The Occult World

This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult.

Introduction, Christopher Partridge; Part I Ancient and Medieval Sources; Chapter 1 Ancient Esoteric Traditions, Dylan M. Burns; Chapter 2 The Occult Middle Ages, Peter J. Forshaw; Part II The Renaissance; Chapter 3 The Hermetic Revival in Italy, György E. Szönyi; Chapter 4 Alchemical Hermeticism, Florian Ebeling; Chapter 5 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Wouter J. Hanegraaff; Chapter 6 Paracelsus, Andrew Weeks; Chapter 7 John Dee, Glyn Parry; Part III Seventeenth Century and Eighteenth Century; Chapter 8 Jacob Böhme and Christian Theosophy, Wouter J. Hanegraaff; Chapter 9 The Rosicrucian Manifestos And Early Rosicrucianism, Hereward Tilton; Chapter 10 Emanuel Swedenborg, Jane Williams-Hogan; Chapter 11 Freemasonry, Jan A. M. Snoek, Henrik Bogdan; Chapter 12 Illuminism, Andreas Önnerfors; Chapter 13 Martinism in Eighteenth-Century France, Christian Giudice; Chapter 14 Animal Magnetism and Mesmerism, Adam Crabtree; Part IV Nineteenth Century; Chapter 15 Spiritualism, Cathy Gutierrez; Chapter 16 New Thought Traditions, Jeremy Rapport; Chapter 17 Eliphas Lévi, Christopher McIntosh; Chapter 18 Paschal Beverly Randolph, Hugh Urban; Chapter 19 William Wynn Westcott, Francisco Santos Silva; Chapter 20 The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Robert A. Gilbert; Chapter 21 Samuel Liddell Mathers, Francisco Santos Silva; Chapter 22 Theosophy, Olav Hammer; Chapter 23 Frederic W. H. Myers, Jeffrey J. Kripal; Chapter 24 The Society for Psychical Research, Egil Asprem; Part V Twentieth Century and the Contemporary World; Chapter 25 Ordo Templi Orientis, Christian Giudice; Chapter 26 Arthur Edward Waite, Alison Butler; Chapter 27 Charles Fort, Jeffrey J. Kripal; Chapter 28 Aleister Crowley, Henrik Bogdan; Chapter 29 Austin Osman Spare, Phil Baker; Chapter 30 René Guénon and Traditionalism, Peter King; Chapter 31 Dion Fortune and the Society of the Inner Light, Alison Butler; Chapter 32 John Whiteside Parsons, Nicholas Campion; Chapter 33 Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition, Henrik Bogdan; Chapter 34 Robert Anton Wilson, Erik Davis; Chapter 35 Nazism and the Occult, Julian Strube; Chapter 36 The Theosophical Current in the Twentieth Century, Olav Hammer; Chapter 37 Contemporary Paganism and the Occult, Graham Harvey; Chapter 38 New Age, Olav Hammer; Chapter 39 Contemporary Ritual Magic, Egil Asprem; Chapter 40 Contemporary Satanism, Jesper Aagaard Petersen; Chapter 41 Chaos Magick, Colin Duggan; Chapter 42 Vampirism, Lycanthropy, and Otherkin, Jay Johnston; Chapter 43 Hakim Bey, Christian Greer; Part VI Popular Culture and the Arts; Chapter 44 The Occult and the Visual Arts, Tessel M. Bauduin; Chapter 45 The Occult and Film, Brian Baker; Chapter 46 Kenneth Anger, Deborah Allison; Chapter 47 Dennis Wheatley, Phil Baker; Chapter 48 The Occult and Modern Horror Fiction, Douglas E. Cowan; Chapter 49 The Occult and Science Fiction/Fantasy, Brian Baker; Chapter 50 H.P. Lovecraft, Erik Davis; Chapter 51 The Occult and Comics, Kennet Granholm; Chapter 52 The Occult and Popular Music, Christopher Partridge; Chapter 53 The Occult on the Internet, Douglas E. Cowan; Part VII Beliefs, Practices, Issues, and Approaches; Chapter 54 Kabbalah, Peter J. Forshaw; Chapter 55 Alchemy, Georgiana D. Hedesan; Chapter 56 Sex Magic, Hugh Urban; Chapter 57 Tarot, Helen Farley; Chapter 58 Scrying, Angela Voss; Chapter 59 Astrology, Nicholas Campion; Chapter 60 Grimoires, Owen Davies; Chapter 61 Orientalism and the Occult, Christopher Partridge; Chapter 62 Occult War, George J. Sieg; Chapter 63 The Counterculture and the Occult, Erik Davis; Chapter 64 Intermediary Beings, Egil Asprem; Chapter 65 The Body in Occult Thought, Jay Johnston; Chapter 66 Drugs and the Occult, Dan Merkur; Chapter 67 Gender and the Occult, Jay Johnston; Chapter 68 Crime, Moral Panic, and the Occult, Jeffrey S. Victor; Chapter 69 Conspiracy Theories and the Occult, Michael Barkun; Chapter 70 Science and the Occult, Egil Asprem; Chapter 71 Sociology and the Occult, Kennet Granholm; Chapter 72 Psychology and the Occult, Roderick Main; Chapter 73 Opposition to the Occult, Douglas E. Cowan;