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Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff (born 1961) is full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He served as the first President of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) from 2005 to 2013.
Works
His book Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury 2013) gives a systematic overview of Western esotericism as a field of academic research.
It focuses on questions of definition and demarcation, main historical currents, polemical and apologetic discourse, worldviews, ideas about knowledge, and practices, as well as the impact of modernization and the interdisciplinarity of the field.
See also
External links
- Wouter Hanegraaff @ Wikipedia
