The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800–2000
- Date of account
- 2014
- Location
- Berlin
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Kocku von Stuckrad’s study traces how religion, esotericism, science, and claims to knowledge were reformulated in European discourse from the nineteenth century onward. It offers a comparison framework for modern alchemical or occult transformation claims that adopt scientific vocabulary, experimental rhetoric, or ideas of hidden natural law. The lead concerns language, authority, and intellectual history, not verification of transmutation or spiritual powers. Its periodization and use of “scientification” are scholarly constructions that should be assessed alongside specialist reviews and cited historical sources.
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