New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism (Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, #17)

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Esotericism’s Expanding Horizon: Why This Book Came to Be Egil Asprem and Julian Strube
Receptions of Revelations: A Future for the Study of Esotericism and Antiquity Dylan Burns
• Towards the Study of Esotericism without the “Western”: Esotericism from the Perspective of a Global Religious History Julian Strube
• “That I Did Love the Moor to Live with Him”: Islam in/and the Study of “Western Esotericism” Liana Saif
• The Occult among the Aborigines of South America? Some Remarks on Race, Coloniality, and the West in the Study of Esotericism Mariano Villalba
• “Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels”: Western Esotericism, Yoga, and the Discourse of Authenticity Keith Cantú
• Rejected Knowledge Reconsidered: Some Methodological Notes on Esotericism and Marginality Egil Asprem
• Race and Esotericism Justine Bakker
• “What Can the Whole World Be Hiding?” Exploring Africana Esotericisms in the American Soul-Blues Continuum Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Stephen C. Finley
• Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research Manon Hedenborg White
• What do Jade Eggs Tell Us about the Category “Esotericism”? Spirituality, Neoliberalism, Secrecy, and Commodities Susannah Crockford
• Interpretation Reconsidered: The Definitional Progression in the Study of Esotericism as a Case in Point for the Varifocal Theory of Interpretation Dimitry Okropiridze
• Afterword: Outlines of a New Roadmap Egil Asprem and Julian Strube