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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226453812
ISBN-13
9780226453811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52033038
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Serpent's Gift : Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion
Subject
Theology, Christianity / History, Gnosticism, Philosophy
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-003044
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
299.932
Table Of Content
Preface: Digging Up My Library Acknowledgments Introduction: The Serpent's Gift Faith, Reason, and Gnosis The Premodern, the Modern, and the Postmodern Toward a Gnostic (Post)Modernity Medi(t)ations Writing as Hissing Autobiographical and Pedagogical Contexts The Essays 1 The Apocryphon of the Beloved Invocation The Quest for the Heretical Jesus "One Will Know Them by Their Roots" From the Womb . . . Sexual Healings: Dispelling the Demons of Abuse Sexual Teachings The Man Jesus Loved The Woman Jesus Loved The Secret 2 Restoring the Adam of Light The Adam of Light Awakened by Her The Fiery Brook The Sacrilegious Secret of Christian Theology Implications of the Method The Historical and Intellectual Contexts "Man Is God to Man": The Virtues of Pluralism and Polytheism Completing the Incarnation of Love (and Sex): Embodiment in Feedback's Thought The Sexuality of Numbers The Cancer and the Cure Toward a Mystical Humanism: A Gnostic Rereading 3 Comparative Mystics The Rebuke of the Gnostic and the Oriental Renaissance Comparative Mystics Ramakrishna: Colonialism, Universalism, Mysticism Doctrinal and Historical-Critical Analysis Ramakrishna and the Comparativist The Critical Study of Religion as a Modern Mystical Tradition The Scandal of Comparison Professional Heresy: The Gnostic Study of Religion Interlude: Logoi Mystikoi; or, How to Think like a Gnostic 4 Mutant Marvels Educational and Sexual Allegory On Puberty and Powers Denying the Demiurge Toward a More Radical Empiricism Dissociation and the Release of Nonordinary Energies On Death as Dissociation Real X-Men On X-clusions and X-ceptions Political Allegory; or, How (Not) to Be an X-Man Conclusion: Return to the Garden The Other Tree The Forbidden Fruit "When He Becomes Troubled, He Will Be Astonished" The Flaming Sword and the Bridal Chamber Notes The Fruit of the Tree; or, My Gnostic Library before I Have to Bury It (Again) Index
Synopsis
"Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field." With those words in Genesis, God condemns the serpent for tempting Adam and Eve, and the serpent has shouldered the blame ever since. But how would the study of religion change if we looked at the Fall from the snake's point of view? Would he appear as a bringer of wisdom, more generous than the God who wishes to keep his creation ignorant? Inspired by the early Gnostics who took that startling view, Jeffrey J. Kripal uses the serpent as a starting point for a groundbreaking reconsideration of religious studies and its methods. In a series of related essays, he moves beyond both rational and faith-based approaches to religion, exploring the erotics of the gospels and the sexualities of Jesus, John, and Mary Magdalene. He considers Feuerbach's Gnosticism, the untapped mystical potential of comparative religion, and even the modern mythology of the X-Men. Ultimately, The Serpent's Gift is a provocative call for a complete reorientation of religious studies, aimed at a larger understanding of the world, the self, and the divine.
LC Classification Number
BL51.K675 2006
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