Occultism in a Global Perspective

Henrik Bogdan is Docent, History of Religions at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Gordan Djurdjevic lectures in the Department of Humanities at the Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada.

“The book easily ranks as one of the significant contributions of the year.” – Heterodoxology blog"A welcome and valuable addition to our knowledge about this wide-ranging subject … Occultism in a Global Perspective is a book of profound significance for anthropologists." – Anthropology Review Database"A valuable set of studies of little known movements" – Magonia Review of Books

• 1. Introduction: Occultism in a Global Perspective, Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic2. Locating the West: Problematizing the Western in Western Esotericism and Occultism, Kennet Granholm3. The Magical Order of the Fraternitas Saturni, Hans Thomas Hakl4. ‘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 Faxneld5. Hidden Wisdom in the Ill-Ordered House: A Short Survey of Occultism in Former Yugoslavia, Gordan Djurdjevic6. Occultism and Christianity in Twentieth Century Italy: Tommaso Palamidessi’s Christian Magic, Francesco Baroni7. Savitri Devi, Miguel Serrano, and the Global Phenomenon of Esoteric Hitlerism, Arthur Versluis8. Sexual Magic and Gnosis in Colombia: Tracing the Influence of G.I. Gurdjieff on Samael Aun Weor, PiereLuigi Zoccatelli9. Occultism in an Islamic Context: The Case of Modern Turkey From the Nineteenth Century to the Present Time, Thierry Zarconne10. Reception of Occultism in India: The Case of the Holy Order of Krishna, Henrik Bogdan11. Transnational Necromancy:  W. B. Yeats, Izumi Kyôka, and neo-nô as Occultic Stagecraft, Emily Somers12. An Australian Original: Rosaleen Norton and her Magical Cosmology, Nevill Drury