New Antiquities

COLLECTIONS:
Ancient Worlds
Complete Collection
New Religious Movements, Contemporary Paganism & Western Esotericism

Selected Chapters​:​​
​Christianity
South & East Asia

Just as we speak of “dead” languages, we say that religions “die out.” Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. New Antiquities addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of the ancient world as they attempt to legitimize developments in contemporary religious culture and associated activity.

Drawing from the disciplines of religious studies, archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, New Antiquities explores a diversity of cultic and geographic milieus, As a survey of the reception of ancient religious works, figures, and ideas in later twentieth-century and contemporary alternative religious practice, this book will interest classicists, Egyptologists, and historians of religion of many stripes, particularly those focused on modern Theosophy, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Religious Movements, Magick, and Occulture.