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The course enables students to investigate the Western esoteric tradition from the Hellenistic period in late antiquity through the Renaissance and early modern period to the present.
Compulsory modules: The Western Esoteric traditions: historical survey and research methods; dissertation; optional modules: 75 credits from: Alexandrian Hermetism, neo-Platonism and astrology (15); the hermetic art of alchemy (15); renaissance Kabbalah and its influence (15); Rosicrucianism and freemasonry (15); theosophy and the globalisation of Esotericism (30); esoteric traditions in English literature and society 1550-1670 (15); Sufism and Islamic devotional life (15); Gnosticism old and new: the discovery of the Divine Self (30); Witchcraft in history (30); the disenchantment of the world?; society and the supernatural in early modern Europe (30).
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Distance with attendance Oct |
2 - 5 years |
You choose, but you will have to attend some days | No application date provided |
This is a distance learning course but part of it is taught in/at: Streatham Campus |
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University of Exeter
Religious Studies, Philosophy (Theory), History Of Ideas
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