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Deconstructing ‘Western esotericism’: on Wouter Hanegraaff'sEsotericism and the Academy

Religion, 2013
This paper discusses a number of consequences that – although not always intended by the author – can be drawn from the radically historicist approach adopted by Wouter J. Hanegraaff in his monograph Esotericism and the Academy. These consequences are the atomization of ‘esotericism’ into a disparate range of ideas, practices, and currents with few if ...
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Introduction. Western Esotericism And Polemics

2007
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in this volume on religious polemics. The volume deals with a specific subset of such responses, as they have taken place within the religiously plural European milieu: polemics involving discourses and practices associated with western esotericism.
Hammer, Olav, von Stuckrad, Kocku
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On the Practice of Esotericism

Journal of the History of Ideas, 1992
Esotericism, formerly called esoterism, is a complex phenomenon which does not permit any simple or uniform explanation. The practice of esotericism or the detection of esoteric doctrines has a lengthy history involving occultists, alchemists, kabbalists, numerologists, poets, mystics, and astrologers. In almost every case the contention that a book or
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Esotericism and Egalitarianism

Political Theory, 2016
According to Leo Strauss, one of the primary purposes of the esotericism practiced by philosophers is the defense against persecution. This defense entails communicating the truth only to philosophers and concealing it from non-philosophers. For many commentators, this conception of esotericism has inegalitarian implications—for example, that the ...
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White Esotericisms? New Directions in the Study of Race and Esotericism

2023
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Esotericism

2005
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Operation of Esotericism

2005
How do esoteric practices operate? When something is transmitted secretly, how does the transmission function? This chapter focuses on Heiho Kadensho [Family transmission book on swordsmanship1] written in 1632 by Yagyu Munenori (1571–1646). (To be precise, the colophon of this monograph refers not only to Munenori but also to his father Muneyoshi and ...
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Nazi Esotericism

2023
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Music and Esotericism

2010
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The problems of rejected knowledge: thoughts on Wouter Hanegraaff'sEsotericism and the Academy

Religion, 2013
Marco Pasi
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