Part One: Discarded Knowledge and Its New Legitimacy in Secular Discourse
by Kocku von Stuckrad
The Scientification of Religion
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- 1 Religion and Science in Discursive Perspective
- Part One: Discarded Knowledge and Its New Legitimacy in Secular Discourse
- 2 From Polemical Disjunction to New Integration: The Science of the Stars
- The Differentiation of Branches of Knowledge
- Polemical Disjunctions and their Complexities in the Eighteenth Century
- The Perpetuation of ASTROLOGY in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Philosophy
- Re-Enchantment of the Cosmos around 1900
- The Marriage of Secular Psychology and Astrology: Carl Gustav Jung
- 3 Alchemical Quests in Modern Garb
- 4 Darwinism Turned into Religion: Monism
- 5 Merging Occultism, Philosophy, Science, and the Academic Study of Religion: The Theosophical Society
- 2 From Polemical Disjunction to New Integration: The Science of the Stars
- Part Two: Academics as Religious Pioneers
- 6 The Trouble with Europe: Academic Orientalism and New Mystical Religions
- 7 In Search of the Great Goddess: How Academic Theories Generated Paganism and Witchcraft
- 8 Normatizing Shamanism: Academic Teachers as Religious Experts
- Conclusion: The Scientification of Religion
- Bibliography
- Index
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