I just received notice this morning of a call for papers from Canterbury Christ Church University for a conference titled “Re-Enchanting the Academy” to be held in Canterbury in the United Kingdom. This looks like a particularly interesting conference related… Continue Reading
I have been excited to start reading some of Manon Hedenborg-White’s analysis of gender within Thelema and O.T.O. as it comes into official publication. Hedenborg-White is a scholar from Sweden who has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the United States on… Continue Reading
For quite some time, Aries has been a leading academic journal coming out of Europe with a focus specifically on esotericism. Hetorodoxology reports the new release of the current issue of Aries (15.1), with a specific focus on Ancient Esotericism.… Continue Reading
Recently, friend and scholar Douglas Ezzy sent me a copy of his new book Sex, Death, and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival. I have only begun reading it, though I have skimmed through the whole of it, and have anticipated… Continue Reading
The professor of my graduate seminar in the philosophy of religion offered an interesting syllogism once to demonstrate why an allegorical reading of the bible was the appropriate reading: 1) The bible is completely true and without contradiction, 2) the… Continue Reading
Religion Dispatches features an interesting interview with historian Matthew Sutton, who recently authored American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelism. Sutton’s webpage states that the book is: the first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation.… Continue Reading
Continuing with my reports on the research being presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. One note to Zero Equals Two readers: The Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion gathers more then 9000 scholars… Continue Reading
In just a few days the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, probably the largest gathering of scholars of religion in the world, will start in San Diego. This year, the Western Esotericism Group is offering three sessions,… Continue Reading