RT Review
T1 A Gnostic History of Religions
JF Method & theory in the study of religion
VO 32
IS 1
SP 75
OP 88
A1 Robertson, David G. 1975-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1698778015
AB April DeConick’s The Gnostic New Age demonstrates that scholarship of Gnosticism is still entrenched in an Eliadian phenomenological paradigm which essentializes an ahistorical sui generis “Gnosis”. This approach is traceable to the Eranos Circle, particularly Carl G. Jung and Gilles Quispel, and builds certain philosophical and psychoanalytical affinities into an ahistorical religious current. DeConick’ comparison with New Age is tenuous, and misses the important fact that Gnosticism and New Age share specific genealogical antecedents. Interdisciplinary work needs to pay more attention to the theological and colonial implications of categories, or such problematic categories will continue to take root in the gaps between academic specialisms.
K1 Gilles Quispel
K1 New Age
K1 Gnosticism
K1 Phenomenology
K1 Spirituality
K1 Sui Generis
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1163/15700682-12341464