Esotericism in Western Culture
Counter-Normativity and Rejected Knowledge
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 29 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350459694
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156x22 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 0 bw illus 809
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Long description:
This accessible introduction by the world's leading expert explains why the study of esotericism is not a marginal pursuit but belongs at the center of modern research in the humanities. Reflecting updates in the field since the foundational publication Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2013), Wouter J. Hanegraaff demonstrates that the exclusion of "rejected knowledge" from normative accounts of Western civilization is the reflection of a narrow Eurocentric ideology that became the template for discrediting and ultimately destroying so-called "primitive" cultures associated with "superstition" and "pagan idolatry" during the global colonial age.
Rejecting this "rejection of rejected knowledge" means restoring the suppressed to its legitimate place in history and cultural analysis. Through this approach, Wouter J. Hanegraaff depicts a radically inclusive vision of the Greater West and its forgotten histories, from pagan antiquity through Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultures up to secular modernity and beyond.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1 What do we mean by Esotericism?
2 A Short History of Rejected Knowledge
3 Internal Eurocentrism
4 Worldviews
5 Knowledge
6 Practice
7 Modernization
8 Esoteric Transdisciplinarity
9 The Importance of Esotericism
Appendix 1: Glossary of Technical Terms
Appendix 2: Sources and Resources
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
