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Wouter J. Hanegraaff

Born

Netherlands

Website

http://www.uva.nl/profiel/h/a/w.j.hanegraaff/w....

Genre

Religious Studies, Western Esotericism, History Of Ideas

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Wouter J. Hanegraaff (1961) studied classical guitar at the Municipal Conservatory at Zwolle (1982-1987) and Cultural History at the University of Utrecht (1986-1990), with a specialization in alternative religious movements in the 20th century. From 1992-1996 he was a research assistant at the department for Study of Religions of the University of Utrecht, where he defendedhis dissertation New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought on 30 november 1995 (cum laude). From 1996 to 2000 he held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Dutch Assocation for Scientific Research (NWO), and spent a period working in Paris. On 1 september 1999 he was appointed full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Rela ...more

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Blavatsky Stripped Bare by a Buddhologist, Even.

I just finished reading this splendid new book by the Swiss scholar Urs App (I already knew him from a previous book about The Birth of Orientalism). Finally, somebody has done all the hard historical-philological work that is required to uncover the true foundations of Helena P. Blavatsky’s Theosophy, one of the most influential esoteric movements of the late nineteenth and the twentieth cent Read more of this blog post »

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Wouter J. Hanegraaff’s books

Average rating: 4.15 · 680 ratings · 74 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed 4.13 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought 4.23 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture 4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism (Complete single-volume) by Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Editor), Antoine Faivre, Roelof Van Den Broek 4.41 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity 4.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism (Aries, 7) by Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Editor), Jeffrey J. Kripal (Editor), Hugh B. Urban (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hermes in the Academy: Ten Years' Study of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam by Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Editor), Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (Contributor), J. Pijnenburg (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism by Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Editor), Peter Forshaw (Editor), Marco Pasi (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447 1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents (Volume 281) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism (2 books)
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“He rejected the modern world and all its values as the absolute antithesis of Tradition, and spent the last decades of his life as a Sufi recluse in Egypt.”
― Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed

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“Human beings are vulnerable to illness because they are born in a fallen state, for which Paracelsus had invented the term cagastrum, and therefore the attainment of health ultimately implies spiritual as well as bodily regeneration towards a state of purification. Healing means ultimately reversing the Fall.”
― Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed

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