UvA-DARE
May 2, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
8 citations
in: Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Henrik Jungaberle (eds.), The Internationalization of Ayahuasca, Lit Verlag: Zürich / Berlin 2011, 85-103.
UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
May 2, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
2 citations
in: Sergey Pakhomov (ed.), Mystic and Esoteric Movements in Theory and Practice, Fifth International Conference: History and Discourse, Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Study of Esotericism and Mysticism, Russian Christian Academy for Humanities: St. Petersburg 2012, 113-129.
UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
May 2, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
in: Boaz Huss (ed.), Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival (The Goldstein-Goren Library of Jewish Thought Publication No. 14), Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press: Beer-Sheva 2011, 251-266.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 2, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
in: Antoine Faivre & Wouter J. Hanegraaff (eds.), Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion: Selected Papers presented at the 17th Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City 1995 (Gnostica 2) Peeters: Louvain 1998., 11-61.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 2, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
in: Antoine Faivre & Wouter J. Hanegraaff (eds.), Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion: Selected Papers presented at the 17th Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City 1995 (Gnostica 2) Peeters: Louvain 1998., vii-xvii.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 2, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Jeffrey J. Kripal
in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff & Jeffrey J. Kripal (eds.), Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism, Brill: Leiden / Boston 2008 [U.S. Paperback edition: Fordham University Press: New York 2011, ix-xxii.
UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
April 30, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
39 citations
Correspondences 3 (2015), 55-91.
UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
April 29, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
17 citations
in: April D. DeConick (ed.), Religion: Secret Religion, MacMillan 2016, 155-170.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 29, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
[Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed Ch. 3. Apologetics and Polemics], Aliter 5 (2015), 84-107.
UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
April 29, 2026
Wouter Hanegraaff
in: Hans Thomas Hakl (ed.), OCTAGON, vol. 2 (English) : The Quest for Wholeness mirrored in a Library dedicated to Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Esotericism in particular, Gaggenau: Scientia Nova 2016, 25-34.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 28, 2026
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
In: Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Peter J. Forshaw & Marco Pasi (eds.), Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism, Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam 2019, 145-152.
November 17, 2025
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
in: Julian Strube, Marleen Thaler & Dominic Zöhrer (eds.), Subtle Energies in Therapy, Spirituality, Arts & Politics: 1800-Present, Brill: Leiden / Boston 2026, 187-206.
October 1, 2025
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Peter J. Forshaw, Marco Pasi
Ten years ago the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (HHP) of the University of Amsterdam celebrated its first decennial anniversary by publishing a memorial volume. Paying playful homage to the legendary Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus, who stands at the origin and symbolic centre of the field of research nowadays known as “Western esotericism,” it was titled...
October 1, 2025
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
That’s a very loaded question, so I’ll try to unpack it carefully. First of all, it is important to see that the study of Western esotericism involves much more than studying “esotericists.” Today it is not so hard to find groups or individuals who understand the terminology as a marker of identity, meaning that they would accept or even actively embrace it as a label for who they are and what...
SUNY Press eBooks
November 1, 2020
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
8 citations
in: Hans-Martin Krämer & Julian Strube (eds.), Theosophy Across Boundaries : Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement, State University of New York Press : Albany 2020, 29-64.
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
April 1, 2011
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Jeffrey J. Kripal
12 citations
From rumors about gnostic orgies in antiquity to the explicit erotic symbolism of alchemical texts, from the subtly coded eroticism of medieval kabbalah to the sexual magic practiced by contemporary occultists and countercultural translations of Asian Tantra, the history of Western esotericism is rich in references to the domains of eros and sexuality. This volume, which brings together an...
2011
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
in: Andreas B. Kilcher (ed.), Constructing Tradition: Means and Myths of Transmission in Western Esotericism, Brill: Leiden / Boston 2010, 91-111.
2010
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
6 citations
in: Carole M. Cusack & Christopher Hartney (eds.), Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf, Brill: Leiden / Boston 2010, 291-312.
2008
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
29 citations
in: Wouter J. Hanegraaff & Jeffrey J. Kripal (eds.), Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism, Brill: Leiden / Boston 2008 [U.S. Paperback edition: Fordham University Press: New York 2011, 175-207.