Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Beyond the Yates Paradigm: the Study of Western Esotericism Between Counterculture and New Complexity1

Beyond the Yates Paradigm: the Study of Western Esotericism Between Counterculture and New... BEYOND THE YATES PARADIGM: THE STUDY OF WESTERN ESOTERICISM BETWEEN COUNTERCULTURE AND NEW COMPLEXITY1 WOUTER J. HANEGRAAFF 1. Two Revolutions The study of western esotericism finds itself in the middle of a process of academic professionalization and institutionalization2. Before addressing some problems connected with this development, and as an introduction to them, I would like to draw a parallel which may seem surprising at first sight. It is well known that the turbulent period of the 1960s produced, among many other things, the so-called sexual revolution: a complex social phenomenon with wide-ranging effects, including the emergence of the academic study of sexuality and sex-related problems in the context of new disciplines such as gender studiesj. While this revolution has not led to the sexually liberated cul- ture once predicted by its defenders, it did succeed in breaking the social taboo on sex as a subject of discussion, in the academy and in society as a whole4. New disciplines such as gender studies have flourished since the 1960s, and there can be no doubt that any attempt to curtail or suppress scholarly discus- sion and research related to sexuality would nowadays be rejected by academ- ics as an unacceptable http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aries Brill

Beyond the Yates Paradigm: the Study of Western Esotericism Between Counterculture and New Complexity1

Hanegraaff, Wouter J.
Aries , Volume 1 (1): 5 – Jan 1, 2001
Download PDF
33 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/beyond-the-yates-paradigm-the-study-of-western-esotericism-between-GMjrcwZJkk

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1567-9896
eISSN
1570-0593
DOI
10.1163/157005901X00020
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

BEYOND THE YATES PARADIGM: THE STUDY OF WESTERN ESOTERICISM BETWEEN COUNTERCULTURE AND NEW COMPLEXITY1 WOUTER J. HANEGRAAFF 1. Two Revolutions The study of western esotericism finds itself in the middle of a process of academic professionalization and institutionalization2. Before addressing some problems connected with this development, and as an introduction to them, I would like to draw a parallel which may seem surprising at first sight. It is well known that the turbulent period of the 1960s produced, among many other things, the so-called sexual revolution: a complex social phenomenon with wide-ranging effects, including the emergence of the academic study of sexuality and sex-related problems in the context of new disciplines such as gender studiesj. While this revolution has not led to the sexually liberated cul- ture once predicted by its defenders, it did succeed in breaking the social taboo on sex as a subject of discussion, in the academy and in society as a whole4. New disciplines such as gender studies have flourished since the 1960s, and there can be no doubt that any attempt to curtail or suppress scholarly discus- sion and research related to sexuality would nowadays be rejected by academ- ics as an unacceptable

Journal

Aries – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2001

There are no references for this article.