Occult Roots of Religious Studies: On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia Around 1900

by Yves Mühlematter and Helmut Zander

The historiographers of religious studies have written the history of this discipline primarily as a rationalization of ideological, most prominently theological and phenomenological ideas: first through the establishment of comparative, philological and sociological methods and secondly through the demand for intentional neutrality. This interpretation caused important roots in occult-esoteric traditions to be repressed.
This process of "purification"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110660172
• ISBN13: 9783110660173
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"