Western esotericism : based on papers read at the Symposium on Western Esotericism held at Åbo, Finland on 15-17 August 2007 / edited by Tore Ahlbäck ; editorial assistant Björn Dahla.

• Rudolf Steiner as a religious authority / Tore Ahlbäck -- Queen Christina's esoteric interests as a background to her Platonic Academies / Susanna Åkerman -- Research on esotericism in Scandinavia / Henrik Bogdan & Olav Hammer -- Post-secular esotericism? Some reflections on the transformation of esotericism / Kennet Granholm -- Freemasonry and its social position in Finland / Nils G. Holm -- Th Fourth Way in Finland / Vesa Iitti -- Kabbalah in Sweden / Thomas Karlsson -- The art of mystification: esotericism differentiated in the definition of Finnish symbolism / Nina Kokkinen -- Did the Pietists become esotericists when they read the works of Jacob Boehme? / Tomas Mansikka -- Esotericism made exoteric? Insider and outsider perspectives on the 2006 Mormon Temple Public Open House in Espoo, Finland / Kim B. Östman -- Defining Theosophy in the Twenty-First century / René Dybdal Pedersen -- A second Christian Rosencreuz? Jacob Böhme's disciple Balthasar Walther (1558-c. 1630) and the Kabbalah. With a bibliography of Walther's printed works / Leigh T. I. Penman -- Western esotericism and the history of European science and medicine in the early modern period / Jole Shackelford -- The esoteric milieu in Finland today / Jussi Sohlberg -- Esoteric discourse and the European history of religion: in search of a new interpretational framework / Kocku von Stuckrad -- The proliferation of post-modern religiosity in the late sixties: the case of 'The Process Church of the Final Judgement': from psychoanalysis as therapy to psychoanalysis as theology / Marco Toti -- The place of Emanuel Swedenborg in the spiritual saga of Scandinavia / Jane Williams-Hogan -- Gnosticism and esotericism: an example from Russian new religiosity / Vadim Zhdanov. 

Ämnesord

Esoterism  -- historia (sao)

Genre

Konferenser  (saogf)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Cn Moderna religionsbildningar

Cj Kyrkohistoria

Klassifikation

200.9034 (DDC)

270 (DDC)

Cn (kssb/8)

Cj (kssb/8)