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Author:   Timothy Grieve-Carlson (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Westminster College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Weight:   1.300kg
ISBN:  

9780197765562

ISBN 10:   0197765564
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   24 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: ""Strange Things Happening Every Day"" Chapter One: ""No Wisdom in Nature"": Esotericism, Enthusiasm, and Ecology in Early Modern Europe Vita I: ""Strange things of the Invisible worlds"": Kelpius in Europe, 1667-1693 Chapter Two: ""Gone into the Ancient Forest"": Hermetic Protestantism and Environmental Knowledge in Early Pennsylvania Vita II: ""I cannot pass beyond to my homeland"": Kelpius in Rotterdam, London, and the Atlantic, 1693-1694 Chapter Three: ""The Woman in the Wilderness"": Kelpius and Company on the Ridge of the Wissahickon, 1694-1707 Chapter Four: The Threefold Wilderness State: Ascetic Alchemy and the Technology of Self-Negation Vita III: ""Delay not longer the blessed day"": Kelpius in Germantown, 1694-1703-4-5-6-7 Chapter Five: The Long Shadow of the Enlightenment: Memories of Kelpius in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland (1798) Chapter Six: ""Weird as a Wizard"": History and Literature in the Emergence of the American Kelpius Legend Conclusion: An Unmute Gospel"

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Timothy Grieve-Carlson is Assistant Professor of Religion at Westminster College.

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