Overview
- Argues that the concept of innovation is important in understanding the history of esotericism
- Reconsiders what innovation means in relation to ideas and intellectual production in general
- Features contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, as well as up-and-coming researchers
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities (PSNRAS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism. It illustrates how innovation is a mechanism of negotiation whereby an idea is either produced against, or adapted from, an older set of concepts in order to respond to a present context. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, it covers many different fields and themes including magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Tarot, apocalypticism and eschatology, Mesmerism, occultism, prophecy, and mysticism.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Georgiana D. Hedesan is Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge: The ‘Christian Philosophy’ of Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) (2016).
Tim Rudbøg is Associate Professor and Director of the Copenhagen Center for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His recent co-edited book Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society was published in 2020.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present
Editors: Georgiana D. Hedesan, Tim Rudbøg
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67906-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67905-7Published: 11 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67908-8Published: 12 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67906-4Published: 10 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2657
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2665
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 342
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Religion, Popular Science in Religious Studies