New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Esotericism's Expanding Horizon: Why This Book Came to Be
Receptions of Revelations: A Future for the Study of Esotericism and Antiquity
Towards the Study of Esotericism without the ``Western'': Esotericism from the Perspective of a Global Religious History
``That I Did Love the Moor to Live with Him'': Islam in/and the Study of ``Western Esotericism''
The Occult among the Aborigines of South America? Some Remarks on Race, Coloniality, and the West in the Study of Esotericism
``Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels'': Western Esotericism, Yoga, and the Discourse of Authenticity
Rejected Knowledge Reconsidered: Some Methodological Notes on Esotericism and Marginality
Race and (the Study of) Esotericism
``What Can the Whole World Be Hiding?'': Exploring Africana Esotericisms in the American Soul-Blues Continuum
Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research
What Do Jade Eggs Tell Us about the Category ``Esotericism''? Spirituality, Neoliberalism, Secrecy, and Commodities
Interpretation Reconsidered: The Definitional Progression in the Study of Esotericism as a Case in Point for the Varifocal Theory of Interpretation
Afterword: Outlines of a New Roadmap
Index