Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
1 Religion and Science in Discursive Perspective
The Discursive Construction of Knowledge
Historical Analysis of Discourse
Discursive Study of Religion: Concepts and Definitions
Basic Concepts for Discourse Analysis
Consequences for a Discursive Study of Religion
Methodological Implications
Determining the Research Question
Selecting Data and Building a Corpus
Choosing the Most Suitable Method to Analyze the Data Sets
Beyond Binaries: An Outline of the Argument
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
The Responses of the Astrologers
Polemical Disjunctions and their Complexities in the Eighteenth Century
Astrological Semantics in the Secret Societies of the Eighteenth Century
The Perpetuation of ASTROLOGY in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Philosophy
Astrology in Goethe’s Time
Aestheticization and Psychologization of Astral Powers in the Romantic Period
Re-Enchantment of the Cosmos around 1900
The Marriage of Secular Psychology and Astrology: Carl Gustav Jung
The Dialogue between Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Gustav Jung and Its Impact
3 Alchemical Quests in Modern Garb
Alchemy as the ‘Occult Other’
VITALISM: A Ménage-a-Trois of Life, Spirit, and Matter
Rearrangements in the Twentieth Century
4 Darwinism Turned into Religion: Monism
Ernst Haeckel: From Darwinism to Pantheistic Monism
Wilhelm Ostwald: Entanglements Personified
Discursive Implications: Holistic Thinking between NEW AGE SCIENCE, Nature-Based Spirituality, and a New Philosophy of Nature
Fritjof Capra
Ilya Prigogine
Gregory Bateson
Rupert Sheldrake
David Bohm
5 Merging Occultism, Philosophy, Science, and the Academic Study of Religion: The Theosophical Society
Helena P. Blavatsky as a Discursive Hub
Unveiling the Hidden Knowledge of Isis
Secret Doctrines and Synthetic Discourse
Wars of Succession
The German Knot: Rudolf Steiner
Part Two: Academics as Religious Pioneers
6 The Trouble with Europe: Academic Orientalism and New Mystical Religions
Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, and Dynamics of Jewish Self-Orientalization
Martin Buber: In Search of the Eastern Urjudentum
Gershom Scholem: ‘Jewish Mysticism’ as an Antidote to ‘Europe’
Rudolf Otto and Gerardus van der Leeuw: Oriental Wisdom and the Ultimate Access to the Sacred
Rudolf Otto
Gerardus van der Leeuw
Gender, Eroticism, and the Unveiling of an Orientalized Salome
Discursive Materializations: Globalized Sufism and Kabbalah
Kabbalistic Entanglements in the Life Sciences
7 In Search of the Great Goddess: How Academic Theories Generated Paganism and Witchcraft
Matriarchy as an Historical Myth: Johann Jakob Bachofen
Archaeologists and Classicists Discover the Great Goddess
Charles G. Leland and Robert Graves: Popularizing the Idea of the Goddess
Charles Godfrey Leland
Robert Graves
Discursive Materializations in (the Study of) Paganism and Esotericism
8 Normatizing Shamanism: Academic Teachers as Religious Experts
Mircea Eliade: Scholar and Novelist of Shamanism
Shamanic and Academic Authorities: The Routinization of Charisma
Carlos Castaneda
Joan Halifax
Michael Harner
Authority Contested
Conclusion: The Scientification of Religion
Bibliography
Index
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