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On the margin of the visible : sociology, the esoteric, and the occult
- Title
- On the margin of the visible : sociology, the esoteric, and the occult / edited by Edward A. Tiryakian.
- Publication
- New York : Wiley, [1974]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Tiryakian, Edward A.
- Description
- xv, 364 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary religious movements: a Wiley-Interscience series
- Uniform Title
- Contemporary religious movements
- Subject
- Note
- "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 351-357.
- Contents
- Esotericism and modern thought / P.D. Ouspensky -- Gnosticism and it survivals in Christianity / Maurice Bouisson -- Ersatz religion / Eric Voegelin -- Basic concepts of alchemy / Carl G. Jung -- On magic and alchemy / Paracelsus -- A modern alchemist / Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier -- Introduction to the tarot / Papus -- Occultism versus the occult arts / H.P. Blavatsky -- The sociology of secrecy and of secret societies / Georg Simmel -- Reception of a carbonaro / Anonymous -- Masonic ceremony / James Dewar -- The politics of ritual secrecy / Abner Cohen -- Selections from: New Atlantis / Francis Bacon -- The order of Rosicrucians / Max Heindel -- Experiences of initiation in the northern mysteries / Rudolf Steiner -- Invoking the Irish fairies / William Butler Yeats -- Theosophy and Nazism / Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier -- Medieval witchcraft and medieval heresy / Jeffrey B. Russell -- Crimes without criminals: witchcraft and its control in Renaissance Europe / Elliott P. Currie -- Kai T. Erikson / The witches of Salem Village -- Witchcraft and Satanism / Marcello Truzzi -- Urban witches / Edward J. Moody -- Magic, technology, and science / Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss -- Definition and dimensions of the occult: towards a sociological perspective / marcello Truzzi -- Toward the sociology of esoteric culture / Edward A. Tiryakian -- Astrology and French society: the dialectic of archaism and modernity / Claude Fischler -- Implications for the sociology of religion of occult behavior in the youth culture / Andrew M. Greeley -- Some notes on the sociological study of mysticism / Andrew M. Greeley and William C. McCready -- Introduction to a Hermeneutics of the occult: alchemy / Trent Eglin.
- ISBN
- 0471874353
- 9780471874355
- LCCN
- 73021981
- OCLC
- ocm00793546
- 793546
- SCSB-200527
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library