The Occult World

<P>This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism...

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Main Author: Partridge, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2014
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Series/Journal:Routledge Worlds
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505 8 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SOURCES; 1 Ancient Esoteric Traditions: Mystery, Revelation, Gnosis; 2 The Occult Middle Ages; PART II: THE RENAISSANCE; 3 The Hermetic Revival in Italy; 4 Alchemical Hermeticism; 5 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa; 6 Paracelsus; 7 John Dee; PART III: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 8 Jacob Böhme and Christian Theosophy; 9 The Rosicrucian Manifestos and Early Rosicrucianism; 10 Emanuel Swedenborg; 11 Freemasonry; 12 Illuminism; 13 Martinism in Eighteenth-century France 
505 8 0 |a 14 Animal Magnetism and MesmerismPART IV: NINETEENTH CENTURY; 15 Spiritualism; 16 New Thought Traditions; 17 Eliphas Lévi; 18 Paschal Beverly Randolph; 19 William Wynn Westcott; 20 The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; 21 Samuel Liddell Mathers; 22 Theosophy; 23 Frederic W. H. Myers; 24 The Society for Psychical Research; PART V: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD; 25 Ordo Templi Orientis; 26 Arthur Edward Waite; 27 Charles Fort; 28 Aleister Crowley: A Prophet for the Modern Age; 29 Austin Osman Spare; 30 René Guénon and Traditionalism 
505 8 0 |a 31 Dion Fortune and the Society of the Inner Light32 John Whiteside Parsons; 33 Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition; 34 Robert Anton Wilson; 35 Nazism and the Occult; 36 The Theosophical Current in the Twentieth Century; 37 Contemporary Paganism and the Occult; 38 New Age; 39 Contemporary Ritual Magic; 40 Contemporary Satanism; 41 Chaos Magick; 42 Vampirism, Lycanthropy, and Otherkin; 43 Hakim Bey; PART VI: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE ARTS; 44 The Occult and the Visual Arts; 45 The Occult and Film; 46 Kenneth Anger; 47 Dennis Wheatley; 48 The Occult and Modern Horror Fiction 
505 8 0 |a 49 The Occult and Science Fiction/Fantasy50 H.P. Lovecraft; 51 The Occult and Comics; 52 The Occult and Popular Music; 53 The Occult on the Internet; PART VII: BELIEFS, PRACTICES, ISSUES, AND APPROACHES; 54 Kabbalah; 55 Alchemy; 56 Sex Magic; 57 Tarot; 58 Scrying; 59 Astrology; 60 Grimoires; 61 Orientalism and the Occult; 62 Occult War; 63 The Counterculture and the Occult; 64 Intermediary Beings; 65 The Body in Occult Thought; 66 Drugs and the Occult; 67 Gender and the Occult; 68 Crime, Moral Panic, and the Occult; 69 Conspiracy Theories and the Occult; 70 Science and the Occult 
505 8 0 |a 71 Sociology and the Occult72 Psychology and the Occult: Dialectics of Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment in the Modern Self; 73 Opposition to the Occult; Index 
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