Gnosticism and the History of Religions

Gnosticism and the History of Religions cover

David Robertson, London: Bloomsbury, 2021

Description

Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was ‘invented’, this work focuses on the following stage in which it was “essentialised” into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses.

This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century. It uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals – practitioners and scholars – at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world.

David G. Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation.

(Text from the publishers)

Link

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/gnosticism-and-the-history-of-religions-9781350137691/

LEM/ EPHE

PSL Week

Problèmes d’histoire des religions

Description et organisation

6-10 mars 2023, 

EPHE, 54, bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, 1er sous-sol, salle 1

Programme

Lundi 6 mars 2023 

Institutions et sciences religieuses (1) : 

13h30-15h30 : Sylvio De Franceschi (EPHE, LEM) : « L’institutionnalisation des sciences religieuses en France. » 

15h30-17h30 : Sylvio De Franceschi (EPHE, LEM) : « Du Centre d’études des religions du Livre au Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes. »

Mardi 7 mars 2023 

Formes et méthodes de transmission des savoirs religieux. Approches comparées : 

10h-12h : Vincent Eltschinger (EPHE, GREI) : « Interpréter, argumenter et transmettre dans le bouddhisme indien. » 

13h30-15h30 : Mathieu Terrier (CNRS, LEM) : « Tradition scripturaire et argumentation rationnelle dans le shî’isme imamite. » 

15h30-17h30 : Julie Brumberg-Chaumont (CNRS, LEM) : « Méthodes et arguments à l’âge des universités : la scolastique en questions. » 

 Mercredi 8 mars 2023  

Qu’est-ce que la mystique ? Approches comparées : 

10h-12h : Luciana Soares Santoprete (CNRS, LEM) : « La beauté et les états mystiques chez Plotin. » 

13h30-15h30 : Daniel De Smet (CNRS, LEM) : « Soufisme et shî’isme : des rapports complexes et ambigus. » 

15h30-17h30 : Simon Icard (CNRS, LEM) : « Quelle place pour la théologie dans l’histoire de la mystique chrétienne ? »

Jeudi 9 mars 2023 

Institutions et sciences religieuses (2) : 

9h-11h : Philippe Portier (EPHE, GSRL) : « Le Groupe Sociétés, religions, laïcités (GSRL) : deux décennies de recherches. » 

Après-midi libre 

 Vendredi 10 mars 2022 

Monothéisme/polythéisme : repenser deux catégories de l’histoire des religions : 

10h-12h : Anna Van den Kerchove (IPT, LEM) : « Penser le polythéisme et le monothéisme en contexte polémique dans l’antiquité. » 

13h30-15h30 : Constantin Macris (CNRS, LEM) : « Des monothéistes chez les polythéistes ? Retour sur le débat autour du monothéisme païen. » 

15h30-17h30 : Daniel Barbu (CNRS, LEM) : « De l’idolâtrie à l’histoire comparée des religions. »

Contact

lem-umr8584-contact@services.cnrs.fr

Lien

https://psl-week.psl.eu/LISTE-DES-PSL-WEEKS.php

Foro di studi avanzati Gaetano Massa

Presentation 

Foro di Studi Avanzati has its origins as an association of scholars under the aegis of Dr. Gaetano Massa and Prof. Riccardo Campa in Rome and New York. Dr. Gaetano Massa [1911-2009] was a scholar, journalist, and librarian of the art and literatures of Italy, Iberia and Latin America. Prof. Riccardo Campa [1934-] is a scholar of philosophy, literature and the cultures of Italy, Spain and Latin America and a colleague of Borges and Montale. Both remain profound patrons of the Republic of Letters to whom we all are all indebted. Supported by the Instituto e Biblioteca Italo-Latino Americano, the Monsignor Jannone Foundation of Rome and private sponsors, they organized meetings of the Instituto Italo-Latino Americano in Italy, Spain, and Latin America, and symposia of The International Society for Aristotelian Studies and The International Society for Neoplatonic Studies in Rome and New York. At the Academia Real de Espana in Rome on June 25th 2013 the Foro di Studi Avanzati was established with the signing of its inaugural Statuto. On June 17th 2015 the FSA Buenos Aires Declaration was published to inaugurate our annual FSA/Roma conferences sponsored in part by The Institute at Caesars Head Ltd. USA. Foro di Studi Avanzati has as its model symposia held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during the winter of 1951-1952 and were attended by Gaetano Massa. In symposia, Kristeller, Cassirer, Sarton, Bainton and Panofsky devoted themselves to the cultural background of a given period, mapping it from different points of view. Burckhardt’s Die Zeit Constantin’s des Grossen, Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien and Croce’s Estetica framed the horizons of these conferences. Broadly speaking, the age of Diocletian marked a stage in the transition from the late classical civilizations of the Roman Empire to the Christian-Romano-Germanic civilizations of the early Middle Ages. The Renaissance marked for mid-twentieth century scholarship a dialectical transition from the fully developed civilization of the high Middle Ages to the modern world. Late Antiquity is recognized today similarly as a pivotal age of inheritance and transition and is included in our research programs. Foro di Studi Avanzati maintains the spirit of Gaetano Massa and Riccardo Campa by supporting the Humanities as classically defined, emphasizing that its histories, literatures, arts, languages, philosophy and religions still speak to us in a modern age. Humanista, coined at the height of the Renaissance period in Italy, was derived from an older term – studia humanitatis. In the general sense, it was a literary education in a style advocated by Cicero and Gellius. To be revived by Petrarch, Pico, Ficino and Cusanus it remained the basis for university curricula into modernity. Both terms stood for a clearly defined cycle of 2 scholarly disciplines – grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry and moral philosophy read in the context of Latin and to a lesser extent, Greek sources. Texts studied derived not only from Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Boethius in the original; but also from a variety of newly discovered writings. Hence Seneca, Plutarch, Pindar, Pausanius, Plautus, Lucian, Terence, Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus and Plotinus became part of a renaissance and later modern canons. Moreover, the sources of Neoplatonic theurgy and religion, and the apocryphal works attributed to the Pythagoreans, Orpheus, Zoroaster and Hermes Trismegistus were also introduced to be currently studied from the precipice of Nag Hammadi and later Platonism. Such remains possible because Chrysoloras suggested the first Latin translations of Plato’s Republic while Plethon’s visit to Florence in 1438 left a deep impression. So much so that Cardinal Bessarion’s defense of Plato over Aristotle exercised influence not only into the sixteenth century but into contemporary debate as well. It was a Renaissance belief in the value of learning as the molder of character derived from a study of the philosophy, theology, aesthetics, religion, and the arts that defines Foro di Studi Avanzati as a collegia academicae. As humanista dedicated to a studia humanitatis our amici academicae and artis map connections between ancient, medieval, renaissance and modern worlds. Indeed, we are perhaps akin to Poggio, who like a pig to truffles unearthed in the Swiss monastery of St. Gall the entire works of Quintilian, the poems of Lucretius, discourses by Cicero, treatises on architecture by Vitruvius and on agriculture by Columella, and celebrated in Rome. And we follow the examples, as best we can, of three popes: Nicholas V, who created a fitting setting for this great library by housing it in the Vatican Library, its books exquisitely bound in red velvet with silver caps; and Sixtus VI and Alexander VI who invited philosophers, rhetoricians, poets, historians, philologists, grammarians and professori of Latin and Greek to the Vatican Library for study. Much more modestly indeed, FSA welcomes its amici yearly to Casa Filippini in Rome – where under the aegis of Pio IX and Cardinale Cremonesi- we engage in studies of ancient, medieval, renaissance and early modern texts and contexts.

Contact

https://www.fsa-fas.org/contact

Link

https://www.fsa-fas.org/?cid=d4ba964f-c639-4494-b09b-2fcae6802367&utm_campaign=494afeef-b255-47ae-a33e-abe1fab2b57d&utm_medium=mail&utm_source=so

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN, BR

IV Seminário Ibero-Americano

de Estudos Neoplatônicos: Mística e Política

 

Programa

Segunda-feira, 30 de Janeiro

Sessão 1 (10:00 – 12:30) Neoplatonismo Antigo

“Asimilación, deificación y experiencia mística en Plotino”
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Andrés Poblete (Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina)

“Plotino e a justificativa do poder político do imperador Juliano, o rei-filósofo” Prof. Dr. Bruno Camilo de Oliveira (Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-árido)

“Mística e anarquia: considerações neoplatônicas”
Prof. Dr. Cicero Bezerra (Universidade Federal de Sergipe)

“La vía racional de ascenso al Bien en Plotino (Enéada I, 3)”. Profa. Dra. Malena Tonelli (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

Sessão 2 (15:00 – 18:00) Neoplatonismo Antigo

“Exégesis mística y disposición ‘política’ del alma en Proclo”
Prof. Dr. José Maria Zamora Calvo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

“Prendersi cura degli uomini secondo il modo che è proprio degli dèi: l’ascesa dalle virtù politiche alle virtù teurgiche nella Vita Procli di Marino”
Claudia Gianturco (Università degli Studi di Salerno – Italia, EPHE – Paris, France)

“Apofatismo na filosofia procleana: consequências de um Uno imparticipado” Suelen Pereira da Cunha (Universidade Federal do Ceará)

“Autarquia y mística en Proclo”
Prof. Dr. José María Nieva (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán)

Terça-feira 31 de janeiro

Sessão 3 (10:00 – 12:30) Neoplatonismo e religião

“A formação das virtudes ético-políticas como pré-requisito para a prática teúrgica”
Prof. Dr. Julio Cesar Moreira (University of Minnesota)

“El tema de la Jerusalén celeste en el gnosticismo y en Orígenes” Prof. Dr. José Antonio Antón Pacheco (Universidad de Sevilla)

“Mística e originalidade: a receita para uma expulsão (herem)” Profa. Dra. Cecilia Cintra Cavaleiro de Macedo (UNIFESP)

“Neoplatonismo, Sufismo, Política e Tragédia”
Prof. Dr. Edrisi Fernandes (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte/Archai UnB)

Sessão 4 (15:00 – 18:00) Neoplatonismo Medieval

“Juan, Pedro y Pablo en la Vox spiritualis de Eriúgena: mística y política en la Corte de Carlos el Calvo”
Prof. Dr. Ezequiel Ludueña (Universidad de Buenos Aires-Universidad Nacional La Matanza)

“La libertad en Pedro Olivi y los espirituales” Prof. Dr. Jesús de Garay (Universidad de Sevilla)

“Imperio y cuerpo de cristo en el De concordantia catholica de Nicolás de cusa” Profa. Dra. Victoria Arroche (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

“Cusano: ecumenismo y visión de Dios”
Profa. Dra. Claudia D’Amico (Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET)

Quarta-feira 1o Fevereiro

Sessão 5 (10:00-12:30) Neoplatonismo medieval

“Las almas libres y nobles en el Espejo de las almas simples de Margarita Porete” Carolina Durán (Doctoranda en Filosofía, Universidad de Buenos Aires)

“Mestre Eckhart: a mística como modo de vida”
Elves Franklin Bispo de Araujo (PPGFIL – Universidade Federal de Sergipe)

“A sagração do cotidiano: mística e política em Mestre Eckhart”
Prof. Dr. Oscar Federico Bauchwitz (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande de Norte)

“Mística y política en la obra de Maestro Eckhart” Profa. Dra. Alessandra Beccarisi (Università di Foggia)

Sessão 6 (15:00-18:00)
Recepção Moderna e contemporânea

“Os furores em Ficino e Bruno: um virtuosismo místico?”
Profa. Dra. Monalisa Macedo (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande de Norte)

“Mística y política en el pensamiento de Giordano Bruno”
Prof. Dr. José Gonzales Ríos (Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET)

“La dimensión política de la imaginación colmadora en la mística de Simone Weil”
José Robles (Universidad de Guanajuato)

“Roquentin e Riobaldo. A mística em Sartre e Guimarães Rosa” Prof. Dr. Noeli Rossato (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria)

Contato

neoplatonismo@bol.com.br

Link

https://www.anpof.org/agenda/eventos/iv-seminario-ibero-americano-de-estudos-neoplatonicos-mistica-e-politica

Open Access Digital Theological Library

Description and organization

The mission of Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) is to curate high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections. The OADTL uses the world’s most advanced integrated library system (ILS) for cataloging and discovery. This system, OCLC’s WorldShare, makes content easily discoverable and retrievable. The OADTL is staffed by professional librarians and curates content without regard for theological or confessional perspective. It is hoped that the increased access to high-quality religious studies content will serve scholars and students of religion.

Link

https://oadtl.org/about

Constructions of Mysticism as a Universal

Roots and Interactions Across Borders

Annette Wilke, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021

Description

This volume charts the fascinating history of the multiple roots and interactions which underlie the modern popular understanding of mysticism as a universal phenomenon across epochs and cultures. In an unprecedentedly broad interdisciplinary exchange, international scholars from different disciplines critically examine the concept and mental maps of the term ‘mysticism’ which enjoyed a central role in classical theories of religion, as developed in fields like Psychology, Sociology, History or Phenomenology. However, mysticism lost its prominence after the controversial debates in the second half of the twentieth century about whether mystical experience should be considered universal or socio-culturally constructed. After four decades of silence, this volume ventures a stimulatingly novel approach to mysticism as a universal, transcultural category from the perspective of the Cultural Studies of Religion. This includes the question of how a European concept fraught with Christian notions was transferred to non-European cultures and secular contexts, and thereby attained new meanings and functions in daily life. Fresh insights are gained by examining three major areas: a) mysticism’s potential for boundary crossing in earlier centuries of European history; b) the history of mysticism research in context – from the mysticism boom at the fin de siècle and early twentieth century to its renewed attractiveness in American counterculture and the psychedelic movement to its transformation into postmodern spirituality; and c) universal mysticism’s absorption of Eastern religions (notably Buddhism, Hindu traditions, and Daoism) as well as Asian insiders’ self-conceptions.

(Text from the publisher)

Link

https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_1314.ahtml

The Wisdom of Hypatia

Welcome to my website! It supplements my book, The Wisdom of Hypatia: Ancient Spiritual Practices for a More Meaningful Life, which teaches a system of spiritual practice that provides a valuable way of life in the contemporary world. Hypatia was the most famous female spiritual teacher of ancient Alexandria. The mix of classical philosophies she taught to Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the fourth century forms the very foundation of Western mysticism, spiritual practice, and magic as we know it today. The Wisdom of Hypatia: Ancient Spiritual Practices for a more Meaningful life, offers a progressive, nine-month program based on the teachings of this inspiring Pagan Neoplatonic Philosopher, Discover how to bring purpose, tranquility, and spiritual depth to your life through exercises and techniques divided into three degrees of wisdom: Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Neoplatonism. This virtual course in philosophy, well-being, and divine union is an essential and practical introduction to the ancient wisdom of the West.

By Bruce J. MacLennan, PhD.

(Text from the website). 

Link

http://wisdomofhypatia.com/home.html

IMS-FORTH

Between Athens & Alexandria

Description and organization

“Between Athens & Alexandria” studies the relationship between the Neoplatonic Schools of Athens and Alexandria as well as the Alexandrian origins of Neoplatonism, with a special focus on later Neoplatonic developments on, and criticisms to, Plotinus (204/5-270). Are the Schools of Athens and Alexandria essentially distinct, as the traditional view suggests, or can their differences be reduced to the organisation of teaching? To what extent does the attitude towards theurgy (originally flourishing in the Neoplatonic School of Syria founded by Iamblichus of Chalcis) define the orientation of the Schools? Can the harmonization of Plato and Aristotle “bridge the gap” between Athens and Alexandria? The driving research hypothesis of the project is that the Neoplatonic Schools of Athens and Alexandria are essentially one School adapting itself to the different environments of the two cities. The view according to which the attitude towards theurgy constitutes the main difference between Athenian Neoplatonism, traditionally considered as following Iamblichus’ purportedly anti-intellectualist lead, and Alexandrian Neoplatonism, often regarded as “Porphyrian”, is put into question. Porphyry (c. 234-305) and Iamblichus (c. 245-325), and their respective followers in the 4th century, seem to have more in common than has been thought until now. Porphyrian and Iamblichaean trends are present in both Athens and Alexandria. Plotinus’ synthesis of Platonism with Aristotelian and Stoic elements is dynamic, and continues to incorporate innovation into tradition beyond the boundaries of Antiquity, and even of philosophy itself. Focusing on Athens and Alexandria, the project aims at investigating the wider network of late antique Neoplatonic Schools in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as this network’s legacy in the Arabic and Byzantine worlds. Studying late ancient Neoplatonism from the point of its Byzantine and Arabic receptions may reveal a much more unitary picture of the final phase of ancient philosophy than previous reconstructions suggest. The project is hosted by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (IMS-FORTH) in collaboration with the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies (ACHS) of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It is supported by the A. S. Onassis Foundation.

Link

https://athens-alexandria.ims.forth.gr/

Platonismus und Christentum

Ihre Beziehungen und deren Grenzen

Platonismus und Christentum

Eve-Marie Becker und Holger Strutwolf, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2022

Description

The present volume explores the relationship between Platonism and Christianity in late antiquity with regard to concept of God, world formation, creation, providence, and freedom. The contributions by Christoph Markschies, Holger Strutwolf, Christian Pietsch, and Alfons Fürst were presented at a colloquium on the occasion of Barbara Aland’s eighty-fifth birthday and are collected in the present volume together with a reply by the jubilarian and a short introduction by Eve-Marie Becker.

Table of contents

Eve-Marie Becker Platonismus und Christentum. Ihre Beziehungen und deren Grenzen Zur Einführung in diesen Band  p. 1

Christoph Markschies ἦν ποτε ὅτε οὐκ ἦν oder: Schwierigkeiten bei der Beschreibung dessen, was vor aller Zeit war . 11 Holger Strutwolf Ewige Zeugung. Die Paradoxie des absoluten Ursprungs im Neuplatonismus und im christlichen Denken, p. 41

Christian Pietsch Providenz. Getaufter Platonismus am Beispiel von Augustins De Genesi ad litteram, p. 69

Alfons Fürst Freiheit in der römischen Kaiserzeit – platonisch und christlich, p. 89

Barbara Aland Platonismus und Christentum. Ihre Beziehungen und deren Grenzen Ein persönlicher Dank und eine Antwort, p. 121

Indices, p.137

1. Personenregister, p. 137

2. Sachregister, p. 139

Link

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/platonismus-und-christentum-9783161618086?no_cache=1

LEM/EPHE

Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive

Cycle de conférences 2022-2023

Description et organisation

La vie intellectuelle de la fin de l’Antiquité est caractérisée par un fort intérêt porté aux « principes » (archai) : principes de la réalité, principes du monde, principes de la connaissance. Quelle que soit la façon dont on regroupe les intellectuels de la fin de l’Antiquité – polythéistes ou chrétiens, philosophes ou théologiens −, tous parlent, explicitement ou implicitement, des principes. Certains cherchent même activement à déterminer ce que sont les principes (par ex., Origène, Plotin, Porphyre, Damascius, les gnostiques, les Hermétistes, les théurgistes). Cette recherche est pour eux capitale, afin d’établir la manière dont la réalité est structurée, de réfléchir à la place des êtres humains dans le monde et aux puissances qui affectent leur vie, de penser dans quelle mesure nous sommes libres, comment nous pouvons atteindre la connaissance, ainsi qu’obtenir le bonheur ou le salut. La recherche des principes (métaphysiques ou théologiques) est ainsi un thème important en lui-même et pour la formation éthique. Le Programme des rencontres 2022-2023 du projet de recherche Les Platonismes de l’Antiquité tardive propose d’explorer cette thématique des « principes » (archai) dans le monde intellectuel de la fin de l’Antiquité. Il examinera différentes questions, telles que : comment les principes disent la réalité, comment ils expliquent les relations entre les mondes divin et humain et dans quelle mesure le bonheur et le salut sont possibles pour les humains étant donné la structure de la réalité.

English version

The intellectual life of late antiquity is characterized by a strong concern with principles (archai): principles of reality, principles of the world, principles of knowledge. Regardless of how one groups intellectuals in late antiquity— into pagans and Christians, philosophers and theologians—they all speak about principles explicitly or implicitly and some of them actively seek to establish what the principles are (e.g., Plotinus, Porphyry, Origen, Damascius, Gnostics, Hermeticists, theurgists). They clearly deem the project of principles to be crucial for establishing how reality is structured, what the place of humans in the world is, what powers affect our lives, how free are we, how we can attain knowledge, and how we can attain happiness or salvation. The search for principles (understood as metaphysical or theological) is then an important issue both of itself and also for shaping ethics. The series of talks in the academic year 2022-2023 of the research project The Platonisms of the Late Antiquity will explore this topic of “principles” (archai) in its broad application in the intellectual world of late antiquity and will examine questions such as how principles account for reality, how principles explain the interaction between the divine and the human world, and how human happiness and salvation is possible given the structure of reality.

Versão em português

O projeto de pesquisa « Platonismes de l’Antiquité Tardive : interactions philosophiques et religieuses » (Platonismos da Antiguidade Tardia: interações filosóficas e religiosas) tem por objetivo criar um espaço de encontro regular permitindo a colaboração de pesquisadores e pesquisadoras trabalhando nas áreas de história da filosofia e história das religiões. Esse projeto visa estudar as trocas entre os pensamentos filosóficos, filosófico-religiosos e religiosos da época do Império romano e da Antiguidade tardia a fim de melhor compreender tanto seu impacto sobre a emergência e a construção das filosofias neoplatônicas, quanto identificar as fontes filosóficas dos textos gnósticos, herméticos e dos Oráculos caldeus. Trata-se da continuação de um projeto colaborativo precedente, « Plotin et les gnostiques » (Plotino e os gnósticos), alargando o seu campo de pesquisa quanto à cronologia (antes e depois de Plotino) e quanto aos corpus estudados (médio platonismo, hermetismo, etc.), e está em ligação direta com a temática da base de dados https://platonismes.huma-num.fr/

Contact

Projet pluriannel de recherches dirigé par Luciana Soares Santoprete, Anna Van den Kerchove, George Karamanolis, Éric Crégheur et Dylan Burns / Research project directed by Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete, Anna Van den Kerchove, George Karamanolis, Éric Crégheur and Dylan Burns.

 

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