Voprosy Filosofii
July 10, 2026
Pavel Nosachev
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical foundations of three significant fields: New Religious Movements (NRMs) studies, New Age studies, and Western Esotericism. The author offers a historical overview of these domains, reconstructing the scholarly background and interdisciplinary context of their conceptual formation. It is argued that the primary obstacle to their...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
December 21, 2024
Pavel Nosachev
The article reconstructs the concept of J. Strube, a leading representative of the younger generation of esotericism researchers. In the first part of the article, his critical program is analyzed, it is established that he systematically deconstructed the existing ideas about Western esotericism with the help of a large source base. Starting with the demythologization of the story of the...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
March 8, 2023
Pavel Nosachev
The article presents an overview of the development of research on Western esotericism in the works of the younger generation of scientists in 2010-2021, the works of E. Asprem, Y. Strube, L. Saif are primarily distinguished. At the beginning, a general outline of the current state of esotericism research is given, then the analysis of the attitude of the younger generation to the works of the...
Religions
December 5, 2020
Pavel Nosachev
The main research issues of the article are the determination of the genesis of theology created in Supernatural and the understanding of ways in which this show transforms a traditional Christian theological narrative. The methodological framework of the article, on the one hand, is the theory of the occulture (C. Partridge), and on the other, the narrative theory proposed in U. Eco’s semiotic...
Religions
April 18, 2018
Pavel Nosachev
The main research issue of this article is to determine the extent to which Western esotericism influences the formation of computer game plots. The methodological framework is the occultural bricolage theory (C. Partridge). This article looks at how the paranormal is represented in the game “Gray Matter”, created by J. Jensen. Jensen has always used occult bricolage as the main method for...
Philosophy of Religion Analytic Researches
2018
Pavel Nosachev
1 citation
Многообразие мистического: «мистика» и «мистицизм» в западном эзотеризме конца XIX -начала XX векаПавел Георгиевич Носачев -кандидат философских наук, доцент Школы культурологии, доцент кафедры Философии религии и религиозных аспектов культуры.НИУ «Высшая школа экономики».Российская Федерация, 101000, г.Москва, ул.Мясницкая
Study of Religion
2018
Pavel Nosachev
The article discusses the possible perspectives of interdisciplinary research, standing on the border of the study of culture and religion. The author proposes to illustrate the specificity of such interdisciplinary character on the example of manifestation of Western esotericism in adventure computer games of the 90s. In the first part of the article main occulture myths are identified with...