{"product_id":"gnosticism-and-the-history-of-david-g-robertson-9781350137691","title":"Gnosticism and the History of Religions","description":"Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it was \"essentialised\" into a \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003e, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIt uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals - practitioners and scholars - at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid G. Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David G. Robertson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350137693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350137691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"David G. Robertson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993560842495,"sku":"9781350137691","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2243b721-9aad-4486-95a7-d2356e51aca4.jpg?v=1683325015","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gnosticism-and-the-history-of-david-g-robertson-9781350137691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}