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Book Review : A science for the soul: occultism and the genesis of the German Modern
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“Western Esotericism” as a Sort of Eurocentrism
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Textbooks and introductions to Western Esotericism
Religion, 2013This article reviews the presently available supply of textbooks and introductions to the new academic field of study known as ‘Western esotericism’. By analogy with computer software, the author refers to the early ‘religionist’ phase of research in this domain as ‘Western esotericism 1.0’.
Wouter J Hanegraaff
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Western esotericism: Towards an integrative model of interpretation
Religion, 2005Abstract Despite the fact that during the last fifteen years we have witnessed the emergence of a research field of ‘Western esotericism’, scholars are still far from agreeing on definitions of ‘esotericism’. For an academic ‘field’, however, that wants to establish international networks and to bring together scholars from various research areas and
Kocku von Stuckrad
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Seer Stones and Western Esotericism
2020Chapter One contextualizes Joseph Smith's use of a "seer stone" to compose the Book of Mormon within contemporary folk magic practices, the philosophies of Western esotericism, and Christian occultism. The seer stone (sometimes described as a "Urim and Thummim") represented one of several folk magic practices that the Smith family pursued, most notably
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Introduction. Western Esotericism And Polemics
2007This 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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Freemasonry and Western Esotericism
2014This chapter discusses the complex relationship between Freemasonry and Western esotericism by approaching the issue from two perspectives. First, by analysing a central esoteric discourse in the specific context of Freemasonry, namely the use of secrecy in Freemasonry and its relation to the concept of initiation and claims to absolute knowledge ...
Henrik Bogdan, Henrik Bogdan
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Western Esotericism and the Science of Religions
Numen, 1995AbstractThe term “esotericism” refers here to the modern esoteric currents in the West (15th to 20th centuries), i.e. to a diverse group of works, authors, trends, which possess an “air de famille” and which must be studied as a part of the history of religions because of the specific form it has acquired in the West from the Renaissance on. This field
Karen-Claire Voss, Antoine Faivre
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