Notes on Contributors
Egil Asprem
is Associate Professor in History of Religions at Stockholm University. He is the editor-in-chief of Aries and has published widely on esotericism and its study, including The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900–1939 (Brill, 2014).
Justine M. Bakker
is a postdoctoral fellow in Critical Philosophy of Race at Radboud University, Nijmegen (the Netherlands). In May 2020, she obtained her PhD in Religion from Rice University (Houston, TX) with a dissertation that aimed to rethink the categories of and relationship between “the human” and “religion.”
Dylan M. Burns
is a research associate at Freie Universität Berlin. He has published several books and many articles on Gnosticism, later Greek philosophy, early Christianity, and their modern reception, recently including New Antiquities (Equinox, 2019) and Did God Care? (Brill, 2020).
Keith Cantú
is a PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is an Associate Editor for Correspondences and, along with his forthcoming dissertation, is the author of “Sri Sabhapati Swami: Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism” (Palgrave, 2021).
Susannah Crockford
is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. Her first monograph, Ripples of the Universe: Seeking Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, will be published in Spring 2021 in the Class 200 list by the University of Chicago Press. With a PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics, her research interests focus on questions of religion and ecology, science and spirituality. On Twitter: @SusCrockford.
Stephen C. Finley
is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African & African American Studies (AAAS) and Director of AAAS, who currently studies blackness and the paranormal. He is co-editor of Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There Is a Mystery”… (Brill 2015).
Manon Hedenborg White
holds a PhD in the History of Religions from Uppsala University. She is the author of The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Dimitry Okropiridze
is a research associate at Heidelberg University of Education and lecturer at the department for the Study of Religion at Heidelberg University. He has published widely on theoretical and transcultural topics in the study of religion and culture.
Hugh R. Page, Jr.
is Professor of Theology and Africana Studies and Vice President and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at Notre Dame University. He is co-editor of Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There Is a Mystery”… (Brill 2015).
Liana Saif
is a post-doctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute and Université Catholique de Louvain. Her research focuses on Islamic occult sciences and esotericism in a global context and exchanges between the Islamic world and the Latin West in medieval and early modern periods.
Julian Strube
is a Research Fellow at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published a range of monographs, edited volumes, and articles on the relationship between religion, esotericism, and politics since the nineteenth century from a global historical perspective.
Mariano Villalba
is a PhD candidate in History of Religions at the University of Lausanne and École Pratique des Hautes Études. He is editor of Melancolia and has published a number of articles on esotericism in the Spanish Renaissance, Argentina, and Mexico.