This chapter holds that the demarcation “Western” is a significant shortcoming of the study of
esotericism. While it has helped to draw the contours of an emerging field in its earlier …

The notion that esotericism is a form of rejected knowledge has come back in style since the
publication of Wouter J. Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy in 2012. The association …

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 …

Tentatively, but finally, race has emerged as a category of analysis in the academic field of
esotericism. 1 The catalyst was, without a doubt, Esotericism in African American Religious …

The essays in Esotericism in African American Religious Experience:“There is a
Mystery”…(Finley, Guillory and Page, 2015) inscribe the broad contours for trans …

This article moves past discussing definitions of esotericism to clarifying the nature of
definition itself. After reviewing different approaches to definition, we argue that rigid …

We opened this volume by observing that esotericism scholars' scope is undergoing a
phase of geographical, cultural, and demographic expansion. With thesedevelopmentscomestheneedfortheore …

This article discusses the British occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) as an advertiser of
the occult. Relying on theories of advertising and branding, it is argued that Crowley's main …

2 ASPREM AND STRUBE pointed to the field's lacking engagement with theoretical debates
about some of its very key concepts, such as secrecy, knowledge, identity, polemics, and the …

128 ASPREM outside of academia in the 1960s (cf. Hanegraaff, 2001). ¹ James Webb's
influential characterization of nineteenth-and twentieth-century occultism as an …