Research Catalog

Rending the veil : concealment and secrecy in the history of religions

Title
  1. Rending the veil : concealment and secrecy in the history of religions / New York University Annual Conference in Comparative Religions ; edited by Elliot R. Wolfson.
Published by
  1. New York : Seven Bridges Press, c1999.

Items in the library and off-site

Filter by

Displaying 1 item

StatusFormatAccessCall numberItem location
Status
Request for on-site useRequest scan

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

FormatBook/TextAccessUse in libraryCall number*OAS 00-10126Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

Details

Additional authors
  1. Wolfson, Elliot R.
Description
  1. ix, 347 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Secrecy > Religious aspects
Contents
  1. Introduction / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Messianic secret and the Gospel of Mark : secrecy in Jewish apocalypticism, the Hellenistic mystery religions, and magic / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Secrecy, revelation, and the late antique demiurgical myths / Michael A. Williams -- The paradox of the veil in Sufism / William C. Chittick -- Visions and critiques of visions in thirteenth-century mysticism / Bernard McGinn -- Occultation of the feminine and the body of secrecy in medieval Kabbalah / Eliot R. Wolfson -- The notions of concealment and secrecy in modern esoteric currents since the Renaissance (a methodological approach) / Antoine Faivre -- Emanuel Swedenborg : deciphering the codes of a celestial and terrestrial intelligence / Marsha Keith Schuchard -- Cuspidal limits on infinity : secret of the incarnate self in Levinas / D.G. Leahy -- Tantric sects and Tantric sex : the flow of secret Tantric gnosis / David Gordon White -- Relics, regalia, and the dynamics of secrecy in Japanese Buddhism / Bernard Foure -- Gurus and disciples in Tibet : worlds visible and invisible / Anne C. Klein.
Call number
  1. *OAS 00-10126
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Title
  1. Rending the veil : concealment and secrecy in the history of religions / New York University Annual Conference in Comparative Religions ; edited by Elliot R. Wolfson.
Imprint
  1. New York : Seven Bridges Press, c1999.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added author
  1. Wolfson, Elliot R.
LCCN
  1. 98040183
ISBN
  1. 1889119032 (pbk.)
Research call number
  1. *OAS 00-10126 (Locked cage)
View in legacy catalog