Islamic Occultism: In Theory and Practice
Courtesy of Liana Saif: here you find a description of the upcoming conference “Islamic Occultism: In Theory and Practice.” Not exactly ‘ancient’ in orientation (no pun intended), but absolutely relevant […]
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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 […]
Gnose et manichéisme. Festschrift Dubois
I have been waiting with bated breath for some time for the volume honoring the work of Jean-Daniel Dubois, a luminary of scholarship on Gnosticism and Manichaeism, to appear. Brepols […]
Platonism and Neoplatonism in Numen
The new issue of Numen (volume 63, issues 2-3) features a number of articles on later Platonism and religion in late antiquity. Looking forward to digging into them. The TOC […]
New book: The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity
Guy Stroumsa, who has contributed a great deal to the study of “esotericism” in ancient Christianity and Judaism (as in Hidden Wisdom and Secrecy and Concealment), is publishing what looks […]
Ancient Esotericism at the SBL
There will be a bevy of papers relevant to the study of esotericism and antiquity at the joint meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of […]
Doctoral and Postdoctoral positions at Göttingen University
A slew of positions at both the doctoral and post-doctoral levels in the study of ancient culture and religion at Georg-August Universität Göttingen have opened up. Interested in Coptic, Syriac, […]
AncientEsotericism.org :: Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity 