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In Western cultural history esoteric approaches to religion have often been in conflict with  -  and suffered at the hands of  -  more established forms of religious belief and practice. 'Western Esotericism' presents a very broad and engaging history of the people and ideas which have shaped occult history from antiquity to today.  Throughout the history of esotericism the dynamic of concealment and revelation has characterized the search for secret knowledge. Pursued both publically and privately, esotericism has come to influence more mainstream religious practice and culture and has significantly shaped our understanding of modernity. Today, esotericism continues to be practised by a range of both established and new religious movements. 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This book argues that European secularism, rather than pushing back religious truth claims, in fact has been religiously productive itself. The institutional establishment of new disciplines in the nineteenth century, such as religious studies, anthropology, psychology, classical studies, and the study of various religious traditions, led to a professionalization of knowledge about religion that in turn attributed new meanings to religion. This attribution of meaning resulted in the emergence of new religious identities and practices. In a dynamic that is closely linked to this discursive change, the natural sciences adopted religious and metaphysical claims and integrated them in their framework of meaning, resulting in a special form of scientific religiosity that has gained much influence in the twentieth century. Applying methods that come from historical discourse analysis, the book demonstrates that religious semantics have been reconfigured in the secular sciences. 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When Hermes Trismegistos reveals wisdom of an absolute quality, the unveiling of hidden knowledge in Jewish Kabbalah is transformed by Christians, Renaissance thinkers speak of an 'eternal philosophy,' or when in the 'New Age' people try to get in contact with a source of superior understanding--in every case the dynamic of concealment and revelation is at stake and the ways this hidden knowledge can be made accessible for human curiosity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52416959119633,"sku":"GOR008676443","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53514286596369,"sku":"GOR004886781","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781845530341.jpg?v=1758899608"},{"product_id":"after-exploitation-book-kocku-von-stuckrad-9781800509252","title":"After Exploitation","description":"A revolution is taking place in the sciences and the arts, but the general public is barely aware of it.  In his new book, Kocku von Stuckrad describes this revolution as a “relational turn” that no longer sees humans as masters of the world, but rather integrates them into a complex network of relationships with the nonhuman world.  Instead of perpetuating the separation of culture from nature, subject from object, and mind from matter—a separation that stems from the European tradition—von Stuckrad moves beyond understandings of umwelt (German for “the world around us”) and develops the outlines of a mitwelt ethics (literally, an ethics for the “world we’re with”) that considers human and nonhuman beings as equals in their knowledge and relations to the world. Only in this way can we break out of what the author calls the “exploitation regimes” of patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism that have brought the planet to the brink of collapse.  The book formulates concrete future perspectives for a flourishing and respectful human relationship with the earth, in which scientific, artistic, and political-legal innovations come together consistently and programmatically. In overcoming the colonial plundering of the planet, non-European and Indigenous traditions of world relations take on special significance, as do holistic European traditions, such as Romanticism, which reject human fantasies of domination and advocate a relational approach to the nonhuman world. The important role of art, literature, and spirituality in shaping a world ‘after exploitation’ is also conveyed in other elements of the book: von Stuckrad uses personal vignettes and poetic mitwelt words to create ways of communicating that go beyond factual information and support readers on their journey through the relational turn.  Originally published in German in 2024 (Nach der Ausbeutung\/Europa Verlag), this book has already proven itself essential reading for all those interested in explanations and solutions to climate change, human relationships with the more-than-human world, the role of art and literature in scientific and social transformation, and global and environmental justice in general. The English translation will surely find a place on course reading lists as well as on the shelves of activists and policy-makers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53402759397649,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53402760478993,"sku":"NGR9781800509252","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"locations-of-knowledge-in-medieval-and-early-modern-europe-book-kocku-von-stuckrad-9789004184220","title":"Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe","description":"One characteristic of European history of religion is a two-fold pluralism--a pluralism of religious identities on the one hand, and a pluralism of various societal systems that interact with religious systems on the other. 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