Rending the veil : concealment and secrecy in the history of religions
- Title
- 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
- New York : Seven Bridges Press, c1999.
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- Additional authors
- Description
- ix, 347 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- 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
- *OAS 00-10126
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Title
- 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
- New York : Seven Bridges Press, c1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added author
- Wolfson, Elliot R.
- LCCN
- 98040183
- ISBN
- 1889119032 (pbk.)
- Research call number
- *OAS 00-10126 (Locked cage)