{"product_id":"gnostic-countercultures-terror-and-intrigue-9789004436985","title":"Gnostic Countercultures: Terror and Intrigue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Gnostic Countercultures, fourteen scholars investigate countercultural aspects associated with the gnostic which is broadly conceived with reference to the claim to have special knowledge of the divine, which either transcends or transgresses conventional religious knowledge.  The papers explore the concept of the gnostic in Western culture from the ancient world to the modern New Age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents    Introduction    Part 1: Antiquity  The Countercultural Gnostic: Turning the World Upside Down  and Inside Out   April D. DeConick    “I Turned away from the Temple”: Sethian Counterculture in the  Apocryphon of John   Grant Adamson    Transgressing Boundaries: Plotinus and the Gnostics    John D. Turner    Forbidden Knowledge: Cognitive Transgression and “Ascent Above Intellect” in the Debate Between Plotinus and the Gnostics   Zeke Mazur    The Apocalypse of Paul (NHC V,2): Cosmology, Anthropology,  and Ethics   Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta    Gnosis Undomesticated: Archon-Seduction, Demon Sex, and Sodomites  in the Paraphrase of Shem (NHC VII,1)   Dylan M. Burns     Gnostic Self-Deification: The Case of Simon of Samaria   M. David Litwa    Demon est Deus Inversus: Honoring the Daemonic in Iamblichean Theurgy   Gregory Shaw    The Coming of the Star-Child: The Reception of the Revelation of the Magi in New Age Religious Thought and Ufology   Brent Landau    Part 2: Modernity  The Great God Pan   Sarah Iles Johnston    Alan Moore’s Promethea: Countercultural Gnosis and the End of the World   Wouter J. Hanegraaff    Children of the Light: Gnostic Fiction and Gnostic Practice in Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice Trilogy   Victoria Nelson    Symbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of Gnosticism   Matthew J. Dillon    Gnostic and Countercultural Elements in Zora Neale Hurston’s  “Hoodoo in America”   Margarita Simon Guillory    Index 317","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210806714711,"sku":"9789004436985","price":62.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gnostic-countercultures-terror-and-intrigue-9789004436985","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}