Marco Pasi

Marco Pasi (1968) is a historian of religions specialized in the history of modern Western esotericism and the history of magic. His laurea dissertation at the University of Milan (1994) analysed the relationship of Aleister Crowley with the politics of his time. His Ph.D. dissertation at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE, Sorbonne, Paris), defended in 2004, was devoted to the idea of magic in British occultism. Pasi spent a period studying at the Warburg Institute (London) in 2000, and was Lecturer for History of European esoteric currents at the EPHE from 2001 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed Assistant Professor for History of Western Esotericism since the 19th century at the University of Amsterdam. Pasi is particularly interested in the processes of transformation of esotericism after the Enlightenment, especially under the impact of secularisation and modernisation, and the relationship between esoteric currents and the wider cultural context in which they have developed. He is member of the Editorial Board of Politica Hermetica and Book Review Editor of Aries.