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Gnosticism and the History of Religions (Hardcover)
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Gnosticism and the History of Religions (Hardcover)
Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
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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.
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