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India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism by Gordan Djurdjevic (review)

India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism by... than a means to excite the audience; their combined fluidity provided twin vehicles for diverse concerns. deborah lea INTO Manchester gordan djurdjevic. India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Houndsmill UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp ix 194. The field of esotericism has long been marginalized in religious studies, and within esotericism the study of Asian religions has been even more marginalized. I remember a meeting of the Association for the Study of Esotericism in which the panels on magical traditions from Europe and the Ancient Near East were packed with people, while those that dealt with Asian concepts of magic and the supernatural were relatively deserted. This may perhaps be due to some visceral dislike of Asian religions, a response to the foreign that we see in some of our colleagues in theology. However, it may also be due to the lack of sources on Asian magical traditions and their influence on Western occultism; people may not know that there is a longstanding link between the esotericisms of the East and the West. Gordan Djurdjevic's book deals directly with this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft University of Pennsylvania Press

India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism by Gordan Djurdjevic (review)

Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , Volume 11 (1) – Jun 16, 2016
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than a means to excite the audience; their combined fluidity provided twin vehicles for diverse concerns. deborah lea INTO Manchester gordan djurdjevic. India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Houndsmill UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp ix 194. The field of esotericism has long been marginalized in religious studies, and within esotericism the study of Asian religions has been even more marginalized. I remember a meeting of the Association for the Study of Esotericism in which the panels on magical traditions from Europe and the Ancient Near East were packed with people, while those that dealt with Asian concepts of magic and the supernatural were relatively deserted. This may perhaps be due to some visceral dislike of Asian religions, a response to the foreign that we see in some of our colleagues in theology. However, it may also be due to the lack of sources on Asian magical traditions and their influence on Western occultism; people may not know that there is a longstanding link between the esotericisms of the East and the West. Gordan Djurdjevic's book deals directly with this

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