Publications - prof.dr. W.J. (Wouter) Hanegraaff

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refereed academic publications (7)

2011

W.J. Hanegraaff (2011). Teaching Experiential Dimensions of Western Esotericism. In W.B. Parsons (Ed.), Teaching Mysticism (pp. 154-169). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2011). Ayahuasca Groups and Networks in the Netherlands: A Challenge to the Study of Contemporary Religion. In B.C. Labate & H. Jungaberle (Eds.), The Internationalization of Ayahuasca (pp. 85-103). Zürich / Berlin: Lit.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2011). Kabbalah in Gnosis magazine (1985-1999). In B. Huss (Ed.), Kabbalah and contemporary spiritual revival (Goldstein-Goren library of Jewish thought, 14) (pp. 251-266). Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2011). Prospects for the Globalization of New Age: Spiritual Imperialism versus Cultural Diversity. In V. Altglas (Ed.), Religion and Globalization: Critical Concepts in Social Studies. London: Routledge.

2010

W.J. Hanegraaff (2010). The birth of esotericism from the spirit of Protestantism. Aries, 10(2), 197-216.

2009

W.J. Hanegraaff (2009). Better than magic: Cornelius Agrippa and Lazzarellian hermetism. Magic Ritual and Witchcraft, 4(1), 1-25.

2008

W.J. Hanegraaff (2008). Altered states of knowledge: the attainment of gnōsis in the Hermetica. The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 2(2), 128-163.

academic publications (24)

2011

W.J. Hanegraaff (2011). Joseph Ennemoser and Magnetic Historiography. Politica Hermetica, 25, 65-83.

2010

W.J. Hanegraaff (2010). Will-Erich Peuckert and the light of nature. In A. Versluis, C. Fanger, L. Irwin & M. Phillips (Eds.), Esotericism, religion, and nature (Studies in esotericism series / Association for the Study of Esotericism, 2) (pp. 281-305). Minneapolis, MN: North American Academic Press.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2010). 'And end history. And go to the stars': Terence McKenna and 2012. In C.M. Cusack & C. Hartney (Eds.), Religion and retributive logic: essays in honour of professor Garry W. Trompf (Numen book series, 126) (pp. 291-312). Leiden [etc.]: Brill.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2010). The Platonic frenzies in Marsilio Ficino. In J. Dijkstra, J. Kroesen & Y. Kuiper (Eds.), Myths, martyrs, and modernity: studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer (Numen book series, 127) (pp. 553-568). Leiden [etc.]: Brill.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2010). Magnetic gnosis: somnambulism and the quest for absolute knowledge. In A.B. Kilcher & P. Theisohn (Eds.), Die Enzyklopädik der Esoterik: Allwissenheitsmythen und universalwissenschaftliche Modelle in der Esoterik der Neuzeit (pp. 259-276). Paderborn [etc.]: Wilhelm Fink.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2010). The unspeakable and the law: esotericism in Anton Webern and the Second Viennese School. In L. Wuidar (Ed.), Music and esotericism Vol. 9. Aries book series (pp. 329-353). Leiden [etc.]: Brill.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2010). Philosophy’s shadow: Jacob Brucker and the history of thought. In R. Bod, J. Maat & T. Weststeijn (Eds.), The making of the humanities. - Vol. 1: Early Modern Europe (pp. 367-384). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2010). Western esotericism in Enlightenment historiography: the importance of Jacob Brucker. In A.B. Kilcher (Ed.), Constructing tradition: means and myths of transmission in western esotericism Vol. 11. Aries book series (pp. 91-111). Leiden [etc.]: Brill.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2010). The beginnings of occultist Kabbalah: Adolphe Franck and Eliphas Lévi. In B. Huss, M. Pasi & K. von Stuckrad (Eds.), Kabbalah and modernity: interpretations, transformations, adaptations (Aries book series, 10) (pp. 107-128). Leiden [etc.]: Brill.

2009

W.J. Hanegraaff (2009). New Age religion. In L. Woodhead, H. Kawanami & C. Partridge (Eds.), Religions in the modern world : traditions and transformations (pp. 339-356). Routledge: London / New York.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2009). The pagan who came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic orientalism. In W.J. Hanegraaff & J. Pijnenburg (Eds.), Hermes in the Academy: ten years' study of western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam (pp. 33-49). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2009). The seminal essence of divinity: Swedenborg’s understanding of Jesus Christ. In O. Hammer (Ed.), Alternative Christs (pp. 131-149). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2008

W.J. Hanegraaff (2008). Swedenborg’s magnum opus: [introduction]. In E. Swedenborg & L. Hyatt Cooper (Eds.), A disclosure of secrets of heaven contained in Sacred Scripture or the Word of the Lord : here first those in Genesis, together with amazing things seen in the world of spirits & in the heaven of angels. - Vol. 1: Genesis 1-8 (The New Century edition of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg) (pp. 63-129). West Chester, PA: The Swedenborg Foundation.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2008). Reason, faith, and gnosis: potentials and problematics of a typological construct. In P. Meusburger, M. Welker & E. Wunder (Eds.), Clashes of knowledge: orthodoxies and heterodoxies in science and religion (Knowledge and space, 1) (pp. 133-144). [Dordrecht]: Springer.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2008). La nascita dell’esoterismo dallo spirito del Protestantesimo. In A. Grossato (Ed.), Forme e correnti dell’esoterismo occidentale (pp. 125-144). Milano: Medusa.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2008). Under the mantle of love: the mystical eroticisms of Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno. In W.J. Hanegraaff & J.J. Kripal (Eds.), Hidden intercourse: eros and sexuality in the history of Western esotericism (Aries book series, 7) (pp. 175-207). Leiden / Boston: Brill.
J.J. Kripal & W.J. Hanegraaff (2008). Introduction: things we do not talk about. In W.J. Hanegraaff & J.J. Kripal (Eds.), Hidden intercourse: eros and sexuality in the history of Western esotericism (Aries book series, 7) (pp. ix-xxii). Leiden / Boston: Brill.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2008). Swedenborg aus der Sicht von Kant und der akademischen Kantforschung. In F. Stengel (Ed.), Kant und Swedenborg: Zugänge zu einem umstrittenen Verhältnis (Hallesche Beiträge zur europäischen Aufklärung, 38) (pp. 157-172). Tübingen: Niemeyer.

2007

W.J. Hanegraaff (2007). 'The Trouble with Images: Anti-Image Polemics and Western Esotericism'. In O. Hammer & K. von Stuckrad (Eds.), Polemical Encounters: Esotericism and its Others (pp. 107-136). Leiden / Boston: Brill.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2007). Giovanni da Correggio's De Quercu, sive de lapide philosophico. In L.M. Principe (Ed.), Chymists and Chymistry : Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry (pp. 101-112). Sagamore Beach: Watson Publishing International LLC.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2007). Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven (Swedenborg Studies, 18). West Chester, Pennsylvania: The Swedenborg Foundation.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2007). 'Fiction in the Desert of the Real: Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos'. Aries, 7(1), 85-109.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2007). 'The New Age Movement and Western Esotericism'. In D. Kemp & J.R. Lewis (Eds.), Handbook of New Age (pp. 25-50). Leiden / Boston: Brill.

2006

W.J. Hanegraaff (2006). Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism. Leiden & Boston: Brill.

professional publications (8)

2009

W.J. Hanegraaff (2009). Ten years of studying and teaching western esotericism. In W.J. Hanegraaff & J. Pijnenburg (Eds.), Hermes in the Academy: ten years' study of western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam (pp. 17-29). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2009). [Review of the book Études d’histoire de l’ésotérisme: mélanges offerts à Jean-Pierre Laurant pour son soixante-dixième anniversaire]. Aries, 9(2), 290-292.

2008

W.J. Hanegraaff (2008). Leaving the Garden (in search of religion): Jeffrey J. Kripal’s vision of a gnostic study of religion. [Review of the book The serpent's gift : gnostic reflections on the study of religion]. Religion, 38(3), 259-276.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2008). [Review of the book The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus : hermeticism from ancient to modern times]. Numen: International Review for the History of Religions, 55(5), 614-619.

2007

W.J. Hanegraaff (2007). Hermetische tradities en de natuurwetenschappen: Tussen beeldvorming en complexiteit. In F.J. Meijman, S. Snelders & O. de Wit (Eds.), Leonardo voor het publiek: Een geschiedenis van de wetenschaps- en techniekcommunicatie (pp. 295-305). Amsterdam: VU University Press & Da Vinci Institute.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2007). [Review of the book Hermetism from Late Antiquity to Humanism / La tradizione Ermetica dal mondo tardo-antico all'umanesima: Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Napoli, 20-24 novembre 2001]. Aries, 7(2), 227-229.

2006

W.J. Hanegraaff (2006). 'The Story of ESSWE'. Newsletter of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, 1, 2-5.
W.J. Hanegraaff (2006). "Everybody is Right": Frank Visser's Analysis of Ken Wilber. [Review of the book Ken Wilber: Denken als passie]. integralworld.