Hidden presence: race and/in the history, construct, and study of western esotericism
Except for a few studies that explore the intersections between esoteric ideas/practices and white supremacy, race has largely been ignored in the field of Western esotericism. This article seeks to partake in remedying this lacuna. To do so, it provides a deconstructive analysis of the way race has...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Routledge
[2020]
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| Dans: |
Religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 50, Numéro: 4, Pages: 479-503 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Monde occidental
/ Ésotérisme
/ Blancs
/ Hégémonie
/ Implication
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux ZC Politique en général |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Western / the West
B Modernity B racialization / Race B Colonialism B Spiritualism B Whiteness |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Résumé: | Except for a few studies that explore the intersections between esoteric ideas/practices and white supremacy, race has largely been ignored in the field of Western esotericism. This article seeks to partake in remedying this lacuna. To do so, it provides a deconstructive analysis of the way race has operated in the field. I argue that race, although consistently overlooked, has functioned as a ‘hidden presence’ that has shaped both the historical formation of the field and the construct of Western esotericism - so much so, in fact, that we may conceive it as a subtext in and for the dominant ‘grand narrative’ of Western esotericism. In conclusion, I investigate recent attempts to omit ‘Western’ as a definitive adjective in the study of esotericism, thereby proposing that, even as we move ‘beyond the West,’ we must also continue to investigate the entanglements of ‘Western’ and whiteness. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2019.1642262 |