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The Globalization of Esotericism [PDF]
Correspondences, 2015 In recent discussions about the study of esotericism, the adjective “Western” has come under critical scrutiny. Shouldn’t “esotericism” be understood as a global rather than just a Western eld of research?
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
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Ethnographies of the Esoteric: Introducing Anthropological Methods and Theories to the Study of Contemporary Esotericism [PDF]
Correspondences, 2018 In this article, we introduce the ContERN special issue on ethnographies of the esoteric. While the study of esotericism has been dominated by historical-philological scholarship, recent years have seen an increase in anthropological approaches to ...
Susannah Crockford, Egil Asprem
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Rejected Knowledge Reconsidered : Some Methodological Notes on Esotericism and Marginality
, 2021 The notion that esotericism is a form of rejected knowledge has come back in style. The association of esotericism with heterodoxy, opposition, and marginalization has, however, been a standard trope since the nineteenth century.
Asprem, Egil,, Asprem, Egil
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What Cognitive Science Offers the Study of Esotericism [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction to these issues on 'Esotericism and the Cognitive Science of Religion'Religious ...
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Beyond Belief: Literature, Esotericism Studies, and the Challenges of Biographical Reading in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Land of Mist [PDF]
, 2022 Over the last decade, esotericism studies has witnessed a distinct literary turn, as more and more of the field’s primarily religious studies-based researchers have recognized the value, and indeed, centrality, of imaginative literature to the ...
Ferguson, Christine
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An anthropology of esotericism [PDF]
, 1976 This thesis attempts to establish a means for investigating the social forms of a type of cross-cultural religious phenomenon to which we refer as esotericism.
Quayle, Brendan
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The art of mystification: esotericism differentiated in the definition of Finnish symbolism
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 This article focuses on Sarajas-Korte’s definitions that proved to be so significant to Finnish art history. In spite of the fact that her research still represents the most extensive and profound work on Finnish Symbolism, the aim here is to question ...
Nina Kokkinen
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New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism [PDF]
, 2020 This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly “Western” undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ritual traditions that go back ...
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Ainigma : Plato’s esotericism in context [PDF]
, 2022 Thesis (PhD (Philosophy))--University of Pretoria, 2022.Based primarily on Aristotle’s testimony of the existence of ‘unwritten doctrines’ of Plato, alongside Plato’s comments on the issue in the Seventh Epistle and the critique of writing in the ...
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 Often, when people nowadays talk of ‘esotericism’, they are using this word either as more or less synonymous with ‘New Age’, or as a term for movements that are based on a secret wisdom that is only accessible to an ‘inner circle’ of initiates.
Kocku von Stuckrad
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