This volume opens up new research perspectives on the interplay between the formation of religious traditions and the criticism addressed to them in different contexts. The scholarly investigation of how religious traditions have been criticized, reconsidered, and modified helps…
The question of constructing tradition, concepts of origin, and memory as well as techniques and practices of knowledge transmission, are central for cultures in general. In esotericism, however, such questions and techniques play an outstanding role and are widely reflected upo…
[Rejecting the modern] destruction of knowledge and the darkening of consciousness [the author] has collected in this book 25 ... essays ... from key perennialist authors and other eminent thinkers. Divided into five sections, their responses treat the oppositions between Tradit…
This collection of essays by eminent traditionalists and contemporary thinkers throws into sharp relief many of the urgent problems of today.