Wouter Hanegraaff
Wouter Hanegraaff | |
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University of Utrecht | |
Occupation | Historian |
Employer | University of Amsterdam |
Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff (born 10 April 1961) is professor of the History of
Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.[1][2] He served as the first president of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) from 2005 to 2013.[2]
Early life
Hanegraaff was raised as the son of a theologian.University of Utrecht from 1986 to 1990.[citation needed]
From 1992 to 1996 he was a Research Fellow at the department for the Study of Religions at the University of Utrecht.[citation needed] From 1996 to 1999 Hanegraaff held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Dutch Association for Scientific Research (NWO), during which time he spent a period working in Paris.[citation needed]
Career
In 1999 he became professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the
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] and he is now an honorary member of the ESSWE.
Partial bibliography
Monographs
- -----New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought, Brill, Leiden 1996, ISBN 0-7914-3854-6.
- ----- and R.M. Bouthoorn Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447–1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, 2005.
- -----Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven, The Swedenborg Foundation, West Chester, Pennsylvania 2007 (Swedenborg Studies Series, no. 18) ISBN 978-0-87785-321-3.
- -----Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture, ISBN 9780521196215.
- -----Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Bloomsbury, London 2013.
- -----Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered states of knowledge in late antiquity, ISBN 9781009123068.
Edited volumes
- (ed., with Peter J. Forshaw & Marco Pasi), Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism. Amsterdam University Press 2019, ISBN 9789463720205.
- (ed., with Ria Kloppenborg), Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions. ISBN 978-90-04-10290-3.
- (ed., with Roelof van den Broek), Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times. State University of New York Press, Albany 1998.
- (ed., with Antoine Faivre), Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion, Peeters, Louvain 1998.
- (ed., with Richard Caron, Joscelyn Godwin & Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron), Ésotérisme, gnoses & imaginaire symbolique: Mélanges offerts à Antoine Faivre, Peeters, Louvain 2001.
- (ed. in collaboration with Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek, Jean-Pierre Brach, Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, Brill, Leiden 2005. ISBN 978-90-04-15231-1.
- (ed. with Jeffrey J. Kripal), Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism. Brill, Leiden 2008.
- (ed. with Joyce Pijnenburg), Hermes in the Academy: Ten Years' Study of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press, 2009.
See also
References
Footnotes
- ^ Hanegraaff, Wouter (22 October 2012). "Wouter Hanegraaff on Western Esotericism". The Religious Studies Project podcast (Interview). Interviewed by Knut Melvær. Religious Studies Project Association. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ^ a b c Staff (2013). "dhr. prof. dr. W.J. (Wouter) Hanegraaff". University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ^ Hanegraaff 1998, p. vii.
- ^ "Wouter Hanegraaff". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
Sources
- Hanegraaff, Wouter (1998). New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9004106956.
- Hanegraaff, Wouter (2012). Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521196215.
- Hanegraaff, Wouter (2013). Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1441136466.