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List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Or, What We Talk about When We Talk about Deviance
Manon Hedenborg White and Tim Rudbøg
Part 1
Theorizing Deviance
1 On the Social Organization of Rejected Knowledge Reassessing the Sociology of the Occult
Egil Asprem
2 On the Concept of a Deviant Movement
Olav Hammer
3 Disrupting Sanctified Deviance The Benefits of Boredom
Jay Johnston
4 “The Judges of Normality Are Everywhere” Has Esotericism and the Ideas of H. P. Blavatsky’s Ever Been Normal?
Tim Rudbøg
Part 2
Historical Cases
5 Constructions of Religious Deviance in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Richard Gordon
6 The Deviance of Toz The Reception of Toz Graecus and Magical Works Attributed to Toz in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Lauri Ockenström
7 Forgotten Knowledge, Deviance and Esotericism The Eternally Burning Lamps of Fortunio Liceti
Martin Mulsow
8 Strategic Deviance and Conflicting Loyalties The Spiritualist Interests of Bishop Ghenadie Petrescu (1836–1918)
Ionuț Daniel Băncilă
9 Jewish Kabbalah, Christian Onomatodoxy (Imyaslavie) and Theological Flexibility in Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Konstantin Burmistrov
10 Vasily V. Nalimov – A Scientist, Philosopher and “Mystical Anarchist” from Komi
Birgit Menzel
11 Haṭhayoga as “Black Magic” in Early Theosophy and Beyond
Keith E. Cantú
12 Philology as an Epistemological Strategy to Claim Higher Knowledge Translational Endeavors within the Theosophical Society; A Case Study of Annie Besant’s Bhagavad-Gita
Yves Mühlematter
13 “I Would Not Have Left Your Platform Had I Not Been Compelled” Annie Besant’s Exclusion from the National Secular Society (1891)
Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière
14 Dismissing the Occult The Links between Esoteric Currents and French Homeopathic Medicine during the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Léo Bernard
15 The Devil’s Popess The French Reception of Maria de Naglowska (1883–1936) in the Early 1930s
Michele Olzi
16 Confessions of a Persian Opium Smoker Sadegh Hedayat, Esotericism, and The Blind Owl
Kurosh Amoui
17 Fernando Pessoa’s Multiple Esoteric Deviances
Fabio Mendia
Part 3
Concluding Remarks
18 Afterword Rejected Knowledge as a Liberal Art
Joscelyn Godwin
Editors’ Conclusion
Manon Hedenborg White and Tim Rudbøg
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Or, What We Talk about When We Talk about Deviance
Manon Hedenborg White and Tim Rudbøg
Part 1
Theorizing Deviance
1 On the Social Organization of Rejected Knowledge Reassessing the Sociology of the Occult
Egil Asprem
2 On the Concept of a Deviant Movement
Olav Hammer
3 Disrupting Sanctified Deviance The Benefits of Boredom
Jay Johnston
4 “The Judges of Normality Are Everywhere” Has Esotericism and the Ideas of H. P. Blavatsky’s Ever Been Normal?
Tim Rudbøg
Part 2
Historical Cases
5 Constructions of Religious Deviance in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Richard Gordon
6 The Deviance of Toz The Reception of Toz Graecus and Magical Works Attributed to Toz in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Lauri Ockenström
7 Forgotten Knowledge, Deviance and Esotericism The Eternally Burning Lamps of Fortunio Liceti
Martin Mulsow
8 Strategic Deviance and Conflicting Loyalties The Spiritualist Interests of Bishop Ghenadie Petrescu (1836–1918)
Ionuț Daniel Băncilă
9 Jewish Kabbalah, Christian Onomatodoxy (Imyaslavie) and Theological Flexibility in Russia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Konstantin Burmistrov
10 Vasily V. Nalimov – A Scientist, Philosopher and “Mystical Anarchist” from Komi
Birgit Menzel
11 Haṭhayoga as “Black Magic” in Early Theosophy and Beyond
Keith E. Cantú
12 Philology as an Epistemological Strategy to Claim Higher Knowledge Translational Endeavors within the Theosophical Society; A Case Study of Annie Besant’s Bhagavad-Gita
Yves Mühlematter
13 “I Would Not Have Left Your Platform Had I Not Been Compelled” Annie Besant’s Exclusion from the National Secular Society (1891)
Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière
14 Dismissing the Occult The Links between Esoteric Currents and French Homeopathic Medicine during the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Léo Bernard
15 The Devil’s Popess The French Reception of Maria de Naglowska (1883–1936) in the Early 1930s
Michele Olzi
16 Confessions of a Persian Opium Smoker Sadegh Hedayat, Esotericism, and The Blind Owl
Kurosh Amoui
17 Fernando Pessoa’s Multiple Esoteric Deviances
Fabio Mendia
Part 3
Concluding Remarks
18 Afterword Rejected Knowledge as a Liberal Art
Joscelyn Godwin
Editors’ Conclusion
Manon Hedenborg White and Tim Rudbøg
Index