Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the his…
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the his…
In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment, generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion, were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or chan…
"From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances in parlors, on stage, and in medical offices. They were performing mesmerism. In the first comprehensive American history of mesmerism in thirty years, Emily Ogden connects the occult scie…
"In this illuminating book, Paul Kléber Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical and the occult."--Cover.
Occultism in a global perspective
by Djurdjevic, Gordan, Bogdan, Henrik
fromApproaches to new religions
The study of the ideas and practices associated with occultism is a rapidly growing branch of contemporary scholarship. However, most research has focused on English and French speaking areas and has not addressed the wider spread and significance of occultism. Occultism in a Gl…