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Amy Hale is an anthropologist and folklorist specializing in contemporary esoteric history, art and culture. Co-edited collections include New Directions in Celtic Studies, and The Journal of the Academic Study of Magic 5. She has written widely on surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and is the author of the Colquhoun biography Genius of the Fern Loved Gully.
The first full length examination of the role and historical participation of women in Western Esotericism
Focuses primarily on modern figures from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries
Considers the theoretical implications of widening inquiry within the field of Western Esoteric studies
Table of Contents
Introduction Amy Hale
Part I: Race Place and Othering
Chapter One: Jessica A. Albrecht: Mrs. Rosa Frances Swiney: Imperial Feminism and Eugenics in Theosophical Evolutionist Thought
Chapter Two: Thea Wirsching: The Myth of Pamela Colman Smith's Blackness: Ethnic Impersonation in the Modern Esoteric Milieu
Chapter Three: Diana Brown: "Eastern Methods"/"Western Bodies": Dion Fortune's Shifting Positions on Yoga, 1929 -1940
Part II: Locating the Feminine
Chapter Four: Michele Olzi: The Devil Wears Pink: The Representation and Role of Woman in the Occultism of Maria de Naglowska
Chapter Five: Christa Shusko: The Power of Beauty: Eleanor Kirk's Feminine Esotericism
Chapter Six: Jay Johnston: Painterly Desire: Ithell Colquhoun's Other-than-Human Art
Part III: Rethinking Influence, Power and Authority
Chapter Seven: Vivianne Crowley: Doreen Valiente: Unmotherly Mother of Modern Witchcraft
Chapter Eight: Melvyn Draper: The Crucible of Modernity: Florence Farr & the Esoteric Woman
Chapter Nine: Julia Phillips: Madeline Montalban: Magus of the Morning Star
Chapter Ten: Deja Whitehouse: 'The Seeker' - Frieda Harris's Quest for Esoteric Fulfillment
Chapter Eleven: Susan Johnston Graf : George Yeats: Amanuensis to Inner Plane Spirits
Part IV: Embodiment
Chapter Twelve: Elizabeth Lowry: "Telling the World's Fortune": Eileen Garrett, Psychic Medium and Pioneer Parapsychologist.
Chapter Thirteen: Marla Segol: How to Make a Magician: Kabbalah, Psychotherapy and the Mechanics of Syncretism in Colette Aboulker-Muscat's Waking Dreamwork
Chapter Fourteen: Anne Parker Perkola: Dion Fortune and the Temples of the Numinous
Chapter Fifteen: Minji Lee: True Knowledge of God Obscured in Mind and Body: Hildegard of Bingen's Medical and Religious Understanding of Adam's Fall
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
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Genre: | Soziologie |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 420 |
Reihe: | Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities |
Inhalt: |
xv
401 S. 4 s/w Illustr. 401 p. 4 illus. |
ISBN-13: | 9783030768881 |
ISBN-10: | 3030768880 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC runder Rücken kaschiert |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Redaktion: | Hale, Amy |
Herausgeber: | Amy Hale |
Auflage: | 1st ed. 2021 |
Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities |
Maße: | 216 x 153 x 28 mm |
Von/Mit: | Amy Hale |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 22.01.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,653 kg |
Amy Hale is an anthropologist and folklorist specializing in contemporary esoteric history, art and culture. Co-edited collections include New Directions in Celtic Studies, and The Journal of the Academic Study of Magic 5. She has written widely on surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and is the author of the Colquhoun biography Genius of the Fern Loved Gully.
The first full length examination of the role and historical participation of women in Western Esotericism
Focuses primarily on modern figures from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries
Considers the theoretical implications of widening inquiry within the field of Western Esoteric studies
Table of Contents
Introduction Amy Hale
Part I: Race Place and Othering
Chapter One: Jessica A. Albrecht: Mrs. Rosa Frances Swiney: Imperial Feminism and Eugenics in Theosophical Evolutionist Thought
Chapter Two: Thea Wirsching: The Myth of Pamela Colman Smith's Blackness: Ethnic Impersonation in the Modern Esoteric Milieu
Chapter Three: Diana Brown: "Eastern Methods"/"Western Bodies": Dion Fortune's Shifting Positions on Yoga, 1929 -1940
Part II: Locating the Feminine
Chapter Four: Michele Olzi: The Devil Wears Pink: The Representation and Role of Woman in the Occultism of Maria de Naglowska
Chapter Five: Christa Shusko: The Power of Beauty: Eleanor Kirk's Feminine Esotericism
Chapter Six: Jay Johnston: Painterly Desire: Ithell Colquhoun's Other-than-Human Art
Part III: Rethinking Influence, Power and Authority
Chapter Seven: Vivianne Crowley: Doreen Valiente: Unmotherly Mother of Modern Witchcraft
Chapter Eight: Melvyn Draper: The Crucible of Modernity: Florence Farr & the Esoteric Woman
Chapter Nine: Julia Phillips: Madeline Montalban: Magus of the Morning Star
Chapter Ten: Deja Whitehouse: 'The Seeker' - Frieda Harris's Quest for Esoteric Fulfillment
Chapter Eleven: Susan Johnston Graf : George Yeats: Amanuensis to Inner Plane Spirits
Part IV: Embodiment
Chapter Twelve: Elizabeth Lowry: "Telling the World's Fortune": Eileen Garrett, Psychic Medium and Pioneer Parapsychologist.
Chapter Thirteen: Marla Segol: How to Make a Magician: Kabbalah, Psychotherapy and the Mechanics of Syncretism in Colette Aboulker-Muscat's Waking Dreamwork
Chapter Fourteen: Anne Parker Perkola: Dion Fortune and the Temples of the Numinous
Chapter Fifteen: Minji Lee: True Knowledge of God Obscured in Mind and Body: Hildegard of Bingen's Medical and Religious Understanding of Adam's Fall
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
---|---|
Genre: | Soziologie |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 420 |
Reihe: | Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities |
Inhalt: |
xv
401 S. 4 s/w Illustr. 401 p. 4 illus. |
ISBN-13: | 9783030768881 |
ISBN-10: | 3030768880 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC runder Rücken kaschiert |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Redaktion: | Hale, Amy |
Herausgeber: | Amy Hale |
Auflage: | 1st ed. 2021 |
Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities |
Maße: | 216 x 153 x 28 mm |
Von/Mit: | Amy Hale |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 22.01.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,653 kg |