New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond - Dylan Michael Burns
The Jungian Gnosticism of the Ecclesia Gnostica
New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond - Dylan Michael Burns
Olav Hammer [+]
University of Southern Denmark
Olav Hammer is Professor of the Study of Religions at the University of Southern Denmark. His main areas of research are new religious movements and other non-traditional religious currents in the post-Enlightenment West. His most recent publication is Western Esotericism in Scandinavia (Brill, forthcoming in April 2016; edited with Henrik Bogdan).
Description
The present chapter examines the ways in which Stephan Hoeller, head of the Ecclesia Gnostica, has transformed a very diverse set of late antique currents, with doctrines phrased in a mythic language unfamiliar to most moderns and rituals only sketchily documented in the sources, into a form of lived religiosity relevant for contemporary audiences.