Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword - Wouter J. Hanegraaff
1. Introduction - Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr
2. The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Aleister Crowley and the
Magical Exploration of Edwardian Subjectivity - Alex Owen
3. Varieties of Magical Experience: Aleister Crowley's Views on
Occult Practice - Marco Pasi
4. Envisioning the Birth of a New Aeon: Dispensationalism and
Millenarianism in the Thelemic Tradition - Henrik Bogdan
5. The Great Beast as a Tantric hero: The Role of Yoga and Tantra
in Aleister Crowley's Magick - Gordan Djurdjevic
6. Continuing Knowledge from Generation unto Generation: The Social
and Literary Background of Aleister Crowley's Magick - Richard
Kaczynski
7. Aleister Crowley and the Yezidis - Tobias Churton
8. The Frenzied Beast: The Phaedran Furores in the Rites and
Writings of Aleister Crowley - Matthew D. Rogers
9. Aleister Crowley: Freemason! - Martin P. Starr
10. ''The One Thought that was not Untrue'': Aleister Crowley and
A. E. Waite - Robert R. Gilbert
11. The Beast and the Prophet: Aleister Crowley's Fascination with
Joseph Smith - Massimo Introvigne
12. Crowley and Wicca - Ronald Hutton
13. Through the Witch's Looking Glass: The Magick of Aleister
Crowley and the Witchcraft of Rosaleen Norton - Keith Richmond
14. The Occult Roots of Scientology? L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister
Crowley and the Origins of the World's Most Controversial New
Religion - Hugh Urban
15. Satan and the Beast. The Influence of Aleister Crowley on
Modern Satanism - Asbjørn Dyrendal
Index
Henrik Bogdan is Associate Professor in History of Religions at the
University of Gothenburg. In addition to numerous articles, he is
the author of Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation (2007)
and editor of Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley: A Correspondence, by
Aleister Crowley and David Curwen (2010).
Martin P. Starr was the editor of the Teitan Press series of the
works of Aleister Crowley which appeared between 1985 and 2003. He
is the author of The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and the Thelemites
(2003), the first academic study of Aleister Crowley's followers in
the USA.
"One would be hard-pressed to put together an assemblage of people
to equal the scholars included in this collection-the cream of the
crop of those esoteric scholars who have studied Crowley. The
volume makes a significant contribution to esoteric studies and
will set future debates about Crowley. It will be a must-read text
for all esoteric scholars in the next generation."--J. Gordon
Melton, Distinguished Professor of American Religious History,
Baylor
University
Ask a Question About this Product More... |