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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