Aries is the first professional academic journal 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; 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.
Aries is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles and book reviews in English, French, German and Italian.
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Editor-in-Chief Egil Asprem, Stockholm University, Sweden
Book Review Editor Julian Strube, University of Münster, Germany
Editorial Board Jean-Pierre Brach, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France
Dylan Burns, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Carole Cusack, University of Sydney, Australia
Claire Fanger, Rice University, TX, USA
Christine Ferguson, University of Stirling, UK
Peter Forshaw, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wouter Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boaz Huss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Andreas Kilcher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Birgit Menzel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Sophie Page, University College London, UK
Marco Pasi, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Liana Saif, Warburg Institute, University of London, UK