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Introduction to an edited volume
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Discipline
Western europe
Action physics
China
Key points
Western esotericism should be recognized as a legitimate and coherent field of academic study within the history of religions, requiring a critical historical approach.
Abstract
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.
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