The Occult among the Aborigines of South America? Some Remarks on Race, Coloniality, and the West in the Study of Esotericism
New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism December 3, 2020 M. Villalba
In recent discussions about its global dimensions, esotericism is conceived as a “Western European” phenomenon “spread” or “diffused” from Western Europe to the rest of the world. This can be seen in Wouter Hanegraaff ’s notion of a “globalization” of esotericism, by which “originally European esoteric or occultist ideas and practices have now spread all over the globe” (2015, p. 86); in Henrik...