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Gnosticism and the History of Religions (Paperback, Nippod): David G. Robertson

Gnosticism and the History of Religions (Paperback, Nippod)

David G. Robertson

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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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
Release date: March 2023
Authors: David G. Robertson
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Nippod
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-25859-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Syncretist & eclectic religions & belief systems > Gnosticism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Syncretist & eclectic religions & belief systems > Gnosticism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
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LSN: 1-350-25859-8
Barcode: 9781350258594

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