Routledge Library Editions: Occultism

Routledge Library Editions: Occultism
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000807509

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1978 and 1992, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the occult and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The collection examines occultism from a broad range of disciplines, from shamanism and the occult tarot, to the esoteric and spiritualism. It includes volumes across the disciplines of religion, covering new religious movements, spiritualism, ritual and magic practices. The three books that comprise this set include investigations into the evolution of occultism, as well as the history and practices of the occult as a religious movement. This collection brings back into print insightful and detailed books and will be a must-have resource for academics and students, not only of religion and anthropology, but also of history and psychology.

Routledge Library Editions - Occultism

Routledge Library Editions - Occultism
Author: Various
Publisher:
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2019-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367336028

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1978 and 1992, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the occult and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The collection examines occultism from a broad range of disciplines, from shamanism and the occult tarot, to the esoteric and spiritualism. The collection includes volumes across the disciplines of religion, covering new religious movements, spiritualism, ritual and magic practices. The 3 books that comprise this collection include rigorous examinations into the evolution of occultism, as well as the history and practices of the occult as a religious movement. This collection brings back into print a collection of insightful and detailed books and will be a must have resource for academics and students, not only of religion and anthropology, but of history, psychology and religion.

Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3312
Release: 2021-03-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136191712

Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy (7 volume set) offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions. Some texts examine alchemy itself while some offer insight into the motives for alchemical research and others outlay portraits of people such as Giordano Bruno and John Dee.

Routledge Library Editions: Spiritualism

Routledge Library Editions: Spiritualism
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 968
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000806944

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1974 and 1992, draw together research by leading academics in spiritualism, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The collection examines spirituality from a broad range of disciplines, from the spirituality in the Christian church, spirituality in Africa, and Afro-American religions, as well as examining the areas of channeling, mediumship and spirit possession. In this 3-volume set, there are two incredibly unique and insightful bibliographic source collections, examining both primary and secondary source listings across the subject of spiritualism and one volume providing field research into spirituality in the Christian church and in the occult. This collection is an incredibly useful tool for researchers examining the broad area of spiritualism and will be of interest to researchers, academics and students of anthropology, religion and sociology.

The Occult Sourcebook

The Occult Sourcebook
Author: Nevill Drury
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000691497

Originally published in 1978, The Occult Sourcebook has been compiled primarily for the many people who are for the first time becoming engrossed by the numerous and often confusing possibilities underlying the occult sciences. It consists of a series of articles on key areas, providing the reader with easy access to basic facts, together with a carefully planned guide to further reading. Critical comments on the recommended books allow the reader to select those which best suit their interests. The authors have also included a ‘Who’s Who of the occult’ to provide short biographies of some of the more amazing figures who have already travelled down the mystic path. The book offers a programmed system of exploration into the realms of the unknown. It will be invaluable to the increasing number of people who are concerned with the exploration of enlarging human consciousness.

Routledge Library Editions: Free Will and Determinism

Routledge Library Editions: Free Will and Determinism
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2308
Release: 2021-07-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351780344

This set reissues a number of classic titles on free will and determinism. They approach the topic from a range of differing viewpoints, and in so doing, provide an excellent overview and in-depth analysis of this fundamental philosophical problem.

The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot

The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot
Author: Danny L. Jorgensen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2019-09-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000691500

Originally published in 1992, The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot examines beliefs, practices, and activities described as mystical, psychical, magical, spiritual, metaphysical, theophysical, esoteric, occult, and/or pagan, among other possible labels, by their American disciplines. The book is comprised using a mixture of field work and interviews and provides a broad overview of the esoteric community and the social meanings of occultism. The book describes and analyses social meanings of ‘esoteric culture’ as it is experienced, defined, structured and enacted by societal members and examines the sociological significance of esoteric culture as a formulation of alternative sociocultural realities. It provides a sociological understanding of esoteric culture and the cultural milieu.

Routledge Library Editions: W. B. Yeats

Routledge Library Editions: W. B. Yeats
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1652
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131544819X

This set reissues 6 books, originally published between 1951 and 1990, on William Butler Yeats, a foremost figure of twentieth-century literature and one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival. The volumes examine Yeats’s work, his poetic development, and his social and private life, and will be of interest to students of literature.

Routledge Library Editions: T. S. Eliot

Routledge Library Editions: T. S. Eliot
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 2418
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317290356

This set reissues 10 books on T. S. Eliot originally published between 1952 and 1991. The volumes examine many of Eliot’s most respected works, including his Four Quartets and The Waste Land. As well as exploring Eliot’s work, this collection also provides a comprehensive analysis of the man behind the poetry, particularly in Frederick Tomlin’s T. S. Eliot: A Friendship. This set will be of particular interest to students of literature.

Routledge Library Editions: Racism and Fascism

Routledge Library Editions: Racism and Fascism
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 3956
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317364791

This set gathers together a collection of out-of-print titles, all classics in their field. Reissued for the first time in some years, they offer an insightful reference resource to a variety of topics. From Professor Colin Holmes’s groundbreaking studies of racism in British society, to Professor Kitchen’s analysis of the rise of fascism in pre-war Austria, these books shed much light on society’s recent dark past.