A recent academic paper by Idan Dershowitz makes a case for the manuscript fragments of passages from Deuteronomy written in paleo-Hebrew that were dismissed as fakes after their purchase in the 19th century by the British Museum actually being genuine.… Continue Reading
Columbia University Press has just published a paperback edition of Andrew Newberg’s Neurotheology: How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality. The publisher’s description sez: “Religion is often cast in opposition to science. Yet both are deeply rooted in the inner… Continue Reading
The Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities book series has just released a paperback edition of Gordan Djurdjevic’s important monograph “India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism,” originally published in 2014.… Continue Reading
Inner Traditions has announced the November 16, 2021, publication of the first new translation in 350 years of Agrippa’s influential Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Translated and annotated by Eric Purdue, it will appear as a three-volume hardcover slipcased edition… Continue Reading
Palgrave Macmillan has announced the upcoming publication of a new title in its Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities series. This will be Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present, edited by Georgina D. Hedesan and Tim Rudbøg.… Continue Reading
The latest issue of Aries, journal for the study of Western Esotericism is now out. It’s a special issue devoted to scholarly works on the Prophet of the Lovely Star. The issue, titled “Rethinking Aleister Crowley and Thelema,” was edited… Continue Reading
The EASR is calling for papers to be submitted for a panel at this Summer’s annual conference, to be held at the University of Pisa. They’re statement is: “Western esotericism has often been described as a religious and philosophical phenomenon that… Continue Reading
Liber Libræ sub figurâ XXX – The Book of the Balance: “15. Nevertheless have the greatest self-respect, and to that end sin not against thyself. The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge… Continue Reading
NYBooks.com recently reviewed the newly published Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory by Brian P. Copenhaver. An excerpt of the review reads: “But the most famous speech of the Renaissance, the… Continue Reading
In Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present Oxford professor of archaeology Chris Gosden explores the history of magic―an ancient and currently often overlooked aspect of human behavior and its present day resurgence. I learned about… Continue Reading