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The Serpent's Gift - Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion (Hardcover)
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The Serpent's Gift - Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion (Hardcover)
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As recent domestic and geopolitical events have become increasingly
dominated by intolerant forms of religious thought and action, the
critical study of religion continues to find itself largely ignored
in the public square. Caught between those who assert that its
principal purpose is to reflect the perspectives of those who
believe and those who assert that its only proper place is to
expose these same worldviews as deceptive social and economic
mechanisms of power, the discipline has generally failed to find a
truly audible voice. Rejecting both of these conservative and
liberal modes of knowing as insufficient to the radical subject
that is religion, Jeffrey J. Kripal offers in this book another
possibility, that of the serpent's gift. Such a gift hisses a form
of "gnosis," that is, a deeply critical approach to religion that
is at the same time profoundly engaged with the altered states of
consciousness and energy that are naively literalized by the
proponents of faith and too quickly dismissed by the proponents of
pure reason. Kripal does not simply describe such a gnosis. He
performs and transmits it through four meditations on the
sexualities of Jesus, the mystical humanism of Ludwig Feuerbach,
the gnostic potentials of the comparative method, and the American
mythologies of the comic book. From the erotics of the gospels to
the mutant powers of the superhero, "The Serpent's Gift" promises
its readers both an intellectual exile from our present religious
and sexual ignorance and a transfigured hope in the spiritual
potentials of the human species.
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