Biography:Wouter Hanegraaff
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Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff | |
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 Wouter Hanegraaff, 2006 | |
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| Nationality | Dutch |
| Citizenship | Netherlands |
| Education | University of Utrecht |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | University of Amsterdam |
Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff (born April 10, 1961) is full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.[1] He served as the first President of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) from 2005 to 2013.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag[better source needed] and he is now an honorary member of the ESSWE.
Hanegraaf's work is largely focused on Hermeticism.
Partial bibliography
Monographs
- -----New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought, Brill, Leiden 1996, State University of New York Press, Albany 1998. ISBN:978-90-04-10696-3; 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, Cambridge University Press , Cambridge 2012, ISBN:9780521196215.
- -----Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Bloomsbury, London 2013.
Edited volumes
- (ed., with Ria Kloppenborg), Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions. Brill, Leiden 1995, 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.
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. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
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.
External links
- Personal Homepage at University of Amsterdam
- Creative Reading, Hanegraaff's personal blog.
- Geschiedenis van de Hermetische Filosofie en Verwante Stromingen (GHF) The subdepartment at the University of Amsterdam, led by Hanegraaff.
- European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
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