03492nam a2200409Ia 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007001500055008004100070040001300111020003500124020003200159035002100191035001800212050002300230082001700253049000900270100003300279245011600312260005200428300002600480504006600506505187900572533015702451650002602608650001602634650003102650650002202681655002902703710002102732776010302753856018502856910001203041994001203053999001703065ocn309216093OCoLC20200709055206.0m        d        cr cnu---unuuu090218s2007    ilu     sb    001 0 eng d  aN$TcN$T  a9780226453828 (electronic bk.)  a0226453820 (electronic bk.)  a(OCoLC)309216093  a260153b(N$T)14aBL51b.K675 2007eb04a299/.932222  aN$TA1 aKripal, Jeffrey John,d1962-14aThe serpent's gifth[electronic resource] :bgnostic reflections on the study of religion /cJeffrey J. Kripal.  aChicago :bUniversity of Chicago Press,cc2007.  axiv, 223 p. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-216) and index.0 aIntroduction: 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bBoulder, Colo. :cNetLibrary,d2009.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. 0aReligionxPhilosophy. 0aGnosticism.17aGodsdienstwetenschap.2gtt17aGnosticisme.2gtt 7aElectronic books.2local2 aNetLibrary, Inc.1 cOriginalz0226453804z9780226453804z0226453812z9780226453811w(DLC)  2006003044w(OCoLC)633905914 3Bibliographic record displayuhttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=260153zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information  acpp2873  a02bN$T  c49381d49381