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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.

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ISBN 0–415–24448–X (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–24449–8 (pbk)

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ISBN 0-203-18013-5 (Glassbook Format)

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