Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff (born April 10, 1961 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch cultural historian and religious scholar . He teaches at the University of Amsterdam and is one of the leading esoteric researchers.
Life
Hanegraaff studied classical guitar at the Zwolle Conservatory from 1982 to 1987 and cultural history at the University of Utrecht from 1986 to 1990 . In 1995 he received his doctorate in Utrecht on New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought . In 1999 he was appointed to the chair for the “History of Hermetic Philosophy and Allied Currents” at the University of Amsterdam. From 2002 to 2006 he was President of the Dutch Society for Religious Studies, from 2005 to 2013 he was President of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (in German, for example: European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism ). In 2006 Hanegraaff was accepted into the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences .
Works (selection)
- Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions . (Ed., With R. Kloppenborg), Leiden 1995.
- New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought . Leiden 1996; Reprinted in Albany 1998.
- Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times . (Ed., With Roelof van den Broek), Albany 1998.
- Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion . (Ed., With Antoine Faivre ), Louvain 1998.
- Esotérisme, gnoses & imaginaire symbolique: Mélanges offerts à Antoine Faivre . (Eds., With Richard Caron, Joscelyn Godwin & J.-L. Vieillard-Baron), Louvain 2001.
- Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents . (with Ruud M. Bouthoorn), Tempe, Arizona, 2005.
- Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism . (Eds., With Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek & Jean-Pierre Brach), 2 volumes, Leiden 2006.
- Swedenborg , Oetinger , Kant : Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven . West Chester 2007.
- Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism . (Ed., With Jeffrey J. Kripal), Brill, Leiden 2008.
- Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012.
- Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed . Bloomsbury, London 2013.
Web links
- Hanegraaff's website at the University of Amsterdam
- Creative Reading , Hanegraaff's blog.
- In the Land of Secrets , review by Helmut Zander on Esotericism and the Academy , NZZ from July 11, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hanegraaff, Wouter J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hanegraaff, Wouter Jacobus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch cultural historian and religious scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |