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Spirituality and the Occult
‘This is a truly excellent book. The scholarship is sound and the subject timely, and
the style is clear and approachable. The material is well-chosen, well-presented and
the argument is convincing.’
Juliette Wood
‘This study is extraordinarily learned . . . accurate in its account of the occult
tradition in Western civilisation, and it adduces substantial evidence to support its
claim that occultism is a significant presence in many aspects of the modern world.’
John Mebane,
University of Alabama
Spirituality and the Occult
is a clear and convincing argument for a reappraisal of
the marginal status of occult spiritualities in relation to Western intellectual and
cultural history. B. J. Gibbons shows the esoteric tradition to have contributed much
to the development of many and diverse branches of European culture from the
Renaissance onwards.
The continued presence of esoteric mystical movements in Western culture is
demonstrated, and their relevance to the history of medicine, science, philosophy,
Freudian and Jungian psychology, radical political movements and imaginative
literature is illustrated. Laying particular emphasis on the secularisation of occult
spiritualities in the Romantic movement and beyond, and stressing the social role
of occult faiths as counter-culture, B. J. Gibbons illuminates the influential role of
the occult in much of what is taken to be typically ‘modern’.
B. J. Gibbons
is Lecturer in Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John
Moores University. His main research interests are occult spiritualities and
seventeenth-century English Radicalism. He is the author of
Gender in Mystical
and Occult Thought: Behmenism and its Development in England
(1998).
Spirituality and the
Occult
F r o m t h e R e n a i s s a n c e
to the Modern Age
B. J. Gibbons
London and New York
First published 2001
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.
© 2001 B. J. Gibbons
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any
electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and
recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the
publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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ISBN 0–415–24448–X (hbk)
ISBN 0–415–24449–8 (pbk)
ISBN 0-203-13472-9 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-18013-5 (Glassbook Format)
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