This comprehensive guide offers an unrivalled introduction to recent work in the study of
religion, from the religious traditions of Asia and the West, to new forms of religion and …

In the conventional dichotomy of chaste, pure Madonna and libidinous whore, the former
has usually been viewed as the ideal form of femininity. However, there is a modern …

“Double, double toil and trouble;/Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” Thus chant the three
potion-brewing witches ominously in Shakespeare's Macbeth (4.1. 10–38). The witch's …

In recent decades, academic scholarship has increasingly recognised the British occultist,
poet, and mountaineer Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) as a formative figure in the …

Despite the centrality of the concept of God in Christian theology and Western philosophy for
over two millennia, little attention has been given the concept of God in twentieth-century …

Santa Muerte is establishing a presence among practitioners of contemporary occultism in
Europe and North America. The occult milieu is highly different from the Mexican cult of …

The article analyses the early development of Aleister Crowley's (1875–1947) Gnostic
Catholic Mass and its c. 1917 German translation by Theodor Reuss (1855–1923), the …

In recent decades, academic scholarship has increasingly recognised the British occultist,
poet, and mountaineer Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) as a formative figure in the …

Based upon academic research at the University of Amsterdam's Center for the History of
Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, One Truth and One Spirit is a much-needed …

This chapter examines the category of esotericism and its relationship to the study of
religious secrecy. Today, most scholars use the term “esotericism” to refer to a wide range of …