A pioneering, richly interdisciplinary volume, this is the first
work in any language on a subject that has long attracted interest
in the West and is now of consuming interest in Russia itself. The
cultural ferment unleashed by the collapse of the Soviet Union
reawakened interest in the study of Russian religion and
spirituality. This book provides a comprehensive account of the
influence of occult beliefs and doctrines on intellectual and
cultural life in twentieth-century Russia.
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal's introduction delineates the
characteristics of occult cosmology which distinguish it from
mysticism and theology, and situates Russian occultism in
historical and pan-European contexts. Contributors explore the
varieties of occult thinking characteristic of prerevolutionary
Russia, including Kabbala, theosophy, anthroposophy, and the
fascination with Satanism. Other contributors document occultism in
the cultural life of the early Soviet period, examine the
surprising traces of the occult in the culture of the high Stalin
era, and describe the occult revival in contemporary Russia. The
volume includes bibliographical essays on Russian occult materials
available outside Russia.
Contributors: Mikhail Agursky, Hebrew University; Valentina
Brougher, Georgetown University; Maria Carlson, University of
Kansas; Robert Davis, New York Public Library; Mikhail Epstein,
Emory University; Kristi Groberg, North Dakota State University;
Irina Gutkin, UCLA; Michael Hagemeister, Ruhr University, Bochum;
Linda Ivanits, Pennsylvania State University; Edward Kasinec, New
York Public Library; Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, University of
Wisconsin; Hakan Lovgren, Independent Scholar; Bernice Glatzer
Rosenthal, Fordham University; William F. Ryan, Warburg Institute,
London; Holly Denio Stephens, University of Kansas; Anthony Vanchu,
University of Texas, Austin; Renata Von Maydell, Munich University;
George Young, Independent Scholar"
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