Search for dissertations about: "Western esotericism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Western esotericism.
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1. Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields
Abstract : The greater part of Western Esoterism holds beliefs in five important matrices. This branch of esoterism, rooted in a Hermetic milieu, is labelled dialectical esoterism because of the dialectical relationship between the ‘lower’ (man, earth) and the ‘higher’ (heaven, the divine, God). READ MORE
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2. The Eloquent Blood : The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism
Abstract : The study analyses the changing construction of femininities and feminine sexuality in interpretations of the goddess Babalon, a central deity in Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) esoteric religion Thelema. Femininity has occupied a problematic position in feminist theory, frequently associated with lack, artifice, and restriction. READ MORE
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3. From Darkness to Light. Western Esoteric Rituals of Initiation
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4. Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age
Abstract : The study addresses the question of how religious creativity in the West manages to adapt to the forces of modernity. The empirical data are drawn from a set of historically and thematically related movements, from late nineteenth century theosophy to the contemporary New Age.The dissertation is divided into three main sections. READ MORE
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5. Occultism and Traditionalism: Arturo Reghini and the Antimodern Reaction in Early Twentieth-Century Italy
Abstract : The thesis will aim to analyse the interaction between occultism and different facets of modernity in early twentieth-century Italy, focusing on the figure of Arturo Reghini (1878-1946) as a case study. In his ´The Modernity of Occultism: Reflections on Some Crucial Aspects’, Marco Pasi convincingly evaluates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (est. READ MORE