Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Susannah Crockford
• Julian Strube
• Egil Asprem

Titel

What Do Jade Eggs Tell Us about the Category “Esotericism”?: Spirituality, Neoliberalism, Secrecy, and Commodities

Ist Teil von

• New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism, 2020, Vol.17, p.201

Ort / Verlag

United States: BRILL

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• While the literature on esoteric texts from antiquity through to the contemporary era is growing, there has been comparatively little written so far about material objects in esotericism and the economic conditions in which they are embedded. The products of contemporary spirituality are a starting point in this chapter, used to interrogate characterizations of the “commodification” of spirituality in neoliberalism, and the consequences this has for definitions of the category “esotericism.” Focusing on scholarly arguments that esotericism is characterized by secrecy and rejected knowledge, I question how this applies in the context of global spirituality. Sociological theories of secrecy suggest