Online Talk: Hermeticism in Islam: from the Sabians of Harran to al-Suhrawardi
The “Between Athens & Alexandria. Platonism, 3rd-7th c. CE” research project cordially invites you to its next online event: […]
Tag Archives: Hermeticism
Conference on Cosmic Ascent in Theory and Practice: Call for Papers
A conference in June of this year at Trinity College, Dublin on all aspects of cosmic ascent narratives. Papers are very welcome from scholars working on any aspect of this […]
New book: The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus
An up-to-date study of the ancient Hermetica in their Egyptian context with attention to Egyptian, Greek, and Gnostic sources alike – a sort of sequel to Mahé’s Hermès en Haute-Égypte – […]
Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction
Since the ’90s, the standard English translation of the Corpus Hermeticum has been Copenhaver’s Hermetica. It remains a very useful tool, but one way in which it is inferior to […]
Gnosis volume 3.1: Hermetism
Courtesy of April DeConick: the newest issue of Gnosis: Journal for Gnostic Studies is guest-curated by Christian Bull, and features a collection of new papers on Hermetism. (It doesn’t get […]
Shi’ite Esotericism, Its Roots and Developments
Brepols has just published a new volume on Shi’ite Esotericism, its relationship to earlier Jewish, Christian, Gnostic, and Manichaean currents, and its various trajectories in Islam. It promises to be […]
Call for papers: Arcanum
Ingrid Lotze has sent out the following call for papers for a special journal issue on esotericism and medieval sources. It certainly is a (relatively) neglected subject. Watch this space! […]
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