商品簡介
When religion meets religion, the result can be peaceful apologetics, controversy and debate, or war. In these 12 essays contributors describe responses to western esotericism and the polemics that result. Their papers on Kabbalah cover the place of Jewish mystic Pico in anti-Jewish polemics and Christian Kabbalah, Christian orthodoxy and Jewish Kabbalah in Russia, Adorno's Kabbalah, and the polemics of academic scholars of Jewish mysticism against those practicing Kabbalah, while those on issues of heresy analyze polemics against images in western esotericism, the relations of alchemy to piety and theosophy to orthodox Christianity, and shifting identities in suspect groups such as in the multiple identities of Salomo Semler. Issues within modern culture include the place of Guénon within traditionalist polemics, the case of dowsers and their skeptics' responses, responses of New Age practitioners to the Gospel of Thomas, and the external and internal polemics of modern witchcraft. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Olav Hammer, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of History of Religions at the Institute of Philsosophy, Education and Religion at the University of Southern Denmark. He has published extensively on New Age religion, new religious movements and on issues of theory in the study of religion.Kocku von Stuckrad, Ph.D. (2000), is Assistant Professor in the Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on methodological and historical issues in the study of religion.
