New antiquities : transformations of ancient religion in the new age and beyond / edited by Dylan Michael Burns and Almut-Barbara Renger.

Other author Burns, Dylan M. editor.
Other author Renger, Almut-Barbara, editor.
Format Book
PublicationSheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2019.
Descriptionvi, 311 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Religions.
New Age movement.

Contents Introduction: what are new antiquities? / Dylan M. Burns, Almut-Barbara Renger -- "From Aphrodite to Kuan Yin"—"the Tao of Venus" and its modern genealogy: invoking ancient goddesses in cosm(et)ic acupuncture / Almut-Barbara Renger -- Ancient goddesses for modern times or new goddesses from ancient times? / Meret Fehlmann -- The artifice of Daidalos: modern Minoica as religious focus in contemporary paganism / Caroline Tully -- Transforming deities: modern pagan projects of revival and reinvention / Kathryn Rountree -- Archaeology, historicity, and homosexuality in the new cultus of Antinous: perceptions of the past in a contemporary pagan religion / Ethan Doyle White -- Reading history with the Essenes of Elmira / Anne Kreps -- The Jungian gnosticism of the ecclesia gnostica / Olav Hammer -- The impact of scholarship on contemporary "gnosticism(s)": a case study on the apostolic Johannite church and Jeremy Puma / Matthew J. Dillon -- Studying the "gnostic Bible": Samael Aun Weor and the Pistis Sophia / Franz Winter -- Binding images: the contemporary use and efficacy of late antique ritual sigils, spirit-beings, and design elements / Jay Johnston -- (Neo-)Bogomil legends: the gnosticizing Bogomils of the twentieth-century Balkans / Dylan M. Bums, Nemanja Radulović.
Summary Just as we speak of "dead" languages, we say that religions "die out." Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. 'New Antiquities' addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of the ancient Mediterranean as they attempt to legitimize developments in contemporary religious culture and associated activity. 0Drawing from the disciplines of religious studies, archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, this book explores a diversity of cultic and geographic milieus, ranging from Goddess Spirituality to Neo-Gnosticism, from rural Oregon to the former Yugoslavia. As a survey of the reception of ancient religious works, figures, and ideas in later twentieth-century and contemporary alternative religious practice, New Antiquities will interest classicists, Egyptologists, and historians of religion of many stripes, particularly those focused on modern Theosophy, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Religious Movements, Magick, and Occulture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: New antiquities. Bristol : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2018 9781781796344
LCCN 2017023210
ISBN9781781795040
ISBN1781795045 hardcover

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