{"product_id":"gnosticism-and-the-history-of-religions-paperback","title":"Gnosticism and the History of Religions - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid G. Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it was \"essentialised\" into a \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003e, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIt uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals - practitioners and scholars - at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid G. Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid G. Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. He is co-founder of the Religious Studies Project, and co-editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eImplicit Religion\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eUFOs, the New Age and Conspiracy Theories\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAfter World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and the \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion\u003c\/i\u003e (2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52752641851699,"sku":"9781350258594","price":80.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eFdpVzQvYmpqKy9GZHFlbkpqR0dXQT09.webp?v=1764331251","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/gnosticism-and-the-history-of-religions-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}