Esotericism
- Autor(en)
- Karl Baier
- Abstrakt
The historical semantics of “esoteric/esotericism” and the related “occult/occultism” are treated. Then two basic scientific approaches are introduced: the comparative and the historical. The religious formation of secrecy and the claim to higher knowledge, followed by as well as conceptualizations of esotericism as the core of all religions, are discussed. The last major section deals with the very influential historiographical “Faivre–Hanegraaff paradigm,” which understands esotericism as a term for certain rejected currents of thought.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Religionswissenschaft
- Seiten
- 229-240
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119092797.ch14
- Publikationsdatum
- 2021
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 603909 Religionswissenschaft
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/esotericism(9564d206-3b9a-4355-9ebf-068f7d148908).html