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Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred
Gnostics, Scholars, Mystics, and Reformers
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Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred
Gnostics, Scholars, Mystics, and Reformers
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Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred examines a large number of Europeans who, disillusioned with western culture and religion after World War I, and anticipating the spiritual seekers of the counterculture, turned to the religious traditions of Asia for inspiration.
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Yes, you can access Asia, Modernity, and the Pursuit of the Sacred by Joel S. Kahn in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & History of Religion. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Anthropology and the Limits of Secular Reason
- 2 Gnosticism and the Pursuit of the Sacred
- 3 Traditionalism: A Dialectic of Authenticity
- 4 Gnostics, Religion, and the (Mis)Recognition of Modernity
- 5 Modern Mystics: Toward a Gnostic Science
- 6 The Inner Journey of the Gnostic Self: Ethics and Politics
- 7 Other Worlds or Ours? Sacred/Secular/Gnostic/Modern
- 8 What if Culture Did Not Matter? Asian Studies and the New Universalism(s)
- Notes
- References
- Index