Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism is the first professional academic book series specifically devoted to a long-neglected but now rapidly developing domain of research in the humanities, usually referred to as “Western Esotericism”. This field covers a variety of “alternative” currents in western religious history, including so-called “hermetic philosophy” and related currents in the early modern period; alchemy, paracelsianism and rosicrucianism; Jewish and Christian kabbalah and its later developments; theosophical and illuminist currents; and various occultist and related developments during the 19th and 20th centuries, up to and including popular contemporary currents such as the New Age movement.
Editor-in-Chief
Marco Pasi University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Editorial Board
Jean-Pierre Brach École Pratique des Hautes Études, France
Wouter J. Hanegraaff University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Andreas Kilcher Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich
Advisory Board
Allison Coudert, Antoine Faivre, Olav Hammer, Monika Neugebauer-Wölk, Mark Sedgwick, Jan Snoek, György Szönyi, Garry Trompf