Rev. translation of: Les gnoses dualistes d'Occident. Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-280) and index. Table of Contents: Dualism : a chronology -- Myths about Gnosticism : an introduction -- Gnostic myth 1 : fallen wisdom -- Gnostic myth 2 : the ignorant demiurge -- …
"Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it is 'essentialised' into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same ti…
Introduction -- 1. Against All Heresies: Gnosticism before Modern Scholarship -- 2. The Era of Gnosis Restored: Nineteenth-century Gnostics -- 3. The Alien God: Gnosticism as Existentialism -- 4. Elite Knowledge: Jung and the Eranos Circle -- 5. No Texts, No History: Nag Hammadi…
"Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it is 'essentialised' into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same ti…
"Gnosticism, as a category in religious studies - and public discourse - is inexorably entangled with the phenomenological "History of Religions" school. Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism w…
"The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not t…
Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority recounts how philosophers of the late third century C.E. organized the spirit world into hierarchies, positioning themselves as high priests in the process. By establishing themselves as experts on sacred matters, they fortified their au…