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Post-secular esotericism? Some reflections on the transformation of esotericism
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 In the last fifteen years the study of Western esotericism has become an academic discipline in its own right. The vast majority of research conducted within the field is focused on older, historical developments, with recent expressions of esotericism ...
Kennet Granholm
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Studies in Mysticism and Mystical Experience in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia [PDF]
, 2015 The paper highlights the key perspectives on mysticism typical for Soviet and Post-Soviet religious studies. Recognizing the vagueness of the ”mystical’, Soviet scholars interpreted it as a belief in ”communication’ with ”supernatural powers ...
Malevich, Tatiana
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Western Esotericism in Scandinavia [PDF]
, 2016 This is the first encyclopaedic work on Western esotericism in Scandinavia. Structured along the lines of the Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericsm (2005), it contains over 80 articles written by 47 specialists. It consists of critical overviews of all the major esoteric currents in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, ranging from Alchemy ...
Henrik Bogdan, Olav Hammer
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Western Esotericism in Brazil [PDF]
Nova Religio, 2020 The Brazilian religion known as the Valley of the Dawn is an international new religious movement known for its eclectic cosmology and collective rituals performed by adepts dressed in ornate garments. Headquartered outside of Brasília, the Valley of the Dawn was founded in the 1960s by Neiva Chaves Zelaya (1925–85) a clairvoyant medium affectionately ...
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Occult Influences on Luigi Capuana and Luigi Pirandello
Књижевна историја, 2021 Luigi Capuana (1839–1915) and Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) were two of the most important Italian writers who lived between the XIX and XX century.
Mauro Ruggiero
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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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Book Review: Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-Knowledge [PDF]
, 2005 A review of Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-Knowledge by Don Handelman and David ...
Amaladass, Anand
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Research on esotericism in Scandinavia
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 The title of this paper can be understood in two senses. In the sense of ‘research on esotericism carried out by Scandinavian scholars’, the field is blossoming.
Henrik Bogdan, Olav Hammer
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Esotericism throughout the centuries
Approaching Religion, 2018 Review of Wouter J. Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (Cambridge University, 2012).
Tommy Ramstedt
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Western Esotericism: A Cosmopolitan History and Historiography
Migrating Minds, 2023 From the 1950s onwards, the opening of the research field of the History of Religions to esoteric beliefs and practices worldwide was made possible by cosmopolitan, agnostic, and interdisciplinary positions that eventually responded to the constitutive ...
Schiavetta, Bernardo
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