Bernardo Schiavetta

Western Esotericism: A Cosmopolitan History and Historiography

Migrating Minds March 25, 2025 Bernardo Schiavetta

From the 1950s onwards, the opening of the research field of the History of Religions to esoteric beliefs and practices worldwide was made possible by cosmopolitan, agnostic, and interdisciplinary positions that eventually responded to the constitutive cosmopolitan nature of esotericism itself. This article aims to show that, if Esotericism exists traditionally as an internal phenomenon in many...