“Reason vs. Truth: How the Enlightenment and Romanticism Effected the Victorian Occult.” By: Jessica Brazinski Abstract: This research project is a historical analysis of occult secret societies and organizations during and soon after the reign of Queen Victoria. In particular, this research focuses on the impact of Romanticism and the Enlightenment on the Victorian occult. By examining the founding myths, practices, and core beliefs of these organizations this study found that Enlightenment, Romanticist, and Neoclassical ideas all played a part in the adoption of foreign ideas into these societies. The Freemasons, for instance, were very much influenced by Enlightenment ideas. Similarly, Theosophy included both ideas from Romanticism ideas...
This thesis explores the relationship between orthodox Christianity, quasi-religious movements, pseu...
Material Culture in the Victorian Occult. Key words: Occult, Victorian, Material culture, Objects, S...
The real explosion of the occult observed in Russia between the end of the Empire and the beginning ...
During the long nineteenth century, the technological and social developments witnessed in Europe an...
This thesis seeks to examine the relationship between occult religion and the global circulation of ...
Historians of eighteenth-century thought have implied a clear distinction between mystical or occult...
First paragraph: The occult sciences were woven into the fabric of everyday life in nineteenth-centu...
Victorians critics have deemed the nineteenth century in England “a crisis of faith.” In the face of...
Victorians critics have deemed the nineteenth century in England “a crisis of faith.” In the face of...
Victorians critics have deemed the nineteenth century in England “a crisis of faith.” In the face of...
First paragraph: The occult sciences were woven into the fabric of everyday life in nineteenth-centu...
This thesis explores the relationship between orthodox Christianity, quasi-religious movements, pseu...
The late-Victorian period was characterised by rapid social, cultural, and intellectual changes, wit...
Presented at the International Conference on Sacred Music East and West: Enlightenment & Illumin...
Modern readings of Emerson since the1980s have presented Emerson as a de-transcendentalist, a prophe...
This thesis explores the relationship between orthodox Christianity, quasi-religious movements, pseu...
Material Culture in the Victorian Occult. Key words: Occult, Victorian, Material culture, Objects, S...
The real explosion of the occult observed in Russia between the end of the Empire and the beginning ...
During the long nineteenth century, the technological and social developments witnessed in Europe an...
This thesis seeks to examine the relationship between occult religion and the global circulation of ...
Historians of eighteenth-century thought have implied a clear distinction between mystical or occult...
First paragraph: The occult sciences were woven into the fabric of everyday life in nineteenth-centu...
Victorians critics have deemed the nineteenth century in England “a crisis of faith.” In the face of...
Victorians critics have deemed the nineteenth century in England “a crisis of faith.” In the face of...
Victorians critics have deemed the nineteenth century in England “a crisis of faith.” In the face of...
First paragraph: The occult sciences were woven into the fabric of everyday life in nineteenth-centu...
This thesis explores the relationship between orthodox Christianity, quasi-religious movements, pseu...
The late-Victorian period was characterised by rapid social, cultural, and intellectual changes, wit...
Presented at the International Conference on Sacred Music East and West: Enlightenment & Illumin...
Modern readings of Emerson since the1980s have presented Emerson as a de-transcendentalist, a prophe...
This thesis explores the relationship between orthodox Christianity, quasi-religious movements, pseu...
Material Culture in the Victorian Occult. Key words: Occult, Victorian, Material culture, Objects, S...
The real explosion of the occult observed in Russia between the end of the Empire and the beginning ...