Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion

by Antoine Faivre

This volume is based upon papers read during the innovative section "Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion" organized at the 17th International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) in Mexico City, August 5-12, 1995. The section was created in order to fill a long-standing hiatus in the academic study of religions: whereas phenomena such as gnosticism and hermetism in antiquity, and even the occult...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042906308
• ISBN13: 9789042906303
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.4"