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In Gnostic Countercultures, fourteen scholars investigate countercultural aspects associated with the gnostic which is broadly conceived with reference to the claim to have special knowledge of the divine, which either transcends or transgresses conventional religious knowledge. The papers explore the concept of the gnostic in Western culture from the ancient world to the modern New Age. Contributors trace the emergence, persistence, and disappearance of gnostic religious currents that are perceived to be countercultural, inverted, transgressive and/or subversive in their relationship to conventional religions and their claims to knowledge. The essays represent a selection of the papers delivered at the international congress Gnostic Countercultures: Terror and Intrigue convened at Rice University, March 26-28, 2015. The essays were originally published in Gnosis 1.1-2 (2016) and are available for the first time under separate cover.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Antiquity
The Countercultural Gnostic: Turning the World Upside Down and Inside Out
April D. DeConick
"I Turned away from the Temple": Sethian Counterculture in the Apocryphon of John
Grant Adamson
Transgressing Boundaries: Plotinus and the Gnostics
John D. Turner
Forbidden Knowledge: Cognitive Transgression and "Ascent Above Intellect" in the Debate Between Plotinus and the Gnostics
Zeke Mazur
The Apocalypse of Paul (NHC V,2): Cosmology, Anthropology, and Ethics
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
Gnosis Undomesticated: Archon-Seduction, Demon Sex, and Sodomites in the Paraphrase of Shem (NHC VII,1)
Dylan M. Burns
Gnostic Self-Deification: The Case of Simon of Samaria
M. David Litwa
Demon est Deus Inversus: Honoring the Daemonic in Iamblichean Theurgy
Gregory Shaw
The Coming of the Star-Child: The Reception of the Revelation of the Magi in New Age Religious Thought and Ufology
Brent Landau
Part 2: Modernity
The Great God Pan
Sarah Iles Johnston
Alan Moore's Promethea: Countercultural Gnosis and the End of the World
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Children of the Light: Gnostic Fiction and Gnostic Practice in Vladimir Sorokin's Ice Trilogy
Victoria Nelson
Symbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of Gnosticism
Matthew J. Dillon
Gnostic and Countercultural Elements in Zora Neale Hurston's "Hoodoo in America"
Margarita Simon Guillory
Index 317
