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This Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal body parts. That is a material form that is unaccompanied by directive textual inscription. The analysis considers this materiality to understand its context of use including ritual and metaphysical operations. Through discussion of selected case studies from British, Celtic, and Scandinavian cultures, it demonstrates the associative range of meaning that enabled the attribution of power/agency to the amuletic object Uniquely, it will consider this material culture from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing together insights from the disciplines of cultural studies, religious studies, 'folk' studies, archaeology and Scandinavian studies. It develops the concept of 'trans-aniconism' to encapsulates an amulet's temporal relations and develops the proposition of 'landscape amulets.'

Amulets. --- Magic. --- Ritual

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This volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion. The chapters present diverse material and detailed analysis on descriptive, methodological and theoretical concepts that together explore the potential of an aesthetic approach for investigating religion as a sensory and mediated practice. In dialogue with, yet different from, other major movements in the field (material culture, anthropology of the senses, for instance), it is the specific intent of this approach to create a framework for understanding the interplay between sensory, cognitive and socio-cultural aspects of world-construction. The volume demonstrates that aesthetics, as a theory of sensory knowledge, offers an elaborate repertoire of concepts that can help to understand religious traditions. These approaches take into account contemporary developments in scientific theories of perception, neuro-aesthetics and cultural studies, highlighting the socio-cultural and political context informing how humans perceive themselves and the world around them. Developing since the 1990s, the aesthetic approach has responded to debates in the study of religion, in particular striving to overcome biased categories that confined religion either to texts and abstract beliefs, or to an indisputable sui generis mode of experience. This volume documents what has been achieved to date, its significance for the study of religion and for interdisciplinary scholarship.

291.1 --- 291.1 Godsdienstfilosofie --- Godsdienstfilosofie --- Religion and civil society. --- Civil society and religion --- Civil society --- Aesthetics. --- Perception. --- Senses. --- Theory of Religion.

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21*015 --- 2:001 --- 2:001 Theologie als wetenschap. Studie en methode van de theologie --- Theologie als wetenschap. Studie en methode van de theologie --- 21*015 Theologie en taal --- Theologie en taal

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"The Gnostic World is an outstanding guide to Gnosticism, designed as a collection of critical studies by experts to both widen and deepen study in Gnostic movements and strands of speculation as a discrete "World" of human socio-spiritual life from the distant past until today. An international team of contributors examines these manifestations 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 such new religious movements as Theosophy, Scientology, Western Sufism, and the Nation of Islam. This illustrated handbook will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and researchers of Gnostic doctrine and history"--

Gnosticism --- Cults --- Religions --- 273.1 --- 273.1 Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Sects --- Gnosticism. --- Cults. --- Religions. --- gnostics --- gnosis --- the gnostic world --- gnostics and temporality --- ancient pre-Christian gnosticisms --- Judaism --- gnostic motifs in the New Testament --- ancient gnosticism --- gender issues --- early Christian heresiology --- gnostic literature --- the 'classical gnostic' school of thought --- Sethian gnostic speculation --- Basilides --- Valentinus --- the Gospel of Thomas --- the Gospel of Judas --- the Tchacos Codex --- the Mandaeans --- Hermetism --- Plotinus --- ancient magical papyri --- Mani --- the Manichaean path to salvation --- Chinese Manichaean texts --- Zurvanism --- Mazdak --- Christian gnosis --- Clement the Alexandrian --- John Damascene --- gnostic vicissitudes in Late Antiquity --- Jnana --- early Hinduism and Buddhism --- Chinese Tiantai Buddhism --- early Islam --- early Shi'i cosmologies --- classic Sufism --- Ismailism --- Druze gnosis and the mystery of tiime --- Yezidism --- Kabbalah --- Bogomils and Cathars --- alchemy --- Europe and the West --- esoteric movements of the modern West --- Byzantine and modern Orthodox gnosis --- Pansophia --- Chritian Kabbalism --- the quest for universal knowledge in the early modrn West --- Freemasonry --- British Romanticism --- William Blake --- the French Occult Revival --- esoteric eschatology --- Blavatsky --- Krishnamurti's teaching --- Guido von List --- Nazism --- Rudolf Steiner --- Gurdjieff --- Western Sufism and gnosis --- Carl Jung --- the Nation of Islam --- the Christianity of the East --- Babism --- Babi talismans --- Ayatollah Khomeini's gnoseology --- syncretistic Sufi gnosticism in South and South East Asia --- Aurobindo --- tribal and 'primal' cultures --- the neo-gnostic synthesis of Samael Aun Weor --- Scientology --- L. Ron Hubbard --- gnostic and esoteric filaments in popular culture --- feminist gnosis --- modern psychdelic gnosis --- gnostic fition --- cinema --- Hollywood films --- music and gnosis --- aesthetics and visual art --- Druze gnosis and the mystery of time --- Christian Kabbalism --- the quest for universal knowledge in the early modern West --- modern psychedelic gnosis --- gnostic fiction