'The Judges of Normality are Everywhere’: Has Esotericism and the Ideas of H. P. Blavatsky Ever Been Normal?
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'The Judges of Normality are Everywhere’ : Has Esotericism and the Ideas of H. P. Blavatsky Ever Been Normal?. / Rudbøg, Tim.
Esotericism and Deviance. red. / Manon Hedenborg White; Tim Rudbøg. Brill, 2023. s. 83–104 (Aries Book Series, Bind 33).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - 'The Judges of Normality are Everywhere’
T2 - Has Esotericism and the Ideas of H. P. Blavatsky Ever Been Normal?
AU - Rudbøg, Tim
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Invoking Foucault, this chapter problematizes the constructed nature of both deviance and normalcy. On this basis, the chapter considers how the study of esotericism has facilitated historical reconsideration of the deviance of number of people and traditions, including Giordano Bruno, John Dee, Paracelsus and Hermeticism. Continuing this trajectory, Rudbøg queries whether Blavatsky’s Theosophy has ever been “normal.” Although the nineteenth century coincided with the emergence of a natural-scientific paradigm with which Theosophy partially clashed the pronounced exchanges between Theosophy and scholars such as Max Müller evinces that the demarcation between normalcy and deviance has remained blurred well into modernity.
AB - Invoking Foucault, this chapter problematizes the constructed nature of both deviance and normalcy. On this basis, the chapter considers how the study of esotericism has facilitated historical reconsideration of the deviance of number of people and traditions, including Giordano Bruno, John Dee, Paracelsus and Hermeticism. Continuing this trajectory, Rudbøg queries whether Blavatsky’s Theosophy has ever been “normal.” Although the nineteenth century coincided with the emergence of a natural-scientific paradigm with which Theosophy partially clashed the pronounced exchanges between Theosophy and scholars such as Max Müller evinces that the demarcation between normalcy and deviance has remained blurred well into modernity.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004681040_006
DO - 10.1163/9789004681040_006
M3 - Bidrag til bog/antologi
SN - 9789004549746
T3 - Aries Book Series
SP - 83
EP - 104
BT - Esotericism and Deviance
A2 - Hedenborg White, Manon
A2 - Rudbøg, Tim
PB - Brill
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