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Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic StudiesVolume 1, Gnostic Countercultures, 2016&#160;Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies is a peer-reviewed publication devoted to the study of Gnostic religious currents from the ancient world to the modern, where ‘Gnostic’ is broadly conceived as a reference to special direct knowledge of the divine, which either transcends or transgresses conventional religious knowledge. It aims to publish academic papers on: the emergence of the Gnostic, in its many different historical and local cultural contexts; the Gnostic strands that persisted in the middle ages; and modern interpretations of Gnosticism – with the goal of establishing cross-cultural and trans-historical conversations, together with more localized historical analyses.The corpus of Gnostic materials includes (but is not restricted to) testimonies from outsiders as well as insider literature such as the Nag Hammadi collection, the Hermetica, Neoplatonic texts, the Pistis Sophia, the books of Jeu, the Berlin and Tchacos codices, Manichaean documents, Mandaean scriptures, and contemporary Gnostic fiction/film and ‘revealed’ literature. The journal will publish the best of traditional historical and comparative scholarship while also featuring newer approaches that have received less attention in the established literature, such as cognitive science, cognitive linguistics, social memory, psychology, ethnography, sociology, and literary theory.&#160;(Text by the organizers)&#160;Articles&#160;OtherIntroducing Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies - April D. DeConick and Lautaro Roig LanzillottaGnostic Countercultures: Special Issue - April D. DeConick and Lautaro Roig Lanzillota&#160;Research ArticleThe Countercultural Gnostic: Turning the World Upside Down and Inside Out - April D. DeConick“I Turned away from the Temple”: Sethian Counterculture in the Apocryphon of John - Grant AdamsonTransgressing Boundaries: Plotinus and the Gnostics - John D. TurnerForbidden Knowledge: Cognitive Transgression and “Ascent Above Intellect” in the Debate Between Plotinus and the Gnostics - Zeke MazurThe Apocalypse of Paul (NHC V,2): Cosmology, Anthropology, and Ethics - Lautaro Roig LanzillottaGnosis Undomesticated: Archon-Seduction, Demon Sex, and Sodomites in the Paraphrase of Shem (NHC VII,1) - Dylan M. BurnsGnostic Self-Deification: The Case of Simon of Samaria - M. David LitwaDemon est Deus Inversus: Honoring the Daemonic in Iamblichean Theurgy - Gregory ShawThe Coming of the Star-Child: The Reception of the Revelation of the Magi in New Age Religious Thought and Ufology - Brent LandauThe Great God Pan - Sarah Iles JohnstonAlan Moore’s Promethea: Countercultural Gnosis and the End of the World - Wouter J. HanegraaffChildren of the Light: Gnostic Fiction and Gnostic Practice in Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice Trilogy - Victoria NelsonSymbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of Gnosticism - Matthew J. DillonGnostic and Countercultural Elements in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Hoodoo in America” - Margarita Simon Guillory&#160;Book ReviewChristliches Ägypten in der spätantiken Zeit: Akten der 2. Tübinger Tagung zum Christlichen Orient (7.–8. Dezember 2007) , written by Dmitrij Bumazhnov - Aaltje HiddingThe Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Asceticism , written byDaniele Pevarello - Serge CazelaisScriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory , written by Joseph E. Sanzo - Blake A. JurgensConceptions of “Gospel” and Legitimacy in Early Christianity , written by James A. Kelhoffer - Sheldon SteenBeyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies Building on the Work of Elaine Pagels , written by Eduard Iricinschi, Lance Jenott, Nicola Denzey Lewis, and Philippa Townsend - Matthew Twigg&#160;OtherBooks Received for Review in Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic StudiesAuthor: Petru Moldovan