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Syllabus for College course on Western Esotericism

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They will apparently hold a course on western esotericism at a university here in sweden.
Here is the syllabus and reading list:

http://www.uu.se/en/admissions/master/s ... 2F18&typ=1

Syllabus for Western Esotericism: Sex, Magic and Resistance from the Renaissance until Today:


7.5 credits
Course code: 5RT191
Education cycle: First cycle
Main field(s) of study and in-depth level: History and Social Sciences of Religion G1F
Grading system: Fail (U), Pass (G), Pass with distinction (VG).
Established: 2016-03-23
Established by: The Faculty Board of Theology
Revised: 2017-03-10
Revised by: The Faculty Board of Theology
Applies from: week 25, 2017
Entry requirements: 30 credits in a religious studies, social sciences or historical-philosophical subject.
Responsible department: Department of Theology

Reading list:

Davies, Owen
Grimoires : a history of magic books
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Dixon, Joy
Divine feminine : theosophy and feminism in England
Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.

Finley, Stephen; Page, Hugh; Guillory, Margarita
Esotericism in African American Religious Experience :
BRILL, 2014
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uppsala/deta ... D=10984154
vol. 19 (2014) s. 1-22

Gregorius, Fredrik
Inventing Africa: : Esotericism and the Creation of an Afrocentric Tradition in America
Part of:
Asprem, Egil; Granholm, Kennet
Contemporary esotericism
Sheffield: Equinox Pub., 2013

http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.its.uu.s ... D=10745274
(2014) s. 49-71

Hanegraaff, Wouter J.
Western esotericism : a guide for the perplexed
London: Bloomsbury, 2013

Owen, Alex
The place of enchantment : British occultism and the culture of the modern
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004

Partridge, Christopher
Occulture is Ordinary
Part of:
Asprem, Egil; Granholm, Kennet
Contemporary esotericism
Sheffield: Equinox Pub., 2013
http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.its.uu.s ... D=10745274
(2014) s. 113-133


Aagaard Petersen, Jesper
The Carnival of Dr. LaVey
Part of:
Faxneld, Per.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard.
The Devil's party
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Urban, Hugh B.
Magia sexualis : sex, magic, and liberation in modern Western esotericism
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006010715.html

Woodson, Jon
The Harlem Renaissance as Esotericism. Black Oragean Modernism

Part of:
Finley, Stephen; Page, Hugh; Guillory, Margarita
Esotericism in African American Religious Experience
BRILL, 2014
http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.its.uu.s ... D=10984154
(2014) s. 102-123


Electronically compendium Wehmeyer, Stephen. "Playing Dead: New Orleans' Northside Skull and Bone Gang", i In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art, red. Donald Cosentino, University of Washington Press, 2012, 145-159. (16 s.)
Hedenborg-White, Manon. "To Him the Winged Secret Flame, To Her the Stooping Starlight: The Social Construction of Gender in Contemporary Ordo Templi Orientis", The Pomegranate, vol. 15, nr. 1-2, s. 102-121 (19 s.)

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I thought this might be a fun reading list for some of us.

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Desecrated wrote:I thought this might be a fun reading list for some of us.
Now thats what I call a Reading List!
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Devil's Party is a fantastic book.
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