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Marking practices as esoteric is widespread in contemporary societies. This marking often occurs alongside labels, such as spiritual, magical, shamanic, New Age, folk religions or New Religious Movements. This series explores how practices marked as esoteric are framed in relation to asymmetrical power relations and negotiations of epistemic orders. Central are the following questions: Who establishes connections with the label esoteric, when, how, and in relation to what? How do these connections relate to dominant understandings of “esoteric”? What power dynamics are involved?
The series is particularly interested in contributions that address practices marked as esoteric in configurations of bureaucracy and institutional or legal politics, of societal and media representations, and of experiences of efficacy. We invite studies that make problematic categories, such as esoteric, alternative, or rational, programmatically productive by investigating the performative dimensions of their usage in their global entanglements. This also implies a focus on the situatedness of researchers and their practices.
This subseries is published in association with the DFG Center for Advanced Studies –Erlangen (CAS-E) “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective.”
The series is particularly interested in contributions that address practices marked as esoteric in configurations of bureaucracy and institutional or legal politics, of societal and media representations, and of experiences of efficacy. We invite studies that make problematic categories, such as esoteric, alternative, or rational, programmatically productive by investigating the performative dimensions of their usage in their global entanglements. This also implies a focus on the situatedness of researchers and their practices.
This subseries is published in association with the DFG Center for Advanced Studies –Erlangen (CAS-E) “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective.”
Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives, Volume 2
Volume 44
978-90-04-74362-5
Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives, Volume 1
Volume 43
978-90-04-73624-5
Series Editor
Giovanni Maltese, Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Dominik M. Müller, Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Editorial Board
Jessica Albrecht, Research Coordinator, DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective,” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Monika Hirmer, Research Coordinator, DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective,” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Michael Lackner, Senior professor of Sinology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Andreas Nehring, Professor emeritus of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology
Bernd-Christian Otto, Permanent Fellow, DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective,” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Advisory Board
Jean Comaroff, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow, Harvard University
Mareile Flitsch, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich, and Director of the Ethnological Museum in Zurich
David Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology, Director of Human Sciences, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
Vincent Gossaert, Research Professor of Daoism and Chinese Religion, Department of Religious Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL
Karl-Heinz Kohl, Professor Emeritus of Ethnology at Frankfurt Goethe University and former director of the Frobenius institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology in Germany
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Associate Dean of the Humanities, J. Newton Rayzor, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University
Marco Pasi, Research Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL
Dagmar Schäfer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Judith Schlehe, Professor Emerita, Institute for Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Freiburg
Giovanni Maltese, Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Dominik M. Müller, Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Editorial Board
Jessica Albrecht, Research Coordinator, DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective,” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Monika Hirmer, Research Coordinator, DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective,” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Michael Lackner, Senior professor of Sinology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Andreas Nehring, Professor emeritus of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology
Bernd-Christian Otto, Permanent Fellow, DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective,” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Advisory Board
Jean Comaroff, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow, Harvard University
Mareile Flitsch, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich, and Director of the Ethnological Museum in Zurich
David Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology, Director of Human Sciences, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
Vincent Gossaert, Research Professor of Daoism and Chinese Religion, Department of Religious Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL
Karl-Heinz Kohl, Professor Emeritus of Ethnology at Frankfurt Goethe University and former director of the Frobenius institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology in Germany
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Associate Dean of the Humanities, J. Newton Rayzor, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University
Marco Pasi, Research Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL
Dagmar Schäfer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Judith Schlehe, Professor Emerita, Institute for Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Freiburg