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Cover -- Title -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Prologue: Religion terminable and interminable -- Part I. Intellectual traditions -- 1. A Victorian Intellectual and His Religious World: Arthur James Balfour -- 2. Sacrifice Accomplished: Robert Hertz -- 3. Myth into Novel: The Late Freud on Early Religion -- 4. Presence, not Gnosis: Martin Buber as a Historian of Religion -- 5. La tentation du christianisme: Henri Bergson, Simone Weil, et Emmanuel Levinas -- 6. Difficult Wisdom: Buber and Levinas on Hebrew Humanism -- Part II. Scholarly approaches -- 7. A Secret Gospel of Mark: Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem -- 8. Ancient Myths and Modern Demons: Georges Dumézil -- 9. History and Religion: Arnaldo Momigliano -- 10. From the Big Bang to a Secular Age: Robert Bellah and American Approaches to Religion -- 11. Comparer à travers champs? Marcel Detienne, polythéismes, et monothéismes -- 12. The Hidden Face of History: Carlo Ginzburg on Religion -- Part III. Contemporary problems -- 13. Open Society and Closed Religion -- 14. History of Religions: Old Problems, New Challenges -- 15. The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls -- Epilogue: Parcours d'un flâneur -- Envoi: The Duty of Subversion -- List of First Publications -- Index of Selected Topics and Names.

This book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity