New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism /

New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism /

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 to Mediterranean antiquity, this boo...

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Other Authors: Asprem, Egil (Editor), Strube, Julian (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ; 17.

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Table of Contents:
  • Content
  • List of Schematics
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Esotericism's Expanding Horizon: Why This Book Came to Be Egil Asprem and Julian Strube
  • Receptions of Revelations: A Future for the Study of Esotericism and Antiquity Dylan Burns
  • Towards the Study of Esotericism without the "Western": Esotericism from the Perspective of a Global Religious History Julian Strube
  • "That I Did Love the Moor to Live with Him": Islam in/and the Study of "Western Esotericism" Liana Saif
  • The Occult among the Aborigines of South America? Some Remarks on Race, Coloniality, and the West in the Study of Esotericism Mariano Villalba
  • "Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels": Western Esotericism, Yoga, and the Discourse of Authenticity Keith Cantú
  • Rejected Knowledge Reconsidered: Some Methodological Notes on Esotericism and Marginality Egil Asprem
  • Race and (the Study of) Esotericism Justine Bakker
  • "What Can the Whole World Be Hiding?" Exploring Africana Esotericisms in the American Soul-Blues Continuum Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Stephen C. Finley
  • Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research Manon Hedenborg White
  • What do Jade Eggs Tell Us about the Category "Esotericism"? Spirituality, Neoliberalism, Secrecy, and Commodities Susannah Crockford
  • Interpretation Reconsidered: The Definitional Progression in the Study of Esotericism as a Case in Point for the Varifocal Theory of Interpretation Dimitry Okropiridze
  • Afterword: Outlines of a New Roadmap Egil Asprem and Julian Strube
  • Index.