Description
This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in Western Esotericism while also highlighting women's scholarship. In addition to providing a critical examination of important and under researched figures in the history of Western Esotericism, these fifteen essays also contribute to current debates in the study of esotericism about the very nature of the field itself. The chapters are divided into four thematic sections that address current topics in the study of esotericism: race and othering, femininity, power and leadership and embodiment. This collection not only adds important voices to the story of Western Esotericism, it hopes to change the way the story is told.
Author: Amy Hale
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/23/2023
Pages: 401
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.86d
ISBN13: 9783030768911
ISBN10: 3030768910
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology of Religion
- Religion | History
- Social Science | Anthropology | General
About the Author
Amy Hale is an anthropologist and folklorist specializing in contemporary esoteric history, art and culture. Co-edited collections include New Directions in Celtic Studies, and The Journal of the Academic Study of Magic 5. She has written widely on surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and is the author of the Colquhoun biography Genius of the Fern Loved Gully.