Occultism in a Global Perspective / edited by Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bogdan, Henrik.

Djurdjevic, Gordan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occultism--Cross-cultural studies.

Occultism.

Witchcraft--Cross-cultural studies.

Witchcraft.

Satanism--Cross-cultural studies.

Satanism.

Shamanism--Cross-cultural studies.

Shamanism.

Supernatural--Cross-cultural studies.

Supernatural.

Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham ; Bristol, CT : Acumen Pub Ltd, [2013]

Summary:

The study of the ideas and practices associated with occultism is a rapidly growing branch of contemporary scholarship. However, most research has focused on English- and French-speaking areas and has not addressed the wider spread and significance of occultism. Occultism in a Global Perspective presents a broad international overview of the occult across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia. Essays range across the German magical order of the Fraternitas Saturni, esoteric Satanism in Denmark, sexual magic in Colombia and the reception of occultism in modern Turkey, India and the former Yugoslavia. This study of occultism in a wide range of national contexts extends our understanding of how occult ideas and practices are shaped by their social, discursive, religious and political environment. Book jacket.

Contents:

Contributors

1. Introduction: occultism in a global perspective / Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic

2. Locating the West: problematizing the Western in Western esoteric ism and occultism / Kennet Granholm

3. The magical order of the Fraternitas Saturni / Hans Thomas Hakl

4. In communication with the powers of darkness: Satanism in turn-of-the-century Denmark, and its use as a legitimating device in present-day esotericism / Per Faxneld

5. Hidden wisdom in the ill-ordered house: a short survey of occultism in former Yugoslavia / Gordan Djurdjevic

6. Occultism and Christianity in twentieth-century Italy: Tommaso Palamidessi's Christian magic / Francesco Baroni

7. Savitri Devi, Miguel Serrano and the global phenomenon of esoteric Hitlerism / Arthur Versluis

8. Sexual magic and Gnosis in Colombia: tracing the influence of G. I. Gurdjieff on Samael Aun Weor / PierLuigi Zoccatelli

9. Occultism in an Islamic context: the case of modern Turkey from the nineteenth century to the present time / Thierry Zarcone

10. Reception of occultism in India: the case of the Holy Order of Krishna / Henrik Bogdan

11. Transnational necromancy: W. B. Yeats, Izumi Kyôka and neo-nô as occultic stagecraft / Emily Ao8ife Somers

12. An Australian original : Rosaleen Norton and her magical cosmology / Nevill Drury.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781844657162

1844657167

OCLC:

827261800

Publisher Number:

99956676481