A theoretical approach to modern American history and literature : an issue of reconfiguration and re-representation / by Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Seven Intersectionality, Inoperative Community, Trauma, Social Justice, and Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth -- Notes -- Chapter Eight Theosophy, Plural Subjectivity, and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood -- Notes -- Chapter Nine Exile, Cosmopolitanism, Modernity, and Younghill Kang's East Goes West -- Notes -- Chapter Ten Conclusion -- End Matter -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship : homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity / by Herrero-Brasas, Juan A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise -- The building of a reputation -- Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparitions -- The character of Whitman's religion -- The creed -- The mystic hypothesis -- The strong hypothesis -- The weak hypothesis -- The denial of the hypothesis -- A gospel of beauty -- The classical roots of aestheticism -- Whitman and the platonic tradition -- From phrenology to aesthetic morality -- Whitman's treatment of the ugly : the "kosmic" vision -- Whitman and Nietzsche -- Whitman and Oscar Wilde -- The love of comrades -- A messianic mission -- The nature of comradeship -- Eduard Bertz : comradeship as veiled homosexuality -- Mystical interpretations of comradeship -- Ethical aspects of comradeship -- Religious aspects of comradeship -- Social and political aspects of comradeship -- Whitman's comradeship and Symonds's concept of Greek love -- Whitman, the moral reformer -- Poetry and ethics : Whitman's moral concern -- The character of Whitman's new morality -- An analysis of Whitman's morality : Briggs's theory -- Whitman's attitude to war -- Robert K. …”
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The spiritual imagination of the Beats / by Calonne, David Stephen

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World receivers : Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and John Whitney, James Whitney, Harry Smith /

The esoteric origins of the American renaissance / by Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

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Edgar Cayce in context : the Readings, truth and fiction / by Johnson, K. Paul, 1953-

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Dutch Jewry in a cultural maelstrom, 1880-1940 /

Table of Contents: “…The new "mosaik" : Jews and European culture, 1750-1940 / David Sorkin -- The politics of Jewish historiography / Michael Brenner -- "The first shall be the last" : the rise and development of modern Jewish historiography in the Netherlands until 1940 / Rena Fuks-Mansfeld -- Epigones and identity : Jewish scholarship in the Netherlands, 1850-1940 / Irene Zwiep -- Judaism on display : the origins of Amsterdam's Jewish Historical Museum / Julie-Marthe Cohen -- De vrijdagavond as a mirror of Dutch Jewry in the Interbellum, 1924-1932 / Judith Frishman -- "Holland is a country which provokes serious reflection--" : images of Dutch Jewry in the German Jewish press / Thomas Kollatz -- Spinozism and Dutch Jewry between 1880 and 1940 / Henri Krop -- Spinoza's popularity in perspective : a Dutch-German comparison / David Wertheim -- Mozes Salomon Polak : Jewish "Lerner" and propagator of freemasonry, spiritualism, and theosophy / Marty Bax -- Jewish women, philanthropy, and modernization : the changing roles of Jewish women in modern Europe, 1850-1939 / Susan L. …”
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Western Sufism : origins and development, 833-1968 / by Sedgwick, Mark J.

Table of Contents: “…Neoplatonism and emanationism -- Plotinus, the key -- Emanation explained -- Neoplatonism spreads -- Arab neoplatonism to Ibn Arabi -- Arab neoplatonism -- The first sufis -- Sufi classics -- Jewish and Christian Neoplatonism to Meister Eckhart -- Jewish neoplatonism -- Jewish sufism -- Latin neoplatonism -- Dervishes, 1480-1899 -- Dervishes as angels, deviants, and mystics -- Dervishes, angels and demons -- The view from france -- Sufism as mystical theology -- Deism and pantheism -- The prisca theologia in the Renaissance -- Universalism: Guillaume Postel and the inquisition -- Deism demonstrated by Arab and Turk -- Pantheism and anti-exotericism -- Universalist sufism -- Sufism as esoteric pantheism -- Perennialism and universalism in India -- The Dabistan and after -- Dervishes as Epicurean and fanatical -- Dervishes in drama, painting and verse -- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám -- Fighting dervishes -- The establishment of sufism in the west, 1910-33 -- Transcendentalism, theosophy and sufism -- Transcendentalism and the Missouri platonists -- The theosophical society and Carl-Henrik Bjerregaard -- Ivan Aguéli, the western sufi -- Towards the one: Inayat Khan and the sufi movement -- Inayat Khan visits America -- The sufi message is spread -- The continuation of the sufi movement -- Tradition and consciousness -- René Guénon and the traditionalists -- Georges Gurdjieff and consciousness -- The early years of John G. …”
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Northern myths, modern identities : the nationalisation of northern mythologies since 1800 /

Table of Contents: “…Saunders -- Travelling Ideas and Artistic Expressions -- Heirs of Lönnrot: From Longfellow to Tolkien / Tom Shippey -- Kalevala in International Masks: A Japanese Aino and Kalevala dell'Arte / Kendra Willson -- The Quest of Gangleri: Theosophy and Old Norse Mythology in Iceland / Simon Halink -- Beyond the Nation? …”
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Transcultural encounters between Germany and India : kindred spirits in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Cho, Joanne Miyang, 1959-, Kurlander, Eric, 1973-, McGetchin, Douglas T.

Table of Contents: “…McGetchin -- Fostering aesthetic tolerance through literary translation : Georg Forster's Sakuntala Madhuvanti Karyekar -- India and Hegel's "scientific" method in the phenomenology of spirit / Nicholas Germana -- Claims and disclaimers : Schopenhauer and the cross-cultural comparative enterprise / Sai Bhatawadekar -- Rudolf Steiner and the theosophy of greed / Jared Poley -- The redemption of the scientist : Richard Garbe as a chronicler of India / Joydeep Bagchee and Vishwa P. …”

Dutch Jewry in a cultural maelstrom, 1880-1940 /

Table of Contents: “…The new "mosaik" : Jews and European culture, 1750-1940 / David Sorkin -- The politics of Jewish historiography / Michael Brenner -- "The first shall be the last" : the rise and development of modern Jewish historiography in the Netherlands until 1940 / Rena Fuks-Mansfeld -- Epigones and identity : Jewish scholarship in the Netherlands, 1850-1940 / Irene Zwiep -- Judaism on display : the origins of Amsterdam's Jewish Historical Museum / Julie-Marthe Cohen -- De vrijdagavond as a mirror of Dutch Jewry in the Interbellum, 1924-1932 / Judith Frishman -- "Holland is a country which provokes serious reflection--" : images of Dutch Jewry in the German Jewish press / Thomas Kollatz -- Spinozism and Dutch Jewry between 1880 and 1940 / Henri Krop -- Spinoza's popularity in perspective : a Dutch-German comparison / David Wertheim -- Mozes Salomon Polak : Jewish "Lerner" and propagator of freemasonry, spiritualism, and theosophy / Marty Bax -- Jewish women, philanthropy, and modernization : the changing roles of Jewish women in modern Europe, 1850-1939 / Susan L. …”
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Canadian women shaping diasporic religious identities /

Table of Contents: “…4 Unveiling Leah: Examining Women's Voices in Two Canadian Jewish Worship ServicesPart B: New Religions in Canada; 5 Charity Chicks: A Discourse-Analysis of Religious Self-Identification of Rural Canadian Mormon Women; 6 "The Whole World Opened Up": Women in Canadian Theosophy; 7 Belief, Identity, and Social Action in the Lives of Bahá'í Women; Part C: South Asian Religions in Southwest Ontario; 8 Being Hindu in Canada: Experiences of Women; 9 Women in Hinduism: Ritual Leadership in the Adhi Parasakthi Temple Society of Canada; Conclusion; Bibliography for Women and Religion from 1951 to 2013.…”
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Kabbalah and modernity : interpretations, transformations, adaptations /

Table of Contents: “…Cover13; -- Contents -- Introduction: Kabbalah and Modernity -- PART I KABBALA SCHOLARSHIP: A REAPPRAISAL -- Philology as Kabbalah -- Beyond the Burden of Idealism: For a New Appreciation of the Visual Lore in the Kabbalah -- The Future of the Kabbalah: On the Dislocation of Past Primacy, the Problem of Evil, and the Future of Illusions -- PART II ROMANTIC AND ESOTERIC READINGS OF KABBALAH -- Kabbalah and Secret Societies in Russia (Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries) -- The Beginnings of Occultist Kabbalah: Adolphe Franck and Eliphas L233;vi -- Paul Vulliaud (18758211;1950) and Jewish Kabbalah -- Oriental Kabbalah and the Parting of East and West in the Early Theosophical Society -- 8220;The Sufi Society from America8221;: Theosophy and Kabbalah in Poona in the Late Nineteenth Century -- PART III MODERN KABBALISTIC SCHOOLS -- The Imagined Decline of Kabbalah: The Kabbalistic Yeshiva Sha8216;ar ha-Shamayim and Kabbalah in Jerusalem in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- The Status of the (Non)Jewish Other in the Apocalyptic Messianism of Menahem Mendel Schneerson -- Marriage and Sexual Behavior in the Teachings of the Kabbalah Centre -- Madonna and the Shekhinah: The Playful Transgression of Gender Roles in Popular Culture -- Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff and the Neurological Landscape of the Sefirot -- PART IV KABBALAH AND POLITICS -- 8216;The Great Goal of the Political Will Is Leviathan8217;: Ernst J252;nger and the Cabala of Enmity -- Pragmatism and Piety: The American Spiritual and Philosophical Roots of Jewish Renewal -- Contemporary Jewish Mysticism and Palestinian Suicide Bombing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.…”
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A republic of mind and spirit : a cultural history of American metaphysical religion / by Albanese, Catherine L.

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F.C. Baur's synthesis of Bohme and Hegel : redefining Christian theology as a gnostic philosophy of religion / by Simuț, Corneliu C.

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Constructing tradition : means and myths of transmission in Western esotericism /

Table of Contents: “…The Coming of the Masters: The Evolutionary Reformulation of Spiritual Intermediaries in Modern TheosophyHelena Petrovna Blavatsky's Esoteric Tradition; Tradition in Zwei Gestalten? …”
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John Dee's occultism : magical exaltation through powerful signs / by Szőnyi, György Endre

Table of Contents: “…De incertitudine et vanitate omnium scientiarumPARACELSUS, ALCHEMY, THEOSOPHY -- ENOCH, SCIENCE, APOCALYPTIC PROPHECY -- Part 3. …”
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The vogue for Russia : modernism and the unseen in Britain, 1900-1930 / by Maclean, Caroline

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Sufi City : urban design and archetypes in Touba / by Ross, Eric, 1962-

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Nineteenth-century religion, literature and society.

Table of Contents: “…', Light: A Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research, 5, 18 July 1885, pp. 339-41. 3.2 Theosophy 21. H. P. Blavatsky, 'The Fundamental Teaching of Theosophy', in The Key to Theosophy: Being a Clear Exposition, in the Form of Question and Answer, of the Ethics, Science, and Philosophy For The Study of Which The Theosophical Society Has Been Founded (London: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1889), pp. 61-82. 22. …”
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