03492nam a2200409Ia 4500 ocn309216093 OCoLC 20200709055206.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 090218s2007 ilu sb 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780226453828 (electronic bk.) 0226453820 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)309216093 260153 (N$T) BL51 .K675 2007eb 299/.932 22 N$TA Kripal, Jeffrey John, 1962- The serpent's gift [electronic resource] : gnostic reflections on the study of religion / Jeffrey J. Kripal. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007. xiv, 223 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-216) and index. Introduction: the serpent's gift. Faith, reason, and gnosis ; The premodern, the modern, and the postmodern ; Toward a gnostic (post)modernity ; Medi(t)ations ; Writing as hissing ; Autobiographical and pedagogical contexts ; The essays -- The apocryphon of the beloved. Invocation ; The quest for the heretical Jesus ; "One will know them by their roots" ; From the womb ; Sexual healings: dispelling the demons of abuse ; Sexual teachings ; The man Jesus loved ; The woman Jesus loved ; The secret -- Restoring the Adam of light. The Adam of light awakened by her ; The fiery brook ; The sacrilegious secret of Christian theology ; Implications of the method ; The historical and intellectual contexts ; "Man is God to man" : the virtues of pluralism and polytheism -- Completing the incarnation of love (and sex) : embodiment in Feuerbach's thought ; The sexuality of numbers ; The cancer and the cure ; Toward a mystical humanism: a gnostic rereading -- Comparative mystics. The rebuke of the gnostic and the oriental Renaissance ; Comparative mystics ; Ramakrishna: colonialism, universalism, mysticism ; Doctrinal and historical-critical analysis ; Ramakrishna and the comparativist ; The critical study of religion as a modern mystical tradition ; The scandal of comparison ; Professional heresy: the gnostic study of religion -- Interlude: Logoi mystikoi; or how to think like a gnostic -- Mutant marvels. Educational and sexual allegory ; On puberty and powers ; Denying the demiurge ; Toward a more radical empiricism ; Dissociation and the release of nonordinary energies ; On death as dissociation ; Real X-Men ; On x-clusions and x-ceptions ; Political allegory; or, how (not) to be an X-Man -- Conclusion: return to the garden. The other tree ; The forbidden fruit ; "When He becomes troubled, He will be astonished" ; The flaming sword and the bridal chamber. Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Religion Philosophy. Gnosticism. Godsdienstwetenschap. gtt Gnosticisme. gtt Electronic books. local NetLibrary, Inc. Original 0226453804 9780226453804 0226453812 9780226453811 (DLC) 2006003044 (OCoLC)63390591 Bibliographic record display http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=260153 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information cpp2873 02 N$T 49381 49381