Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: occultism in a global perspective
- 2 Locating the West: problematizing the Western in Western esotericism and occultism
- 3 The Magical Order of the Fraternitas Saturni
- 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
- 5 Hidden wisdom in the ill-ordered house: a short survey of occultism in former Yugoslavia
- 6 Occultism and Christianity in twentieth-century Italy: Tommaso Palamidessi's Christian magic
- 7 Savitri Devi, Miguel Serrano and the global phenomenon of esoteric Hitlerism
- 8 Sexual magic and Gnosis in Colombia: tracing the influence of G. I. Gurdjieff on Samael Aun Weor
- 9 Occultism in an Islamic context: the case of modern Turkey from the nineteenth century to the present time
- 10 Reception of occultism in India: the case of the Holy Order of Krishna
- 11 Transnational necromancy: W. B. Yeats, Izumi Kyôka and neo-nô as occultic stagecraft
- 12 An Australian original: Rosaleen Norton and her magical cosmology
- Index
Contributors
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: occultism in a global perspective
- 2 Locating the West: problematizing the Western in Western esotericism and occultism
- 3 The Magical Order of the Fraternitas Saturni
- 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
- 5 Hidden wisdom in the ill-ordered house: a short survey of occultism in former Yugoslavia
- 6 Occultism and Christianity in twentieth-century Italy: Tommaso Palamidessi's Christian magic
- 7 Savitri Devi, Miguel Serrano and the global phenomenon of esoteric Hitlerism
- 8 Sexual magic and Gnosis in Colombia: tracing the influence of G. I. Gurdjieff on Samael Aun Weor
- 9 Occultism in an Islamic context: the case of modern Turkey from the nineteenth century to the present time
- 10 Reception of occultism in India: the case of the Holy Order of Krishna
- 11 Transnational necromancy: W. B. Yeats, Izumi Kyôka and neo-nô as occultic stagecraft
- 12 An Australian original: Rosaleen Norton and her magical cosmology
- Index
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- Occultism in a Global Perspective , pp. vii - xPublisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2013