All Stories

  1. Editorial
  2. Esotericism, the New Right, and Academic Scholarship
  3. Hinduism, Sanātana Dharma, and the Global Struggle About “True Religion”
  4. Esotericism and Global Religious History
  5. Theosophy, Race, and the Ambiguities of Agency within the Colonial Context
  6. Global Religious History and Religious Comparison: a Programmatic Outline
  7. Esotericism between Europe and East Asia: How the “Esoteric Distinction” Became a Structure in Cross-Cultural Interpretation
  8. Religious Comparativism, Esotericism, and the Global Occult: A Methodological Outline
  9. The Emergence of “Esoteric” as a Comparative Category
  10. THE BRAHMO SAMAJ AND ITS VAIṢṆAVA MILIEUS: INTERSECTIONS OF HINDU KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BENGALAnkurBarua. Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions, 170. Leiden and Boston: Brill, Pp. xxiv + 245. Hardback, $144.00.
  11. (Anti-)Colonialism, religion and science in Bengal from the perspective of global religious history
  12. Theosophy, Race, and the Study of Esotericism
  13. Global Religious History
  14. Rajnarayan Basu and His “Science of Religion”: The Emergence of Religious Studies through Exchanges between Bengali and Christian Reformers, Orientalists, and Theosophists
  15. Tantra as Experimental Science in the Works of John Woodroffe
  16. New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism
  17. The Mortal God: imagining the sovereign in colonial India
  18. Towards the Study of Esotericism without the “Western”: Esotericism from the Perspective of a Global Religious History
  19. Esotericism’s Expanding Horizon: Why This Book Came to Be
  20. Afterword: Outlines of a New Roadmap
  21. Yoga and meditation in modern esoteric traditions
  22. Hinduism, Western Esotericism, and New Age Religion in Europe
  23. Contested Christianities
  24. Socialism and Esotericism in July Monarchy France
  25. Occultist Identity Formations Between Theosophy and Socialism in fin-de-siècle France
  26. The emergence of ‘Marxism’ in its historical context: a perspective from religious studies
  27. Book Reviews
  28. Revolution, Illuminismus und Theosophie. Eine Genealogie der „häretischen“ Historiographie des frühen französischen Sozialismus und Kommunismus
  29. Between Occultism and Nazism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race in the Fascist Era, written by Peter Staudenmaier
  30. Sozialismus, Katholizismus und Okkultismus im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts
  31. Socialist religion and the emergence of occultism: a genealogical approach to socialism and secularization in 19th-century France
  32. Transgressing Boundaries
  33. Ein neues Christentum. Frühsozialismus, Neo-Katholizismus und die Einheit von Religion und Wissenschaft
  34. Julian Strube,Vril: Eine okkulte Urkraft in Theosophie und esoterischen Neonazismus, München: Wilhelm Fink 2013. 222 pp. ISBN: 978-3-7705-5515-4.
  35. René Gründer, Blótgemeinschaften. Eine Religionsethnografie des ‘germanischen Neuheidentums’ (Grenzüberschreitungen 9), Würzburg: Ergon Verlag 2010. 406 pp. ISBN 978-38-99-13798-9
  36. Die Erfindung des esoterischen Nationalsozialismus im Zeichen der Schwarzen Sonne