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Libra Esoterica

The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot

by Danny L. Jorgensen

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

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Originally published in 1992, The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot examines beliefs, practices, and activities described as mystical, psychical, magical, spiritual, metaphysical, theophysical, esoteric, occult, and/or pagan, among other possible labels, by their American disciplines. The book is comprised using a mixture of field work and interviews and provides a broad overview of the esoteric community and the social meanings of occultism. The book describes and analyses social meanings of ‘esoteric culture’ as it is experienced, defined, structured and enacted by societal members and examines the sociological significance of esoteric culture as a formulation of alternative sociocultural realities. It provides a sociological understanding of esoteric culture and the cultural milieu.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “esotericism”. Retained metadata contains “esoteric” in the title, “occult” in the title, “esoteric” in the description, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “esotericism”· via OpenAlex
    • “esoteric”· in title
    • “occult”· in title
    • “esoteric”· in description
    • “occult”· in description
    • “Occultism”· in description
  • Divination and oracles

    Retained metadata contains “Tarot” in the title, “Tarot” in the description, and “Tarot” in the edition title.

    • “Tarot”· in title
    • “Tarot”· in description
    • “Tarot”· in edition title

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OpenAlex scholarly book record

2019-09-09—English—Unknown

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