Polemical encounters : esoteric discourse and its others / edited by Olav Hammer and Kocku von Stuckrad.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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CONTENTS; Introduction: Western Esotericism and Polemics --- Olav Hammer and Kocku von Stuckrad; PART ONE KABBALAH IN POLEMICAL PERSPECTIVE; Christian Kabbalah and Anti-Jewish Polemics: Pico in Context --- Kocku von Stuckrad; Christian Orthodoxy and Jewish Kabbalah: Russian Mystics in the Search for Perennial Wisdom --- Konstantin Burmistrov; Adorno's Kabbalah: Some Preliminary Observations --- Steven M. Wasserstrom; "Authorized Guardians": The Polemics of Academic Scholars of Jewish Mysticism against Kabbalah Practitioners --- Boaz Huss.

PART TWO HERESIES, IDENTITIES, AND INTERCONFESSIONAL POLEMICSThe Trouble With Images: Anti-Image Polemics and Western Esotericism --- Wouter J. Hanegraaff; Between Heresy and Orthodoxy: Alchemy and Piety in Late Sixteenth-Century Germany --- Hanns-Peter Neumann; Between Theosophy and Orthodox Christianity: Johann Salomo Semler's Hermetic Religion --- Peter Hanns Reill; The Masonic Necromancer: Shifting Identities in the Lives of Johann Georg Schrepfer --- Ren.

In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie esoteric identities and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history.

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