Книги. Художественная литература. Учебники и пособия.

Loren Graham, Jean-Michel Kantor

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Mary Frolich

In the popular mind, the mystic is seen as the supreme solitary. This image, if accurate, would make the mystical quest marginal in an era when much theology has emphasized socially responsible praxis. Against the popular image, Mary Frohlich develops a theological model -- based on the writings of Bernard Lonergan and the "self-psychology" of Heinz Kohut -- that both respects mysticism's irreducible character and shows how it concretely transforms people and systems. She then applies this model to an interpretation of a classic expression of spiritual transformation, the Interior Castle of the sixteenth-century mystic Teresa of Avila.

Ivan Strenski

Religion. Power. Politics. Ideas and institutions that have been laden with a baggage of meanings picked up through the course of history – and which, unfairly or not, are often defined by these historic and social contexts. In this thought–provoking book, Ivan Strenski unpacks the central concepts and influences of religion, politics, and power, and provides a new theoretical framework to think about what they mean in today’s society. In addition to offering radical critiques of the religious and political perspectives of thinkers such as Talal Asad and Michel Foucault, Strenski moves beyond the theory in applying his intellectual framework to a variety of real–world issues, including insights into suicide bombers in the Middle East. Erudite and engaging, Why Politics Can?t be Freed From Religion provides a timely and highly original contribution to our understanding of these concepts. It tries to dislodge readers from conventional thinking about politics and religion,...

Edited by Joanna Cannon and Beth Williamson

Introduced by Joanna Cannon, this volume of essays by postgraduate students at the Courtauld Institute, University of London, explores some of the ways in which art was used to express, to celebrate, and to promote the political and religious aims and aspirations of those in power in the city-states of central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contributions focus on four centres: Siena, Arezzo, Pisa, and Orvieto, and range over a number of media: fresco, panel painting, sculpture, metalwork, and translucent enamel. Employing a variety of methods and approaches, these stimulating essays offer a fresh look at some of the key artistic projects of the period. The dates cited in the title, 1261 and 1352, refer to two well-known works, Coppo di Marcovaldo's Madonna del Bordone and the Guidoriccio fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, here newly assigned to this date. By concentrating on individual cases such as these, the essays provide rewardingly sustained...

John H. Hayes

2Rev Ed edition

New York, N., Pullman Memorial Universalist Church. Albion

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Peryt Shou

This is a first-ever English language translation of Peryt Shou's profoundly influential treatise, Das Mysterium der Zentralsonne (1912). A direct line can be drawn between Shou's observations in this volume about the mysterious Central Sun of Theosophy and the later writings of Nazi occultists who have actively promoted the increasingly popular Black Sun mythos. The hidden wellspring of post-war Nazi occultism is revealed here for the first time. An informative preface, numerous explanatory footnotes and a detailed appendix on the Central Sun concept in Theosophy round out the book and render its text accessible to modern readers.

Juli Peradejordi

Language: Spanish La Estrella Flamigera, un texto absolutamente insolito dentro de la extensa literatura masonica, ofrece a sus lectores precisas ensenanzas alquimicas transmitidas en forma de ritual masonico. Su autor, Theodore Henri, baron de Tschoudy (1727-1769), fue el creador del Rito de la Estrella Flamigera y se inspiro sobre todo en tres alquimistas notables: el Cosmopolita, Paracelso y Marco Antonio Crassellame. Este texto clasico, dedicado a la estrella de cinco puntas, simbolo del microcosmos, se nos presenta como un catecismo para que el Aprendiz mason conozca los rudimentos y los secretos del Gran Arte. A Masonic and Alchemical ritual of the eighteen century written by one of the most famous experts on esoterism. This "burning wisdom" book enlights Obelisco's Esoteric Library Collection.

Jonathan Z. Smith

In "Map Is Not Territory", Jonathan Z. Smith engages previous interpretations of religious texts from late antiquity, critically evaluates the notion of sacred space and time as it is represented in the works of Mircea Eliade, and tackles important problems of methodology.

Greg Graffin, Steve Olson

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