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The Traumatic Mysticism of Othered Others: Blackness, Islam, and Esotericism in the Five Percenters

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2019
This article draws from black critical theory, Western esotericism studies, and scholarship in Islamic studies to articulate the Five Percenters as expressing what I call “traumatic mysticism.” I first articulate blackness as the esoteric secret of the ...
Biko Gray
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Esotericism Disputed

open access: yes, 2016
When graduate students enroll in classes that are devoted to “esotericism” or “Western esotericism,” they usually are fascinated by the class topics, even though they have only a vague idea of what esotericism means. They are curious to learn more about magic, alchemy, astrology, paganism, witchcraft, or shamanism.
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Leonora Carrington, Surrealism, and Initiation: Symbolic Death and Rebirth in Little Francis and Down Below

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2014
In 1940, the surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was incarcerated in a Spanish mental asylum, having been pronounced “incurably insane.” Down Below, an account of the incident first published in the surrealist journal VVV in 1944,
Kristoffer Noheden
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