Asia, modernity, and the pursuit of the sacred [electronic resource] : gnostics, scholars, mystics, and reformers / Joel S. Kahn.
2016
BL1033 .K34 2016eb
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Title
Asia, modernity, and the pursuit of the sacred [electronic resource] : gnostics, scholars, mystics, and reformers / Joel S. Kahn.
Author
Kahn, Joel S., author.
ISBN
9781137567956 (electronic book)
1137567953 (electronic book)
9781349553891
9781137567949
1137567945
1137567953 (electronic book)
9781349553891
9781137567949
1137567945
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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10.1007/978-1-137-56795-6 doi
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BL1033 .K34 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
200.9/04
Summary
Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred examines a large number of Europeans who, disillusioned with western culture and religion after World War I, and anticipating the spiritual seekers of the counterculture, turned to the religious traditions of Asia for inspiration.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Asia, modernity, and the pursuit of the sacred.
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Table of Contents
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Anthropology and the Limits of Secular Reason; 2 Gnosticism and the Pursuit of the Sacred; 3 Traditionalism: A Dialectic of Authenticity; 4 Gnostics, Religion, and the (Mis)Recognition of Modernity; 5 Modern Mystics: Toward a Gnostic Science; 6 The Inner Journey of the Gnostic Self: Ethics and Politics; 7 Other Worlds or Ours? Sacred/Secular/Gnostic/Modern; 8 What if Culture Did Not Matter? Asian Studies and the New Universalism(s); Notes; References; Index.