ABSTRACT
The Gnostic World is an outstanding guide to Gnosticism, written by a distinguished international team of experts to explore Gnostic movements from the distant past until today. These themes are examined across sixty-seven chapters in a variety of contexts, from the ancient pre-Christian to the contemporary. The volume considers the intersection of Gnosticism with Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Indic practices and beliefs, and also with new religious movements, such as Theosophy, Scientology, Western Sufism, and the Nation of Islam.
This comprehensive handbook will be an invaluable resource for religious studies students, scholars, and researchers of Gnostic doctrine and history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Theoretical
part |2 pages
Ancient
chapter Twenty-Seven|11 pages
The discourse of truth in Chinese Tiantai Buddhism: “gnosis beyond gnosis”
part |302 pages
Medieval
chapter thirty-six|10 pages
Alchemy and gnosis from antiquity to early modern times: “as above so below”
part |2 pages
Modern: West, East, and Current Issues Europe and the West
chapter thirty-seven|17 pages
“Gnosis” as term and concept in the esoteric movements of the modern West: an attempt at periodization
chapter Thirty-eight|10 pages
Byzantine and modern Orthodox gnosis: from the eleventh to the twenty-first century
chapter Thirty-nine|9 pages
Pansophia, Christian Kabbalism, and the quest for universal knowledge in the early modern West
chapter Forty-four|12 pages
The “Lost Word” key and esoteric eschatology: Blavatsky’s Gnosis the core of Krishnamurti’s teaching
chapter Forty-Five|11 pages
The philosophy of Guido von List (1848–1919): connecting Gnosticism to Nazism
chapter Fifty-one|10 pages
Elevating the family in the Nation of Islam: discerning the “gnostic factor”
part |2 pages
The East (and Beyond)
part |2 pages
Current
