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On 25 May 2021 Marco Pasi (at 18:00 CEST) will give a lecture, titled: “Witchcraft with Capital W”: The Magical Art of Chiara Fumai. The lecture is part of the Spring 2021 edition of the ongoing lecture series at Professur für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft ETH Zürich “Aesthetic and Scientific Epistemologies of the Occult in the…
*A new date is set for this workshop: 16th of April 2021. In light of Covid-19 the event will be held online* The “ESOGEN Workshop: Esotericism, Gender, and Sexuality” will feature a keynote lecture by Professor Christine Ferguson (University of Stirling) The call for papers is closed. More information about the ESOGEN Network and the…
An Online Conference, organized by the Goldstein Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, Commemorating the 400 th Anniversary of his Death ( 1620-2020 ) | September 14 th -16 th, 2020. John MacMurphy, PhD student at HHP, will be presenting a paper “Between Chymia and Alchemy: Chayim Vital’s Intimate Relationship with Western Occult Praxis”. Vital…
The Call for papers is up, the deadline is extended, it is now: 15 December 2020! We are happy to announce that ESSWE 8 will take place 5-7 July 2021, hosted by the Study of Religions Department at University College Cork. The confirmed keynotes are: -Dr Christopher Webster, Senior Lecturer, Aberystwyth University, “Stone, Symbol and…
The Summer courses, organised by the Graduate School of Social Science, will take place in June-July 2021.
Scarlet Women: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Western Esotericism On May 11, 16:00-17:30, Dr. Manon Hedenborg White (University of Amsterdam/Södertörn University) will be giving an open lecture in the context of the RMA seminar Current Issues in Religious Studies and Western Esotericism, entitled “Scarlet Women: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Western Esotericism”. This talk will…
The 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) will take place from 26 to 29 July 2021. 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….
Workshop Religious Drugs at the Masaryk University Brno The Department for the Study of Religions of Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions is organising the workshop “Religious Drugs” on 28-29 February 2020, where new ideas for research will be discussed, investigated and proposed. Confirmed Keyspeaker: Wouter J….
“Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts” 2020 Meeting of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE) 24-26 September, 2020 Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain la-Neuve, Belgium Deadline for submissions: 1 May, 2020 The European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE) invites you to submit proposals for its 2020 meeting….
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…
