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In Gnostic Afterlives, fourteen scholars explore the intersection of Gnostic spirituality in American religion and culture. Papers theorize Gnosis/Gnostic in modernity, examine neo-Gnostic movements in America, and investigate the Gnostic in popular American films, literature, art, and other aspects of culture.
Contents
1 Introduction: Gnostic Afterlives in American Religion and Culture
April D. DeConick
Part 1: Theorizing the Gnostic in Modernity
2 The Sociology of Gnostic Spirituality
April D. DeConick
3 Can We Recover Gnosis Today?
Gregory Shaw
4 What Is Gnosis: An Exploration
Arthur Versluis
Part 2: (Neo-)Gnostic Movements in America
5 The Knowing of Knowing
Neo-Gnosticism, from the O.T.O. to Scientology
Hugh B. Urban
6 Know Place: Heaven's Gate and American Gnosticism
Cathy Gutierrez
7 American Gnosis: Jesus Mysticism in A Course in Miracles
Simon J. Joseph
8 The New Age and Gnosticism: Terms of Commonality
Mitch Horowitz
Part 3: The Gnostic in Popular American Culture
9 The Gnostic in Us All: Thinking from the Macrobiotics of Michio Kushi
Catherine L. Albanese
10 The Space Jockey and the Future of Enjoyment: Alienated Sentience in the World of H. R. Giger
Eric Wargo
11 A Metaphysical Rebel? Camus's Analysis of Gnosticism and Its Influence on Literature and Cinema
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
12 Eric Voegelin and Gnostic Hollywood
Fryderyk Kwiatkowski
13 The Afterlives of the Archons: Gnostic Literalism and Embodied Paranoia in 21st CE Conspiracy Theory
Matthew Dillon
14 The Electric Chrism Acid Test: The Problem of Psychedelic Gnosis
Erik Davis
15 Reflections of an American Gnostic
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Index