Hidden Intercourse : Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Leiden : : BRILL, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (566 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Introduction: Things We Do Not Talk About (Jeffrey J. Kripal and Wouter J. Hanegraaff); Sexuality and Sexual Symbolism in Hermetic and Gnostic Thought and Practice (Second-Fourth Centuries) (Roelof van den Broek); Conceiving Spirits: The Mystery of Valentinian Sex (April D. DeConick); Sexual Intercourse Between Humans and Demons in the Islamic Tradition (Pierre Lory); Murmuring Secrets: Eroticism and Esotericism in Medieval Kabbalah (Elliot R. Wolfson); Ta'anug: Erotic Delights from Kabbalah to Hasidism (Moshe Idel). - Complications of Eros: The Song of Songs in John of Morigny's Liber fl orum celestis Doctrine (Claire Fanger)Under the Mantle of Love: The Mystical Eroticisms of Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno (Wouter J. Hanegraaff); Revealing Analogies: The Descriptive and Deceptive Roles of Sexuality and Gender in Latin Alchemy (Lawrence M. Principe); Probing Women and Penetrating Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Allison P. Coudert); Sensuous Relation with Sophia in Christian Theosophy (Antoine Faivre); Deadly Dates: Bodies and Sex in Spiritualist Heavens (Cathy Gutierrez). - Sexual Mysticisms in Nineteenth Century America: John Humphrey Noyes, Thomas Lake Harris, and Alice Bunker Stockham (Arthur Versluis)Paschal Beverly Randolph and Sexual Magic (John Patrick Deveney); The Knight of Spermatophagy: Penetrating the Mysteries of Georges Le Clément de Saint-Marcq (Marco Pasi); The Yoga of Sex: Tantra, Orientalism, and Sex Magic in the Ordo Templi Orientis (Hugh Urban); The Theory and Practice of Sexual Magic, Exemplifi ed by Four Magical Groups in the Early Twentieth Century (Hans Thomas Hakl). - The Roar of Awakening: The Eros of Esalen and the Western Transmission of Tantra (Jeffrey J. Kripal)List of Contributors; Index of Persons; Index of Subjects. - Analyzes the eroticism of the esoteric. This work aims to distinguish fact from fiction - only to find that historical realities are sometimes even stranger than the fantasies. It reveals the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries.
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| Emner | Sex - Miscellanea - History - Western countries
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| ISBN | 9789004168732
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