In addition to critical biography and autobiography, we encourage studies of daily lives in communities. The series will be multidisciplinary and multicultural. We seek studies of religious lives that have been previously overlooked and of lives that are not at first glance formally 'religious' but are informed by religious concerns. Formed by or around leading German cultural figures such as Stephan George, Count Hermann Keyserling, and Richard Wagner, these groups rejected egalitarian Christian values for elitist pagan ones. The groups modeled themselves on Greek mystery cults.
Members strove to realize their own divinity.
German culture was deemed the repostiory of paganism. Noll claims that the Jungian aim of discovering one's divine self, which everyone harbors but which only a few are sentitive and resolute enought to seek out, matches that of the elitist groups. Noll claims still further that Jung established a secret cult whose members worshiped him. No one would deny that Jung was keenly interested in cultural trends. But he was far more interested in movements that Noll barely mentions notably, Gnosticism and alchemy.