Marco Pasi, Mriganka Mukhopadhyay and Henrik Bodan will be presenting a panel: “Esotericism in a global context: centres, margins, and everything in between” at the 22nd Quinquennial World Congress of the IAHR at the University of Otago, that the New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions is organizing. The theme of the congress is…

Mriganka Mukhopadhyay and Karl Baier are presenting a panel in the 26th ECSAS conference: Occult South Asia: Rethinking the History of Modern South Asian Religions and Spiritualities through the Lens of Esotericism Research and vice versa. View the abstract of the panel here. This panel will be the third annual meeting of OSAN (Occult South…

Nationalism and religion have intertwined closely over the past two centuries. Indeed, nationalism can easily be associated with the ideas of “political religion”, charismatic leadership, forms of prophetism, messianism, millennialism and more generally with mysticism, esotericism and alternative spirituality. The old religious concept of a divine covenant with an “chosen people” takes on new forms in…