Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age

by Olav Hammer

Book Overview

This volume deals with the transformation of religious creativity in the late modern West. Its point of departure is a set of esoteric beliefs, from Theosophy to the New Age. It shows how these traditions have adapted to the cultural givens of each successive epoch.
The claims of each movement have been buttressed by drawing on various structural characteristics of late modernity. The advance of science has resulted in attempts to claim scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900413638X
• ISBN13: 9789004136380
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.4" x 6.4"