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New Age religion and Western culture esotericism in the mirror of secular thought / by Hanegraaff, Wouter J.

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Perversion and the art of persecution esotericism and fear in the political philosophy of Leo Strauss / by Walsh, Sean Noah, 1975-

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New Age religion and Western culture esotericism in the mirror of secular thought / by Hanegraaff, Wouter J.

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Perversion and the art of persecution esotericism and fear in the political philosophy of Leo Strauss / by Walsh, Sean Noah, 1975-

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Concealment and revelation esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications / by Halbertal, Moshe

Table of Contents: “…The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone" -- The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature -- The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot -- Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature -- Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer -- Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah -- Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed -- The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism -- From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah -- Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet -- Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah -- From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature -- "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism -- Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret -- The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century -- Esotericism, discontent and co-existence -- Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion.…”
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Concealment and revelation esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications / by Halbertal, Moshe

Table of Contents: “…The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone" -- The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature -- The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot -- Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature -- Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer -- Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah -- Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed -- The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism -- From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah -- Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet -- Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah -- From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature -- "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism -- Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret -- The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century -- Esotericism, discontent and co-existence -- Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion.…”
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Hidden intercourse eros and sexuality in the history of Western esotericism /

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Hidden intercourse eros and sexuality in the history of Western esotericism /

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Hermes in the academy ten years' study of western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam / by Hanegraaff, Wouter J.

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Hermes in the academy ten years' study of western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam / by Hanegraaff, Wouter J.

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Between occultism and Nazism : anthroposophy and the politics of race in the fascist era / by Staudenmaier, Peter, 1965-

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Between occultism and Nazism : anthroposophy and the politics of race in the fascist era / by Staudenmaier, Peter, 1965-

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Rūmī and the hermeneutics of eroticism by Tourage, Mahdi

Table of Contents: “…The Bawdy tales of the Mathnawī in the context of Persian mystical poetry -- The nexus between esotericism and eroticism -- Phallocentric esotericism in the tale of the slave girl who satisfied her sexual urges with her mistress's donkey -- The phallus and the subject -- The hermeneutics of eroticism -- Visions of esoteric secrets in two miniature paintings of the Mathnawī's Bawdy tales.…”
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Rūmī and the hermeneutics of eroticism by Tourage, Mahdi

Table of Contents: “…The Bawdy tales of the Mathnawī in the context of Persian mystical poetry -- The nexus between esotericism and eroticism -- Phallocentric esotericism in the tale of the slave girl who satisfied her sexual urges with her mistress's donkey -- The phallus and the subject -- The hermeneutics of eroticism -- Visions of esoteric secrets in two miniature paintings of the Mathnawī's Bawdy tales.…”
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Maimonides as biblical interpreter by Klein-Braslavy, Sara

Table of Contents: “…Maimonides' interpretation of Jacob's dream of the ladder -- Maimonides' strategy for interpreting "woman" in the Guide for the perplexed -- Maimonides and esotericism. King Solomon and metaphysical esotericism according to Maimonides -- Maimonides' exoteric and esoteric biblical interpretations in the Guide for the perplexed -- Appendix: Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's interpretation of the story of the creation of man and the story of the Garden of Eden.…”
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Maimonides as biblical interpreter by Klein-Braslavy, Sara

Table of Contents: “…Maimonides' interpretation of Jacob's dream of the ladder -- Maimonides' strategy for interpreting "woman" in the Guide for the perplexed -- Maimonides and esotericism. King Solomon and metaphysical esotericism according to Maimonides -- Maimonides' exoteric and esoteric biblical interpretations in the Guide for the perplexed -- Appendix: Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's interpretation of the story of the creation of man and the story of the Garden of Eden.…”
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Language, eros, being kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination / by Wolfson, Elliot R.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : timeswerve/hermeneutic reversibility -- Showing the saying : laying interpretative ground -- Differentiating (in)difference : heresy, gender, and Kabbalah study -- Phallomorphic exposure : concealing soteric esotericism -- Male androgyne : engendering e/masculation -- Flesh become word : textual embodiment and poetic incarnation -- Envisioning eros : poiesis and heeding silence -- Eunuchs who keep Sabbath: erotic asceticism/ascetic eroticism -- Coming-to-head, returning-to-womb: (e)soteric gnosis and overcoming gender dimorphism.…”
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Language, eros, being kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination / by Wolfson, Elliot R.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : timeswerve/hermeneutic reversibility -- Showing the saying : laying interpretative ground -- Differentiating (in)difference : heresy, gender, and Kabbalah study -- Phallomorphic exposure : concealing soteric esotericism -- Male androgyne : engendering e/masculation -- Flesh become word : textual embodiment and poetic incarnation -- Envisioning eros : poiesis and heeding silence -- Eunuchs who keep Sabbath: erotic asceticism/ascetic eroticism -- Coming-to-head, returning-to-womb: (e)soteric gnosis and overcoming gender dimorphism.…”
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New era, new religions religious transformation in contemporary Brazil / by Dawson, Andrew, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Colonial beginnings ; Emerging pluralization ; Further pluralization ; Established diversity -- Neo-esoteric religiosity. Contemporary neo-esotericism ; Temple of Good Will ; Valley of the Dawn ; Gnostic Church of Brazil -- Ayahuasca religions of Brazil. …”
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New era, new religions religious transformation in contemporary Brazil / by Dawson, Andrew, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Colonial beginnings ; Emerging pluralization ; Further pluralization ; Established diversity -- Neo-esoteric religiosity. Contemporary neo-esotericism ; Temple of Good Will ; Valley of the Dawn ; Gnostic Church of Brazil -- Ayahuasca religions of Brazil. …”
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