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Deconstructing ‘Western esotericism’: on Wouter Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy
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This paper discusses a number of consequences that – although not always intended by the author – can be drawn from the radically historicist approach adopted by Wouter J. Hanegraaff in his monograph Esotericism and the Academy. These consequences are the atomization of ‘esotericism’ into a disparate range of ideas, practices, and currents with few if any shared elements; a better approximation to contemporary anthropological views of culture and cultural innovation; a focus on polemical strategies rather than substantive contents and a concomitant possibility of cross-cultural comparison; a reluctance to engage with theories of broader scope; and a vacillation between seeing ‘esotericism’ as merely a waste-basket category and attempting nonetheless to salvage a minimal substantive definition.
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Intellectual historians in Sweden agreed already in the early twentieth century that Swedenborg's mystical side was part of a wider trend in the Enlightenment period.
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From New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism (2021) · cites this paper as Hammer (2013, pp.249-250)
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Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture
Hanegraaff, W. J. (2012) · doi:10.1017/cbo9781139048064 · Cited by 354
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Asprem, E., & Strube, J. (2021) · doi:10.1163/9789004446458 · Cited by 63
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- Authors
- Hammer, O.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern Denmark (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Hammer, Olav
- ORCID
- Hammer, Olav
- Venue
- Religion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-04
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 241-251
- ISSN
- 0048-721X (ISSN-L)
- 1096-1151
- OpenAlex
- W2133277423
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 1
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- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Religion (publishedVersion)
- University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Keywords
- Western esotericism, historicism, cultural innovation, cultural anthropology, cross-cultural comparison
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