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Digitized sources for the history of German parapsychology
The history of parapsychology has been one of my research interests in recent years. It is not so long ago that I reviewed Heather Wolffram’s recent book on German parapsychology, Stepchildren of...
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Buy a book on werewolves and help Malört Förlag
Malört Förlag (“Wormwood Publishing”) is a unique and delightful little Swedish publishing house “specializing in texts about the fantastic, the numinous and the aberrant”. Being in the trade of craft...
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Arguing with Angels in paperback
My first book, Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture, is about to be released in paperback. This means that one can finally get it at a more reasonable price: $24,95. The paperback...
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Towards Esotericism 3.0 – W. J. Hanegraaff reviews seven esotericism textbooks
If you’re new to the field of Western esotericism, planning to set up an introductory course somewhere, or wondering what to read as a crash-course to the field, here is something you have to read...
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More books for modern heterodoxologists
Inspired by my colleague Asbjørn Dyrendal’s recent spur of book blogging (i.e. this, this and this), I will further bring to the attention three recent collective volumes on themes that should be...
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W. J. Hanegraaff on Arguing with Angels
Wouter Hanegraaff has typed up a nice little review of my book, Arguing with Angels, over at his Creative Reading blog. He has many kind words, but I am first of all pleased that there are some very...
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“Correspondences”– Launching a new journal for esotericism research
The rumour already broke yesterday on Twitter and Facebook (a bit earlier than planned, I think), that a new journal is being launched: Correspondences: An Online Journal for the Academic Study of...
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Kabbalah and Modernity – more than red strings and pop queens
I have made a habit out of making the pre-print versions of some of my book reviews available here at Heterodoxology. I was recently reminded of one that I had completely forgotten about: a review of...
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Correspondences journal – deadline fast approaching!
As previously mentioned, a new online journal for the academic study of esotericism was launched recently, with the very fitting name Correspondences. If you are a scholar working on esoteric topics,...
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The esoteric in modern art
Over the last few years, there appears to have been an increased interest, at least from academics and curators, in the relationship between esotericism and art. A couple of my colleagues have spent...
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The (all too) secret history of Vril
It is astonishing how much of modern occultism is dependent on works of fiction. The machinations of secret societies, the malicious rituals of satanic cults, and the magicians’ adventures on the...
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The sources of gnosis – an evening of gnosticism scholarship in Amsterdam
On the 29th of May there will be an evening of gnosis at the Spui25 venue in Amsterdam. A group of scholars, some known as world-leading specialists of gnosticism and ancient Christianity will meet to...
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Open-access publishing and Western esotericism: Greeting Correspondences Vol....
The first issue of a new peer-reviewed journal for the study of Western esotericism has just been released. There aren’t too many of those around to begin with, so Correspondences is (as announced...
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Up for review: Discernment of Spirits, Soviet New Age, and Magic
I’ve received three books for review over the last few weeks, making for a hectic book review phase (I’m not gonna mention the ones I’m already late with). They are three fascinating collections,...
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Satan in the academy (again)
I ended 2013 with a retrospective on some personal favourites from the wealth of publications on esotericism last year. Of course there were many omissions, some of which I’ve payed tribute to on...
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Book review editor of Correspondences
As was just announced at the Correspondences website, the journal has a new book review editor. It’s me. As is well known, I’ve been enthusiastic about this new journal from the start. Taking on a more...
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Occultism in Global Perspective – an anthropologist’s review
Gordan Djurdjevic just spread a link to a review of the book he edited with Henrik Bogdan on Occultism in Global Perspective. I found it interesting enough to mention here because the review was...
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Patterns of Magicity: A review of Defining Magic: A Reader (eds. Otto &...
[This blog post is a little milestone: it is the first official review of a book sent to me by the publisher for being reviewed directly at Heterodoxology. (Yes, publishers, I am open to suggestions...
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Patterns of Magicity: A review of Defining Magic: A Reader (eds. Otto &...
[This is the second part of my longish review of Otto and Stausberg's Defining Magic: A Reader. This part focuses on the introductory chapter. For part one of the review, focusing on the selection of...
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Patterns of Magicity: A review of Defining Magic: A Reader (eds. Otto &...
[The third and final part of my review of Otto and Stausberg's Defining Magic. This part discusses the five final essays of the book, all of which are new contributions written by contemporary scholars...
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