Spirituality and the Occult
Subtitle: From the Renaissance to the Modern
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 13, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780415244480
First sentence: The term 'occult spiritualities' may be misleading to the modern reader.
Description: "Against the widely held view occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture, Spirituality and the Occult argues that the esoteric tradition has played a major role in European intellectual and cultural history. Among the disciplines in which B.J. Gibbons identifies the influence and continued presence of esoteric mystical movements are: medicine; science; philosophy; Freudian and Jungian psychology; radical political movements; and imaginative literature."

"Showing that the esoteric tradition is an unfairly neglected area in Western culture and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives, at least in part, from this tradition, Spirituality and the Occult casts a perspective on intellectual and cultural history in the West that is fresh, intriguing and persuasive."--Jacket.