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  1. How do scientific concepts spread to religious contexts, and how are they reinterpreted?

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, May 2016, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  2. The Disenchantment of Problems: Musings on a Cognitive Turn in Intellectual History

    Article • Journal of Religion in Europe, December 2015, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  3. Reverse-engineering ‘esotericism': how to prepare a complex cultural concept for the cognitive science of religion

    Article • Religion, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Egil Asprem

  4. Dis/unity of Knowledge: Models for the Study of Modern Esotericism and Science

    Article • Numen, September 2015, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  5. Exploring relationships between esoteric spirituality and conspiracy theories

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Egil Asprem

  6. Book review: Occultism in a Global Perspective, written by Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic

    Article • Numen, March 2015, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  7. Religion as Magical Ideology: How the Supernatural Reflects Rationality. By Konrad Talmont-Kaminski. Durham, UK: Acumen, 2013. Pp. xi + 160. $99.99.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Egil Asprem

  8. Histories of the Hidden God: Concealment and Revelation in Western Gnostic, Esoteric, and Mystical Traditions. Edited by April D.DeConick and GrantAdamson. Sheffield, UK: Equinox, 2013. Pp. ix + 358. $120.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Egil Asprem

  9. The arch-conjuror of England. John Dee. By Glyn Parry. Pp. xii+335+14 black-and-white plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2011. £25. 978 0 300 11719 6

    Article • The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, March 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Egil Asprem

  10. The Problem of Disenchantment

    Article • January 2014, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  11. Arthur Versluis, Lee Irwin, Melinda Phillips (eds.),Esotericism, Religion, and Politics, Minneapolis, MI: New Cultures Press 2012. 345 pp. ISBN 978-15-96-50013-6.

    Article • Aries, January 2014, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  12. Theosophical Attitudes towards Science: Past and Present

    Article • January 2013, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  13. The Birth of Counterjihadist Terrorism: Reflections on some Unspoken Dimensions of 22/7

    Article • Pomegranate The International Journal of Pagan Studies, March 2012, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Egil Asprem

  14. Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations (review)

    Article • Magic Ritual and Witchcraft, January 2012, Project Muse

    Dr Egil Asprem

  15. Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory

    Article • Aries, January 2011, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  16. Pondering Imponderables: Occultism in the Mirror of Late Classical Physics

    Article • Aries, January 2011, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  17. Western Esotericism. Based on Papers Read at the Symposium on Western Esotericism, Held at Åbo, Finland, on 15–17 August

    Article • Aries, January 2011, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  18. A nice arrangement of heterodoxies: William Mcdougall and the professionalization of psychical research

    Article • Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Egil Asprem

  19. Parapsychology: Naturalising The Supernatural, Re-Enchanting Science

    Article • January 2010, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  20. The History of British Magic After Crowley: Kenneth Grant, Amado Crowley, Chaos Magic, Satanism, Lovecraft, The Left Hand Path, Blasphemy and Magical Morality

    Article • Aries, January 2010, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  21. Heathens up North:Politics, Polemics and Contemporary Norse Paganism in Norway

    Article • Pomegranate The International Journal of Pagan Studies, October 2008, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Egil Asprem

  22. False, Lying Spirits and Angels of Light: Ambiguous Mediation in Dr Rudd's Seventeenth-Century Treatise on Angel Magic

    Article • Magic Ritual and Witchcraft, January 2008, Project Muse

    Dr Egil Asprem

  23. Magic Naturalized? Negotiating Science and Occult Experience in Aleister Crowley's Scientific Illuminism La Magie “naturalisée”? De la négociation entre science et expérience occulte dans l'illuminisme scientifique d'Aleister Crowley

    Article • Aries, January 2008, Brill

    Dr Egil Asprem

  24. Kabbalah Recreata: Reception and Adaptation of Kabbalah in Modern Occultism

    Article • Pomegranate The International Journal of Pagan Studies, December 2007, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Egil Asprem

  25. Kabbalah Recreata:

    Article • Pomegranate The International Journal of Pagan Studies, September 2007, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Egil Asprem

  26. The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O.

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Egil Asprem