Damanhur
An Esoteric Community Open to the World
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Introduction
The chapter offers a general introduction to the book. The first section briefly illustrates the chapters that make up the two parts of the book: the first part is devoted to the history and organisation of th...
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A Bridge Between Inside and Outside: The Economy
Economy has accompanied the organisational and social transformations of Damanhur and has favoured opening and interchange between Community and the surrounding territory. The chapter aims to reconstruct the e...
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Conclusion
This short chapter critically evaluates the invention-of-tradition and syncretism concepts on the basis of ethnographic research findings gathered in the book. Taken together, these findings point to religion ...
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Changing the Sacred: Creative Paths of Religious Experience
This chapter focuses on the creativity—sacred binomial. A review of reflections on the creativity concept testifies to its original religious root—from Greek myths and philosophy to Romantic ideas of how imagi...
