From The INTERNATIONAL Association for the History of Religions - 2000 - XVIII Quinquennial Congress : Durban, 5-12 August 2000.
PROGRAMME WEBSITE: http://web.utk.edu/~rhackett/durban.html
The programme is utterly stunning and one wonders how anyone could absorb such a vast amount of information. Most exiting - is that Wouter J. Hanegraaff of the University of Amsterdam's recently formed Chair of Hermetic Studies - is convening a brilliant section Western Esotericism. Also present will be Mirando Shaw on the Goddess!
Here are the sections on:
WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND JEWISH MYSTICISM I
CONVENORS: Wouter J. Hanegraaff and J. A. M. Snoek
CHAIR: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Introductory Address
Kocku von Stuckrad, "The Beginning of a Mutual Enrichment: Jewish Mystical Discourse and Hermetic Esotericism in Late Antiquity"
Annine van der Meer, "The Harran of the Sabians in the First Millennium A.D.: Cradle of a Hermetic Tradition?"
WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND JEWISH MYSTICISM II
CONVENOR and CHAIR: Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jan A. M. SnoekChair: Antoine Faivre
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, "Lodovico Lazzarelli's Use of Jewish Mystical Sources"
Italo Ronca, "Astrological Medicine, Natural Magic, and Catholic Orthodoxy in Marsilio Ficino's Third Book on Life"
Jean-Pierre Brach, "Christian Kabbalah"
WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND JEWISH MYSTICISM IIICONVENOR and CHAIR: Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jan A. M. Snoek
Chair: Jane Williams-Hogan
Susanna Akerman,"Der Löwe aus der Mitternacht and Johannes Bureus' Roscrucian Papers"
Arthur Versluis, "Jacob Böhme and Kabbalah"
Elliott Wolfson, "Secrecy and the Disclosure of Withholding in Kabbalistic Hermeneutics"
WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND JEWISH MYSTICISM IVCONVENORS: Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jan A. M. SnoekChair: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Albert Roodnat, "J.B. van Helmont's Concept of Butler's Stone and Middle-Life"
Allison P. Coudert, "Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy and Esotericism at the Court of Sulzbach"
W. Trompf, "Esoteric Newton and the Kabbalists' Nosh: Natural Law between Mediaevalie and Modernity"
WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND JEWISH MYSTICISM VCONVENOR and CHAIR: Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jan A. M. Snoek
Chair: Jan Snoek
Olle Hjern, "Esoteric Christianity in Sweden: Emmanuel Swedenborg, the Last Judgement and the New Age"
Jane Williams-Hogan, "Emanuel Swedenborg and the Jewish Kabbalah: Organic or Syncretic Relationship?"
Tomas Mansikka and Nils G. Holm, "Philalethes and Swedenborg: August Nordenskjöld and the Revival of Utopian Alchemy"
WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND JEWISH MYSTICISM VI
CONVENORS: Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jan A. M. Snoek
CHAIR:Antoine Faivre
Martha Keith Schuchard, "Judaized Scots, Jacobite Jews, and the Development of Kabbalistic Freemasonry"
John Collett, "The Integration of Kabbalah with Other Religious Ideas in Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma, 1871"
Pierre Riffard, "Esoterisms and Religion"
WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND JEWISH MYSTICISM VII
CONVENORS Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jan A. M. Snoek
Chair: Antoine Faivre
Henrik Bogdan, "Kabbalah and Western Esoteric Rituals of Initiation"
Marco Pasi, "British Occultism and Kabbalah: From the Golden Dawn to Israel Regardie"
Yuri Stoyanov, "Enochic Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Some Currents of Modern Western Esotericism"
WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND JEWISH MYSTICISM VIII
CONVENORS: Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jan A. M. Snoek
Chair: Arthur Versluis
Jan Snoek, "Influence of Kabbalism on Freemasonry?"
Ralph Liedtke, "Hermeticicsm and Kabbalah in Friedrich von Hardenberg"
Jean-Pierre Laurant, "The Nineteenth Century Reads Kabbalah"
WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND JEWISH MYSTICISM IX
CONVENORS: Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jan A. M. Snoek
CHAIR: Jan Snoek
Eliane Moura Silva, "Esoteric Spirituality in Brazil: The Communion of Thought Esoteric Circle (1908-1943)"
Ana Maria Binet, "Jewish Mysticism and Western Esotericism in the Works of a Portuguese Poet, Fernando Pessoa"
Collette Rayment, "Hiroshima and the Emanations of Glory"
Antoine Faivre, Concluding Address
RELIGION, ASIA AND THE HIMALAYAS
CONVENOR and CHAIR: Miranda Shaw
William Harman, "A Kinder, Gentler Mariyamman and Middle Class Respectability"
Janice Glowski, "Living Goddess as Animate Image: Contextualizing Kumari Worship in Nepal"
Miranda Shaw, "The Vasundhara Vrata in Nepal: Women As Living Bodhisattvas"
Academic Program Committee Chair: Rosalind I J Hackett
Congress Organisers: velia@iafrica.com
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