"This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture"--
This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture.
Introduction Christopher Partridge
PART I: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SOURCES
1. Ancient Esoteric Traditions: Mystery,
Revelation, Gnosis / Dylan M. Burns
2. The Occult Middle Ages/ Peter J.
Forshaw
PART II: THE RENAISSANCE
3. The Hermetic Revival in Italy / György E. Szönyi
4. Alchemical Hermeticism / Florian Ebeling
5. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa /
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
6. Paracelsus / Andrew Weeks
7. John Dee / Glyn Parry
PART III: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
8. Jacob Böhme and
Christian Theosophy / Wouter J. Hanegraaff
9. The Rosicrucian Manifestos and
Early Rosicrucianism / Hereward Tilton
10. Emanuel Swedenborg / Jane
Williams-Hogan
11. Freemasonry / Jan A. M. Snoek and Henrik Bogdan
12.
Illuminism/ Andreas Önnerfors
13. Martinism in Eighteenth-century France /
Christian Giudice
14. Animal Magnetism and Mesmerism / Adam Crabtree
PART IV: NINETEENTH CENTURY
15. Spiritualism / Cathy Gutierrez
16. New
Thought Traditions / Jeremy Rapport
17. Eliphas Lévi / Christopher McIntosh
18. Paschal Beverly Randolph/ Hugh Urban
19. William Wynn Westcott/ Francisco
Santos Silva
20. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn/ Robert A. Gilbert
21.
Samuel Liddell/ Mathers Francisco Santos Silva
22. Theosophy / Olav Hammer
23. Frederic W. H. Myers / Jeffrey J. Kripal
24. The Society for Psychical
Research / Egil Asprem
PART V: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
25. Ordo Templi
Orientis/ Christian Giudice
26. Arthur Edward Waite / Alison Butler
27.
Charles Fort / Jeffrey J. Kripal
28. Aleister Crowley: A Prophet for the
Modern Age / Henrik Bogdan
29. Austin Osman Spare / Phil Baker
30. René
Guénon and Traditionalism / Peter King
31. Dion Fortune and the Society of
the Inner Light / Alison Butler
32. John Whiteside Parsons / Nicholas Campion
33. Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition / Henrik Bogdan
34. Robert
Anton Wilson / Erik Davis
35. Nazism and the Occult / Julian Strube
36. The
Theosophical Current in the Twentieth Century / Olav Hammer
37. Contemporary
Paganism and the Occult/ Graham Harvey
38. New Age / Olav Hammer
39.
Contemporary Ritual Magic / Egil Asprem 40 Contemporary Satanism / Jesper
Aagaard Petersen
41. Chaos Magick / Colin Duggan
42. Vampirism, Lycanthropy,
and Otherkin / Jay Johnston
43. Hakim Bey / Christian Greer
PART VI: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE ARTS
44. The Occult and the Visual Arts /
Tessel M. Bauduin
45. The Occult and Film / Brian Baker
46. Kenneth Anger /
Deborah Allison
47. Dennis Wheatley / Phil Baker
48. The Occult and Modern
Horror Fiction / Douglas E. Cowan
49. The Occult and Science Fiction/Fantasy
/ Brian Baker
50. H.P. Lovecraft / Erik Davis
51. The Occult and Comics /
Kennet Granholm
52. The Occult and Popular Music / Christopher Partridge
53.
The Occult on the Internet / Douglas E. Cowan
PART VII: BELIEFS, PRACTICES, ISSUES, AND APPROACHES 54/ Kabbalah / Peter J.
Forshaw
55. Alchemy / Georgiana D. Hedesan
56. Sex Magic / Hugh Urban
57.
Tarot / Helen Farley
58. Scrying / Angela Voss
59. Astrology / Nicholas
Campion
60. Grimoires / Owen Davies
61. Orientalism and the Occult /
Christopher Partridge
62. Occult War / George J. Sieg
63. The Counterculture
and the Occult / Erik Davis
64. Intermediary Beings / Egil Asprem
65. The
Body in Occult Thought / Jay Johnston
66. Drugs and the Occult / Dan Merkur
67. Gender and the Occult / Jay Johnston
68. Crime, Moral Panic, and the
Occult / Jeffrey S. Victor
69. Conspiracy Theories and the Occult / Michael
Barkun
70. Science and the Occult / Egil Asprem
71. Sociology and the Occult
/ Kennet Granholm
72. Psychology and the Occult: Dialectics of Disenchantment
and Re-Enchantment in the Modern Self / Roderick Main
73. Opposition to the
Occult / Douglas E. Cowan
Christopher Partridge is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. His research and writing focuses on alternative spiritual currents, countercultures and popular music.
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