All Religion is Inter-Religion: Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom

Ghaneabassiri, Kambiz and Robertson, Paul

All Religion is Inter-Religion: Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom - London Bloomsbury Academic 2021 - 308p

Introducing Wasserstrom`s work on Religion Kambiz Ghaneabassiri........1
Nine Theses on the Study of Religion............9
1. Conversing
Anxiety, Lament, and the Language of Silence: Poetic Redemption ad Gnostic Alienation ......17
The Study of Religion in a Postmetaphysical Age...............39
Taxonomy is Epistemology: Theorizing Religion and Hermeticism Polythetically with Wasserstrom`s ............45
Metrosophy: Rereading walter Benjamin in Light of Religion after Religion ..........57
La Perversion de la Cabala Judia ................65
2. Mediating
Before Religion? The Zoroastrian Concept of Daena and two Myths .............77
Nag Hammadi at Eranos...........87
Where the Center of the Rupture is Called Judaism ...............99
Abrahamic Encounters in the Weimar.........109
Far Too Cose: Religion and Reality in the Work of Erich auerbach and Muhammad..........117
3. Rethinking
Is Sethian Gnosticism an Abrahamic Religion .........127
The Repentant Magician ........137
On the Possibility of Jewish Politics in our Time ......147
Medieval Spanish Jews and the Dangers of Wealth ....159
Luksus and the Hasidic Criticque of Postwar American Capitalism ......171


9781350236851

C94.2 / G341

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