The gnostic world / edited by Garry W. Trompf ; in collaboration with Gunner B. Mikkelsen and Jay Johnston ; assistant editors, Milad Milani (organization), Brikha H.S. Nasoraia (illustrations).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trompf, G. W., editor.

Mikkelsen, Gunner B., editor.

Johnston, Jay, editor.

Milani, Milad, editor.

BeDuhn, Jason, editor.

Nasoraia, Brikha (Brikha H. S.), illustrator.

Series:

Routledge worlds

[Gnostica monograph series]

Routledge worlds series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gnosticism.

Cults.

Religions.

Physical Description:

xix, 716 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"The Gnostic World is an outstanding guide to Gnosticism, designed as a collection of critical studies by experts to both widen and deepen study in Gnostic movements and strands of speculation as a discrete "World" of human socio-spiritual life from the distant past until today. An international team of contributors examines these manifestations in a variety of contexts, from the ancient pre-Christian to the contemporary. The volume considers the intersection of Gnosticism with Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Indic practices and beliefs, and also with such new religious movements as Theosophy, Scientology, Western Sufism, and the Nation of Islam. This illustrated handbook will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and researchers of Gnostic doctrine and history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Gnosticism, gnostics, and gnosis / Dylan M. Burns

"The gnostic world" : a history of scholarship (until 2000) / Garry W. Trompf

Gnostics and temporality : from myth to macrohistory / Garry W. Trompf

Ancient pre-Christian "gnosticisms" : the state of the questions / Carl B. Smith II

The Jewish background to "gnosticism" : a guide to the perplexed / Garry W. Trompf

Gnostic motifs in the New Testament / Pheme Perkins

On ancient "gnosticism" as a problematic category / Michael A. Williams

Gender issues and the study of ancient "gnosticism" / Majella Franzmann

The gnostics in early Christian heresiology / Mark Edwards

Genres of gnostic literature and the "classical gnostic" school of thought / John D. Turner

Sethian gnostic speculation / John D. Turner

Basilides and the Basilidians / Jean-Daniel Dubois

Valentinus and the Valentinians / Einar Thomassen

Is the Gospel of Thomas gnostic? / David W. Kim

The gospel of Judas and the Tchacos Codex / Garry W. Trompf and David W. Kim

The Mandaeans : writings, rituals, and art / Brikha Nasoraia

Hermetism and gnosticism / Jean-Pierre Mahé

Plotinus and the gnostics / Francis Lacroix and Jean-Marc Narbonne

Gnostic elements in ancient magical papyri / Malcolm Choat

Mani's life / Iain Gardner

The Manichaean path to salvation / Jason D. BeDuhn

Insight and means in Chinese Manichaean texts / Gunner B. Mikkelsen

From "Zurvanism" to Mazdak / Garry W. Trompf and Milad Milani

Christian gnosis : from Clement the Alexandrian to John Damascene / Doru Costache

Gnostic vicissitudes in late antiquity / Garry W. Trompf

Jñana : gnostic tendencies in early Hinduism and Buddhism / Gregory Bailey

The discourse of truth in Tiantai Buddhism : "gnosis beyond gnosis" / Haiyan Shen, with Brikha H.S. Nasoraia

Questions of gnostic influence on early Islam / John C. Reeves

An agenda for the study of early Shi'i cosmologies / Mushegh Asatryan

Classic sufism and gnosis / Milad Milani

Ismailism and gnosis / Farhad Daftary

Druze gnosis and the mystery of time / Adnan Kasamanie

Gnostic elements in Yezidism / Victoria Arakelova and Garnik Asatryan

Kabbalah and gnosticism / Michael Schneider

Bogomils and Cathars / Zdenko Zlatar

Alchemy and gnosis from antiquity to early modern times : "as above so below" / Peter Marshall

"Gnosis" as term and concept in the esoteric movements of the modern West : an attempt at periodization / Antoine Faivre

Byzantine and modern orthodox gnosis : from the eleventh to the twenty-first century / Doru Costache

Pansophia, Christian kabbalism, and the quest for universal knowledge in the early modern West / Garry W. Trompf

Freemasonry: gnostic images / Garry W. Trompf

British romanticism : gnostic longings / William Christie

William Blake, the ancient gnostics, and the birth of modern gnosticism / Peter Otto

Gnosis in the "French occult revival" and its offshoots / Tobias Churton

The "lost word" key and esoteric eschatology : Blavatsky's gnosis the core of Krishnamurti's teaching / Al Boag

The philosophy of Guido von List (1848-1919) : connecting gnosticism to nazism / Jeffrey D. Lavoie

Rudolf steiner : multiple bodies / Wayne Hudson

Gnostic sensibility in Gurdjieff's "work" / Constance A. Jones

Western sufism and gnosis / Mark Sedgwick

Gnosis : a perennialist perspective / Harry Oldmeadow

Carl Jung on gnosticism / Robert A. Segal

Elevating the family in the nation of Islam : discerning the "gnostic factor" / Dennis Walker

Inner tradition : recovering Christianity of the East / Lynn C. Bauman

Gnosis in Babism and gnostic signs in Babi talismans / Denis MacEoin

Ayatollah Khomeini's gnoseology and its impact on his political worldview / Emad Bazzi

Syncretistic Sufi gnosticism in south and southeast Asia / Clinton Bennett

Aurobindo and supermind / Peter Heehs

Of gnosis in tribal and "primal" cultures / Garry W. Trompf

Between the libertines and the renunciants : the neo-gnostic synthesis of Samael Aun Weor / Bernard Doherty

Scientology and gnosticism : L. Ron Hubbard's "The factors" (1953) / Donald A. Westbrook and James R. Lewis

Gnostic and esoteric filaments in popular culture / Adam Possamai

Feminist gnosis and modern gender issues / Jay Johnston

Modern psychedelic gnosis / Christopher Partridge

Exposing gnosticism / Douglas E. Cowan

Gnostic fiction / Carole Cusack

Film : evil demiurges in Hollywood films at the threshold of the 21st century : gnostic world-creators in the age of rapid technological development / Fryderyk Kwiatkowski

Gnosis and the arts : music / Joscelyn Godwin

Aesthetics and visual art / Jay Johnston.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138673939

1138673935

OCLC:

1055568270