This looks like an excellent read. Will it be available on Amazon?
Regards,
Morgan Leigh
PhD Candidate
School of Sociology and Social Work
University of Tasmania
On 31/08/2012 12:42 AM, Nicholas Campion wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I hope this will make a major contribution to our understanding of the
> recent history of magic.
>
> Nick Campion
> University of Wales Trinity Saint David
>
> SOPHIA CENTRE PRESS
>
> SPECIAL ADVANCE OFFER
>
> Liz Greene: Magi and Maggidim: The Kabbalah in British Occultism 1860-1940.
> Studies in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology Vol. 3, Lampeter: Sophia Centre
> Press, 2012. £48.00, Paperback, 558 pp. ISBN 978-1-907767-02-9
> http://www.sophiacentrepress.com/publications.html
>
> Liz Greene’s major historical study of the Kabbalah in recent British
> occultism is published by the Sophia Centre Press on 4 September 2012.
>
> Using primary sources Greene challenges the notion that western occult
> Kabbalah is a reinvention of ancient sources, and argues that Jewish
> scholars had a direct input into the modern British ‘occult revival’.
> For a full description and contents please see
> http://www.sophiacentrepress.com/publications/MagiAndMaggidim/magiAndMaggidi
> m.html
>
> The price will be £48.
> To order before 21 September:
> UK and Europe £35.00
> Rest of World £40.00
> Please order here:
> http://www.sophiacentrepress.com/publications/MagiAndMaggidim/offer.html
>
> Praise for Magi and Maggidim: The Kabbalah in British Occultism 1860-1940.
> A fascinating and erudite exploration of the development of modern Kabbalah.
> Liz Greene’s knowledge of the subject is wide and deep, and this book is
> masterful in its nuanced unpicking and re-weaving of the history of an
> occult tradition often marred by poor research and generalisations.
> Professor Owen Davies, University of Hertfordshire
>
> LIZ GREENE is a tutor for the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology in the
> School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology at the University of Wales
> Trinity Saint David, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of
> History at the University of Bristol.
>
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