Except for a few studies that explore the intersections between esoteric ideas/practices and
white supremacy, race has largely been ignored in the field of Western esotericism. This …

Hardly anyone would doubt that history is full of charlatans. However, the situation becomes
much trickier when dichotomies like “real” vs.“fake,”“genuine” vs.“fraudulent,” or “authentic” …

The historical semantics of “esoteric/esotericism” and the related “occult/occultism” are
treated. Then two basic scientific approaches are introduced: the comparative and the …

ThecaseIwishtomakeinthisessayissimple: racemattersinandforthestudy of esoteric ideas and
practice. And how could it not? Esotericisms do not develop in a vacuum, but in particular …

The academic study of esotericism is currently undergoing a phase of expansion and
diversification. This is true whether we look at the topics, geographical regions, and subject …

Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands
of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the …

The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand
scheme of Theosophical evolution. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the …

Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Untersuchung des Werks von Georges I. Gurdjieff, mit
besonderem Schwerpunkt auf dem Sufismus und dessen Stellung in seiner Lehre. Gurdjieff …

The term “esotericism” has been used by practitioners since the late 18th century to describe
non-hegemonic ideas and practices. The ideas behind this term were mainly Christian ideas …

This article makes use of the author's field research as well as primary and secondary
textual sources to examine Islamic esoteric content, as mediated by local forms of Bengali …