Hugh B. Urban / Хью Б. Урбан - Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism / Секс, магия и освобождение в западном эзотерицизме [2006, PDF, ENG]

Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism

Год выпуска: 2006
Автор: Hugh B. Urban
Жанр: эзотерика, история, сексуальная магия
Издательство: University of California Press
ISBN: 978-0520247765
Формат: PDF
Качество: OCR без ошибок
Количество страниц: 349
Язык: английский

Описание: "This book offers a fascinating account of the development of Western sexual magic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urban focuses on an extraordinary set of historical figures, and his rich analysis illuminates the sexual - and supernatural - undercurrents that have shaped modernity." - Randall Styers, author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World"

Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic--the use of sex as a source of magical power--emerged. This book, the first history of western sexual magic as a modern spiritual tradition, places these practices in the context of the larger discourse surrounding sexuality in American and European society over the last 150 years to discover how sexual magic was transformed from a terrifying medieval nightmare of heresy and social subversion into a modern ideal of personal empowerment and social liberation. Focusing on a series of key figures including American spiritualist Paschal Beverly Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Julius Evola, Gerald Gardner, and Anton LaVey, Hugh Urban traces the emergence of sexual magic out of older western esoteric traditions including Gnosticism and Kabbalah, which were progressively fused with recently-discovered eastern traditions such as Hindu and Buddhist Tantra. His study gives remarkable new insight into sexuality in the modern era, specifically on issues such as the politics of birth control, the classification of sexual "deviance," debates over homosexuality and feminism, and the role of sexuality in our own new world of post-modern spirituality, consumer capitalism, and the Internet.

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Замечательное исследование развития западной сексуальной магии 19-20 вв. Фокусируя внимание на экстраординарных исторических фигурах, Урбан делает ощутимый вклад в понимание эзотерических традиций, сформировавших настоящее.