Philip C Almond
Biographic Data
| ID | 343544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip C Almond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip C |
| FAMILY NAME | Almond |
| SIGNATURE | ALMOND P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3172-1981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Buddha: Life and Afterlife Between East and West
Alongside Jesus and Muhammad, the Buddha is the most significant figure in the history of religion. Philip Almond's engaging new book is the first to combine a history of early traditions about Siddhartha Gautama's life with an authoritative account of how he and the tantalizing philosophy inspired by him came to the attention of the West. It takes the reader on a remarkable journey encompassing (among other topics) Alexander the Great, the court…
Buddha: Life and Afterlife Between East and West
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History
Mary Magdalene is a key figure in the history of Christianity. After Mary, the mother of Jesus, she remains the most important female saint in her guise both as primary witness to the resurrection and 'apostle of the apostles'. This volume, the first major work on the Magdalene in more than thirty years, focuses on her 'lives' as these have been imagined and reimagined within Christian tradition. Philip Almond expertly disentangles the numerous n…
Mary Magdalene: A Cultural Biography
The Antichrist: A New Biography
"The malevolent figure of the Antichrist endures in modern culture, whether religious or secular; and the spectral shadow he has cast over the ages continues to exert a strong and powerful fascination. Philip C. Almond tells the story of the son of Satan from his early beginnings to the present day, and explores this false Messiah in theology, literature and the history of ideas. Discussing the origins of the malevolent being who at different tim…
Antichrist: A New Biography
"The malevolent figure of the Antichrist endures in modern culture, whether religious or secular; and the spectral shadow he has cast over the ages continues to exert a strong and powerful fascination. Philip C. Almond tells the story of the son of Satan from his early beginnings to the present day, and explores this false Messiah in theology, literature and the history of ideas. Discussing the origins of the malevolent being who at different tim…
Afterlife: A History of Life After Death
“The Syrian state's rhetoric of Arab nationalism left little room for the official recognition of minority identities in pre-war Syria. Yet in practice, the state continually engaged with the Druze and other minorities to reinforce its legitimacy, often through cultural policy. Uncovering this neglected aspect of pre-war Syrian politics, Kastrinou explores the cultural politics of marriage in Syria, primarily among the Druze, to reveal how practi…
The Devil: A New Biography
In The Devil, Philip C. Almond explores the figure of evil incarnate from the first centuries of the Christian era. Along the way, he describes the rise of demonology as an intellectual and theological pursuit, the persecution as witches of women believed to consort with the Devil and his minions, and the decline in the belief in Hell and in angels and demons as corporeal beings as a result of the Enlightenment. Almond shows that the Prince of Da…
England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot & ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’
'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are, published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584. England's first major work of demonology, witchcraft and the occult, the book was unashamedly sceptical. It is said that so outraged was King James VI of Scotland by the disbelieving …
Rudolf Otto: An Introduction to His Philosophical Theology
John Mason and his Religion: An Enthusiastic Millenarian in late Seventeenth-Century England
Almond examines the religion of John Mason, late seventeenth-century Anglican minister, millenarian and visionary. He argues that John Mason's millenarian religion demonstrates the mingling of high scholarly traditions of apocalypticism-those of Joseph Mede and Johann Heinrich Alsted especially-with plebeian modes of millenarian enthusiasm. John Mason exemplifies at the end of the seventeenth century what Nicholas McDowell has discerned in its mi…
John Napier and the mathematics of the ‘middle future’ apocalypse
This article explores the notion of ‘middle future’ apocalypticism through the work of the late sixteenth-century Scottish theologian and the discoverer of logarithms, John Napier. Middle future apocalypticism envisaged the end of the world, not in the immediate or far distant future but (rather like modern environmental apocalypticism) within the next 100–200 years. It enabled the understanding of the present in apocalyptic terms, and set out th…
Adam, Pre‐Adamites, and Extra‐Terrestrial Beings in Early Modern Europe
This article examines the question of the existence of non‐Adamic persons — both terrestrial and extra‐terrestrial — in early modern Europe. More particularly it looks at how the existence of non‐Adamites seriously called into question the credibility of the central themes of the Christian story of the creation, fall and redemption in Jesus Christ in early modern Europe. It analyses the impact on the Christian view of history caused by the discov…
Western Images of Islam, 1700–1900
This paper traces fluctuating attitudes to Islam and its Prophet, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth. Western perceptions, as revealed by writers of the period, encyclopaedias, biographies and commentaries, were sometimes sympathetic, sometimes dismissive; sometimes celebrating Islam's piousness; sometimes accusing it of fraud. Sometimes Islam is seen as benign; sometimes its violence is seen as endemic. Often the cultural biases of we…
Druids, Patriarchs, and the Primordial Religion
In the light of the contemporary resurgence of Druidism, this article explores the heyday of the invention of Druidism in the West during the Romantic period. It demonstrates the way in which the construction of Druidism, as the heir of the Patriarchal tradition of the Old Testament and of Primordial religion, played a significant role in the construction of British self-identity from 1750-1850, in contrast to the marginal role which neo-Druidism…
The Gender Impact Of Recent European Trends In Wage Determination
The proposal to introduce a national minimum wage in Britain has drawn attention to the importance of general systems of wage determination and wage protection for gender equity. Two-thirds of the likely beneficiaries of a national minimum wage are likely to be women and the U.K. government has even identified its minimum wage policy as one of its major measures to promote gender equality. Such awareness of the relationship between wage systems a…
The Heathen in his Blindness
This article argues that Balagangadhara has reinforced for the secular study of religion the awareness that the origins of the discipline are indelibly Western, and provided an invaluable service in reminding scholars they should be wary in assuming that the having of a religion or a world-view is a cultural universal. But, in contrast to Balagangadhara, the author claims this is not the consequence of imposing on other traditions the Western Chr…
Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England
This book examines life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. It explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century images of the journey of body and soul, from Platonist accounts of pre-existence, the final judgement and beyond into heaven or hell. It discloses a society in which frail and fleeting human life was lived out in the expectation of salvation or damnation, of eternal happiness or eternal…
Henry More and the Apocalypse
In recent years there has been a burgeoning of interest in the role of apocalyptic and millenarian thought in England from the time ofthe end ofthe Puritan revolution to the middle of the eighteenth century. There has been a clearer recognition that not only with Isaac Newton himself but also with the heirs of Newtonianism apocalyptic issues were often at the forefront of their concerns.1 This focus on post-Restoration apocalypticism, allied to a…
The contours of hell in English thought, 1660-1750
This article examines the nature, extent and location of post-mortem punishments in late 17th- and early 18th-century England. It is particularly concerned to illuminate the discontinuity between that world and ours by showing the way in which the contours of hell reflected and embodied images of the nature of personal identity, of human personality and the role of the individual in society
The British Discovery of Buddhism
The journey of the soul in seventeenth-century English Platonism
The British Discovery of Buddhism
This book examines the British discovery of Buddhism during the Victorian period. It was only during the nineteenth century that Buddhism became, in the western mind, a religious tradition separate from Hinduism. As a result, Buddha emerged from a realm of myth and was addressed as a historical figure. Almond's exploration of British interpretations of Buddhism - of its founder, its doctrines, its ethics, its social practices, its truth and value…
The Buddha of Christendom: A Review of The Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat
Through the Manichaeans, the Islamic world, and the Christian East, the story of the Buddha became known to the Christian West. If the teachings of the Buddha reached the West in an attenuated form, his life and the ascetic ideal which it symbolized were a positive force in the spiritual life of Christendom. It is one of the vicissitudes of history for which Christianity and Buddhism can both feel grateful. For the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat …
Buddhism in the West: 300Bc–ad400
The Gender Impact Of Recent European Trends In Wage Determination
The proposal to introduce a national minimum wage in Britain has drawn attention to the importance of general systems of wage determination and wage protection for gender equity. Two-thirds of the likely beneficiaries of a national minimum wage are likely to be women and the U.K. government has even identified its minimum wage policy as one of its major measures to promote gender equality. Such awareness of the relationship between wage systems a…
Druids, Patriarchs, and the Primordial Religion
In the light of the contemporary resurgence of Druidism, this article explores the heyday of the invention of Druidism in the West during the Romantic period. It demonstrates the way in which the construction of Druidism, as the heir of the Patriarchal tradition of the Old Testament and of Primordial religion, played a significant role in the construction of British self-identity from 1750-1850, in contrast to the marginal role which neo-Druidism…
The journey of the soul in seventeenth-century English Platonism
Adam, Pre‐Adamites, and Extra‐Terrestrial Beings in Early Modern Europe
This article examines the question of the existence of non‐Adamic persons — both terrestrial and extra‐terrestrial — in early modern Europe. More particularly it looks at how the existence of non‐Adamites seriously called into question the credibility of the central themes of the Christian story of the creation, fall and redemption in Jesus Christ in early modern Europe. It analyses the impact on the Christian view of history caused by the discov…
Henry More and the Apocalypse
In recent years there has been a burgeoning of interest in the role of apocalyptic and millenarian thought in England from the time ofthe end ofthe Puritan revolution to the middle of the eighteenth century. There has been a clearer recognition that not only with Isaac Newton himself but also with the heirs of Newtonianism apocalyptic issues were often at the forefront of their concerns.1 This focus on post-Restoration apocalypticism, allied to a…
The Buddha in the west: From myth to history
INTRODUCTION Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century, especially in Victorian England, the Buddha met with almost universal acclaim . Esteem for the founder of Buddhism is discernible not only among those who, like Edwin Arnold and Richard Phillips, sympathised with his teachings, but also among those who had little appreciation of them . Jules Barthelemy St . Hilaire, although the doyen of its critics, nevertheless felt compelled to…
Winch and Wittgenstein
In this paper, I shall be concerned to show: (1) that Winch believes that there can be different conceptions of ‘agreement with reality’; (2) that Wittgenstein agrees with this, but emphasizes the difficulty of understanding such conceptions; (3) that Winch realizes this difficulty, and yet still tries to gain understanding of primitive social institutions in terms of their sense of the significance of human life, in terms of the limiting notions…
Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine: An Investigation of the Study of Mysticism in World Religions
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series …
Wilfred Cantwell Smith as Theologian of Religions
Much has been written about Wilfred Cantwell Smith's account of the nature of religion, particularly by those who, broadly speaking, may be called Religionswissenschaftler . Surprisingly little, though, has been written about his theology. In part at least, this can be attributed to the incipience of his theological thought within the broad parameters of his studies of religion. Theological ideas have been more imbedded in the wealth of materials…
Rudolf Otto: Life and Work
Buddhism and Christianity: Compared and Contrasted
In October, 1911, Rudolf Otto began a journey that was to last until the end of July, 1912. In India, he came into contact with Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Parsees, and he was impressed by the Buddhist traditions of Burma and Thailand. But it was Japanese Buddhism that he found particularly attractive. In fact, he was the first modern German scholar of the study of religion to engage in dialogue with Buddhist teachers and scholars, and to practic…
The Buddha in the west: From myth to history
INTRODUCTION Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century, especially in Victorian England, the Buddha met with almost universal acclaim . Esteem for the founder of Buddhism is discernible not only among those who, like Edwin Arnold and Richard Phillips, sympathised with his teachings, but also among those who had little appreciation of them . Jules Barthelemy St . Hilaire, although the doyen of its critics, nevertheless felt compelled to…
Rudolf Otto: An Introduction to His Philosophical Theology
The Buddha of Christendom: A Review of The Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat
Through the Manichaeans, the Islamic world, and the Christian East, the story of the Buddha became known to the Christian West. If the teachings of the Buddha reached the West in an attenuated form, his life and the ascetic ideal which it symbolized were a positive force in the spiritual life of Christendom. It is one of the vicissitudes of history for which Christianity and Buddhism can both feel grateful. For the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat …
Buddhism in the West: 300Bc–ad400
The British Discovery of Buddhism
This book examines the British discovery of Buddhism during the Victorian period. It was only during the nineteenth century that Buddhism became, in the western mind, a religious tradition separate from Hinduism. As a result, Buddha emerged from a realm of myth and was addressed as a historical figure. Almond's exploration of British interpretations of Buddhism - of its founder, its doctrines, its ethics, its social practices, its truth and value…
The British Discovery of Buddhism
The journey of the soul in seventeenth-century English Platonism
The contours of hell in English thought, 1660-1750
This article examines the nature, extent and location of post-mortem punishments in late 17th- and early 18th-century England. It is particularly concerned to illuminate the discontinuity between that world and ours by showing the way in which the contours of hell reflected and embodied images of the nature of personal identity, of human personality and the role of the individual in society
Henry More and the Apocalypse
In recent years there has been a burgeoning of interest in the role of apocalyptic and millenarian thought in England from the time ofthe end ofthe Puritan revolution to the middle of the eighteenth century. There has been a clearer recognition that not only with Isaac Newton himself but also with the heirs of Newtonianism apocalyptic issues were often at the forefront of their concerns.1 This focus on post-Restoration apocalypticism, allied to a…
Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England
This book examines life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. It explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century images of the journey of body and soul, from Platonist accounts of pre-existence, the final judgement and beyond into heaven or hell. It discloses a society in which frail and fleeting human life was lived out in the expectation of salvation or damnation, of eternal happiness or eternal…
The Heathen in his Blindness
This article argues that Balagangadhara has reinforced for the secular study of religion the awareness that the origins of the discipline are indelibly Western, and provided an invaluable service in reminding scholars they should be wary in assuming that the having of a religion or a world-view is a cultural universal. But, in contrast to Balagangadhara, the author claims this is not the consequence of imposing on other traditions the Western Chr…
The Gender Impact Of Recent European Trends In Wage Determination
The proposal to introduce a national minimum wage in Britain has drawn attention to the importance of general systems of wage determination and wage protection for gender equity. Two-thirds of the likely beneficiaries of a national minimum wage are likely to be women and the U.K. government has even identified its minimum wage policy as one of its major measures to promote gender equality. Such awareness of the relationship between wage systems a…
Druids, Patriarchs, and the Primordial Religion
In the light of the contemporary resurgence of Druidism, this article explores the heyday of the invention of Druidism in the West during the Romantic period. It demonstrates the way in which the construction of Druidism, as the heir of the Patriarchal tradition of the Old Testament and of Primordial religion, played a significant role in the construction of British self-identity from 1750-1850, in contrast to the marginal role which neo-Druidism…
Western Images of Islam, 1700–1900
This paper traces fluctuating attitudes to Islam and its Prophet, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth. Western perceptions, as revealed by writers of the period, encyclopaedias, biographies and commentaries, were sometimes sympathetic, sometimes dismissive; sometimes celebrating Islam's piousness; sometimes accusing it of fraud. Sometimes Islam is seen as benign; sometimes its violence is seen as endemic. Often the cultural biases of we…
Adam, Pre‐Adamites, and Extra‐Terrestrial Beings in Early Modern Europe
This article examines the question of the existence of non‐Adamic persons — both terrestrial and extra‐terrestrial — in early modern Europe. More particularly it looks at how the existence of non‐Adamites seriously called into question the credibility of the central themes of the Christian story of the creation, fall and redemption in Jesus Christ in early modern Europe. It analyses the impact on the Christian view of history caused by the discov…
John Mason and his Religion: An Enthusiastic Millenarian in late Seventeenth-Century England
Almond examines the religion of John Mason, late seventeenth-century Anglican minister, millenarian and visionary. He argues that John Mason's millenarian religion demonstrates the mingling of high scholarly traditions of apocalypticism-those of Joseph Mede and Johann Heinrich Alsted especially-with plebeian modes of millenarian enthusiasm. John Mason exemplifies at the end of the seventeenth century what Nicholas McDowell has discerned in its mi…
John Napier and the mathematics of the ‘middle future’ apocalypse
This article explores the notion of ‘middle future’ apocalypticism through the work of the late sixteenth-century Scottish theologian and the discoverer of logarithms, John Napier. Middle future apocalypticism envisaged the end of the world, not in the immediate or far distant future but (rather like modern environmental apocalypticism) within the next 100–200 years. It enabled the understanding of the present in apocalyptic terms, and set out th…
England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot & ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’
'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are, published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584. England's first major work of demonology, witchcraft and the occult, the book was unashamedly sceptical. It is said that so outraged was King James VI of Scotland by the disbelieving …
Rudolf Otto: An Introduction to His Philosophical Theology
The Devil: A New Biography
In The Devil, Philip C. Almond explores the figure of evil incarnate from the first centuries of the Christian era. Along the way, he describes the rise of demonology as an intellectual and theological pursuit, the persecution as witches of women believed to consort with the Devil and his minions, and the decline in the belief in Hell and in angels and demons as corporeal beings as a result of the Enlightenment. Almond shows that the Prince of Da…
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