Christopher Partridge (Editor)
Routledge
Publication date: 2014
Language: English
Physical Details: 780 pages
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. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture. Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Ancient Esoteric Traditions Chapter 3: The Occult Middle Ages Chapter 4: The Hermetic Revival in Italy Chapter 5: Alchemical Hermeticism Chapter 6: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Chapter 7: Paracelsus Chapter 8: John Dee Chapter 9: Jacob Böhme and Christian Theosophy Chapter 10: The Rosicrucian Manifestos And Early Rosicrucianism Chapter 11: Emanuel Swedenborg Chapter 12: Freemasonry Chapter 13: Illuminism Chapter 14: Martinism in Eighteenth-Century France Chapter 15: Animal Magnetism and Mesmerism Chapter 16: Spiritualism Chapter 17: New Thought Traditions Chapter 18: Eliphas Lévi Chapter 19: Paschal Beverly Randolph Chapter 20: William Wynn Westcott Chapter 21: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Chapter 22: Samuel Liddell Mathers Chapter 23: Theosophy Chapter 24: Frederic W. H. Myers Chapter 25: The Society for Psychical Research Chapter 26: Ordo Templi Orientis Chapter 27: Arthur Edward Waite Chapter 28: Charles Fort Chapter 29: Aleister Crowley Chapter 30: Austin Osman Spare Chapter 31: René Guénon and Traditionalism Chapter 32: Dion Fortune and the Society of the Inner Light Chapter 33: John Whiteside Parsons Chapter 34: Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition Chapter 35: Robert Anton Wilson Chapter 36: Nazism and the Occult Chapter 37: The Theosophical Current in the Twentieth Century Chapter 38: Contemporary Paganism and the Occult Chapter 39: New Age Chapter 40: Contemporary Ritual Magic Chapter 41: Contemporary Satanism Chapter 42: Chaos Magick Chapter 43: Vampirism, Lycanthropy, and Otherkin Chapter 44: Hakim Bey Chapter 45: The Occult and the Visual Arts Chapter 46: The Occult and Film Chapter 47: Kenneth Anger Chapter 48: Dennis Wheatley Chapter 49: The Occult and Modern Horror Fiction Chapter 50: The Occult and Science Fiction/Fantasy Chapter 51: H.P. Lovecraft Chapter 52: The Occult and Comics Chapter 53: The Occult and Popular Music Chapter 54: The Occult on the Internet Chapter 55: Kabbalah Chapter 56: Alchemy Chapter 57: Sex Magic Chapter 58: Tarot Chapter 59: Scrying Chapter 60: Astrology Chapter 61: Grimoires Chapter 62: Orientalism and the Occult Chapter 63: Occult War Chapter 64: The Counterculture and the Occult Chapter 65: Intermediary Beings Chapter 66: The Body in Occult Thought Chapter 67: Drugs and the Occult Chapter 68: Gender and the Occult Chapter 69: Crime, Moral Panic, and the Occult Chapter 70: Conspiracy Theories and the Occult Chapter 71: Science and the Occult Chapter 72: Sociology and the Occult Chapter 73: Psychology and the Occult Chapter 74: Opposition to the Occult Index
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