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the title, “esoteric” in the description, “occult” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “occultism”· via OpenAlex
    • “occult”· in title
    • “esoteric”· in description
    • “occult”· in description
    • “occult”· in subject
    • “occult”· in edition title
  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Mysticism”· in subject

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2001-01-01Informa; Routledge eBooksEnglish—Unknown

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