von Stuckrad The Scientification of Religion

An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800–2000
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-61451-349-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 239 Seiten

Autoren/Hrsg.

von Stuckrad, Kocku

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;1 Religion and Science in Discursive Perspective;15
1.1;The Discursive Construction of Knowledge;17
1.1.1;Historical Analysis of Discourse;19
1.2;Discursive Study of Religion: Concepts and Definitions;24
1.2.1;Basic Concepts for Discourse Analysis;25
1.2.2;Consequences for a Discursive Study of Religion;27
1.3;Methodological Implications;29
1.3.1;Determining the Research Question;29
1.3.2;Selecting Data and Building a Corpus;30
1.3.3;Choosing the Most Suitable Method to Analyze the Data Sets;32
1.4;Beyond Binaries: An Outline of the Argument;33
2;Part One: Discarded Knowledge and Its New Legitimacy in Secular Discourse;37
2.1;2 From Polemical Disjunction to New Integration: The Science of the Stars;39
2.1.1;The Differentiation of Branches of Knowledge;39
2.1.1.1;The Responses of the Astrologers;41
2.1.2;Polemical Disjunctions and their Complexities in the Eighteenth Century;47
2.1.2.1;Astrological Semantics in the Secret Societies of the Eighteenth Century;50
2.1.3;The Perpetuation of astrology in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Philosophy;52
2.1.3.1;Astrology in Goethe’s Time;52
2.1.3.2;Aestheticization and Psychologization of Astral Powers in the Romantic Period;57
2.1.4;Re-Enchantment of the Cosmos around 1900;61
2.1.5;The Marriage of Secular Psychology and Astrology: Carl Gustav Jung;63
2.1.5.1;The Dialogue between Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Gustav Jung and Its Impact;66
2.2;3 Alchemical Quests in Modern Garb;70
2.2.1;Alchemy as the ‘Occult Other’;72
2.2.2;vitalism: A Ménage-a-Trois of Life, Spirit, and Matter;78
2.2.3;Rearrangements in the Twentieth Century;84
2.3;4 Darwinism Turned into Religion: Monism;90
2.3.1;Ernst Haeckel: From Darwinism to Pantheistic Monism;91
2.3.2;Wilhelm Ostwald: Entanglements Personified;94
2.3.3;Discursive Implications: Holistic Thinking between new age science, Nature- Based Spirituality, and a New Philosophy of Nature;101
2.3.3.1;Fritjof Capra;102
2.3.3.2;Ilya Prigogine;103
2.3.3.3;Gregory Bateson;105
2.3.3.4;Rupert Sheldrake;106
2.3.3.5;David Bohm;106
2.4;5 Merging Occultism, Philosophy, Science, and the Academic Study of Religion: The Theosophical Society;108
2.4.1;Helena P. Blavatsky as a Discursive Hub;108
2.4.1.1;Unveiling the Hidden Knowledge of Isis;112
2.4.1.2;Secret Doctrines and Synthetic Discourse;117
2.4.1.3;Wars of Succession;121
2.4.2;The German Knot: Rudolf Steiner;124
3;Part Two: Academics as Religious Pioneers;127
3.1;6 The Trouble with Europe: Academic Orientalism and New Mystical Religions;129
3.1.1;Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, and Dynamics of Jewish Self-Orientalization;131
3.1.1.1;Martin Buber: In Search of the Eastern Urjudentum;132
3.1.1.2;Gershom Scholem: ‘Jewish Mysticism’ as an Antidote to ‘Europe’;136
3.1.2;Rudolf Otto and Gerardus van der Leeuw: Oriental Wisdom and the Ultimate Access to the Sacred;138
3.1.2.1;Rudolf Otto;139
3.1.2.2;Gerardus van der Leeuw;140
3.1.2.3;Gender, Eroticism, and the Unveiling of an Orientalized Salome;143
3.1.2.4;Discursive Materializations: Globalized Sufism and Kabbalah;146
3.1.2.5;Kabbalistic Entanglements in the Life Sciences;148
3.2;7 In Search of the Great Goddess: How Academic Theories Generated Paganism and Witchcraft;153
3.2.1;Matriarchy as an Historical Myth: Johann Jakob Bachofen;154
3.2.2;Archaeologists and Classicists Discover the Great Goddess;158
3.2.3;Charles G. Leland and Robert Graves: Popularizing the Idea of the Goddess;160
3.2.3.1;Charles Godfrey Leland;160
3.2.3.2;Robert Graves;163
3.2.4;Discursive Materializations in (the Study of) Paganism and Esotericism;166
3.3;8 Normatizing Shamanism: Academic Teachers as Religious Experts;173
3.3.1;Mircea Eliade: Scholar and Novelist of Shamanism;176
3.3.2;Shamanic and Academic Authorities: The Routinization of Charisma;180
3.3.2.1;Carlos Castaneda;181
3.3.2.2;Joan Halifax;183
3.3.2.3;Michael Harner;184
3.3.3;Authority Contested;187
4;Conclusion: The Scientification of Religion;192
5;Bibliography;197
6;Index;225

Über Autor(innen)

Kocku von Stuckrad, Universität Groningen, Niederlande.

Kocku von Stuckrad, Universität Groningen, Niederlande.