34 papers in the library · 209 citations · publishing 1997-2026
January 19, 2012 Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical traditions to which these terms refer, or their relevance to intellectual history. Wouter Hanegraaff tells the neglected story of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have tried to come to terms with a cluster of 'pagan' ideas from late antiquity...
Project Muse 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.
The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2008 Wouter J. Hanegraaff 85 citations
Research into the so-called "philosophical" Hermetica has long been dominated by the foundational scholarship of Andre-Jean Festugiere, who strongly emphasized their Greek and philosophical elements. Since the late 1970s, this perspective has given way to a new and more complex one, due to the work of another French scholar, Jean-Pierre Mahe, who could profit from the discovery of new textual...
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.
2007 Wouter J. Hanegraaff
In different ways and for different reasons, the Yates paradigm and the Faivre paradigm both have the effect of privileging the "imaginal" domain over that of words, theories, and doctrines, and their attendant disciplines, such as theology or philosophy. According to the author the Faivre paradigm is now in the process of being replaced by a new one that reflects the 'widespread disaffection...
2001 Wouter J. Hanegraaff
The study of western esotericism finds itself in the middle of a process of academic professionalization and institutionalization2. Before addressing some problems connected with this development, and as an introduction to them, I would like to draw a parallel which may seem surprising at first sight. It is well known that the turbulent period of the 1960s produced, among many other things, the...
November 20, 1997 Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Part 1: Orientation: Major Trends in New Age Religion. Preliminary Demarcation of the Field - Channeling - Healing and Personal Growth - New Age Science - Neopaganism - New Age in a Restricted and in a General Sense. Part 2: Exposition: The Varieties of New Age Experience. The Nature of Reality - Meta-Empirical and Human Beings - Matters of the Mind - Death and Survival - Good and Evil -...