bokomslag Gnosticism and the History of Religions
Filosofi & religion

Gnosticism and the History of Religions

Prof David G Robertson

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  • 240 sidor
  • 2021
Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was invented, this work focuses on the following stage in which it was essentialised into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses. This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century. It uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals practitioners and scholars at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world. David G. Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation.
  • Författare: Prof David G Robertson
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781350137691
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-09-09
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Academic