{"product_id":"gnostic-afterlives-in-american-religion-and-culture-9789004471931","title":"Gnostic Afterlives in American Religion and Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Gnostic Afterlives, fourteen scholars explore the intersection of Gnostic spirituality in American religion and culture.  Papers theorize Gnosis\/Gnostic in modernity, examine neo-Gnostic movements in America, and investigate the Gnostic in popular American films, literature, art, and other aspects of culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Gnostic Afterlives in American Religion and Culture    April D. DeConick      Part 1: Theorizing the Gnostic in Modernity   2 The Sociology of Gnostic Spirituality    April D. DeConick      3 Can We Recover Gnosis Today?    Gregory Shaw      4 What Is Gnosis: An Exploration    Arthur Versluis      Part 2: (Neo-)Gnostic Movements in America   5 The Knowing of Knowing     Neo-Gnosticism, from the O.T.O. to Scientology    Hugh B. Urban      6 Know Place: Heaven’s Gate and American Gnosticism    Cathy Gutierrez      7 American Gnosis: Jesus Mysticism in A Course in Miracles    Simon J. Joseph      8 The New Age and Gnosticism: Terms of Commonality    Mitch Horowitz      Part 3: The Gnostic in Popular American Culture   9 The Gnostic in Us All: Thinking from the Macrobiotics of  Michio Kushi    Catherine L. Albanese      10 The Space Jockey and the Future of Enjoyment: Alienated Sentience in the World of H. R. Giger    Eric Wargo      11 A Metaphysical Rebel? Camus’s Analysis of Gnosticism and Its Influence on Literature and Cinema    Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta      12 Eric Voegelin and Gnostic Hollywood    Fryderyk Kwiatkowski      13 The Afterlives of the Archons: Gnostic Literalism and Embodied Paranoia in 21st CE Conspiracy Theory    Matthew Dillon      14 The Electric Chrism Acid Test: The Problem of Psychedelic Gnosis     Erik Davis      15 Reflections of an American Gnostic    Jeffrey J. Kripal      Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210830143831,"sku":"9789004471931","price":52.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gnostic-afterlives-in-american-religion-and-culture-9789004471931","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}