The Occult World

1. Ancient Esoteric Traditions: Mystery, Revelation, Gnosis
2. The Occult Middle Ages
3. The Hermetic Revival in Italy
4. Alchemical Hermeticism
5. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
6. Paracelsus
7. John Dee
8. Jacob Böhme and Christian Theosophy
9. The Rosicrucian Manifestos and Early Rosicrucianism
10. Emanuel Swedenborg
11. Freemasonry
12. Illuminism
13. Martinism in Eighteenth-century France
14. Animal Magnetism and Mesmerism
15. Spiritualism
16. New Thought Traditions
17. Eliphas Lévi
18. Paschal Beverly Randolph
19. William Wynn Westcott
20. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
21. Samuel Liddell Mathers
22. Theosophy
23. Frederic W. H. Myers
24. The Society for Psychical Research
25. Ordo Templi Orientis
26. Arthur Edward Waite
27. Charles Fort
28. Aleister Crowley: A Prophet for the Modern Age
29. Austin Osman Spare
30. René Guénon and Traditionalism
31. Dion Fortune and the Society of the Inner Light
32. John Whiteside Parsons
33. Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition
34. Robert Anton Wilson
35. Nazism and the Occult
36. The Theosophical Current in the Twentieth Century
37. Contemporary Paganism and the Occult
38. New Age
39. Contemporary Ritual Magic
40. Contemporary Satanism
41. Chaos Magick
42. Vampirism, Lycanthropy, and Otherkin
43. Hakim Bey
44. The Occult and the Visual Arts
45. The Occult and Film
46. Kenneth Anger
47. Dennis Wheatley
48. The Occult and Modern Horror Fiction
49. The Occult and Science Fiction/Fantasy
50. H.P. Lovecraft
51. The Occult and Comics
52. The Occult and Popular Music
53. The Occult on the Internet
54. Kabbalah
55. Alchemy
56. Sex Magic
57. Tarot
58. Scrying
59. Astrology
60. Grimoires
61. Orientalism and the Occult
62. Occult War
63. The Counterculture and the Occult
64. Intermediary Beings
65. The Body in Occult Thought
66. Drugs and the Occult
67. Gender and the Occult
68. Crime, Moral Panic, and the Occult
69. Conspiracy Theories and the Occult
70. Science and the Occult
71. Sociology and the Occult
72. Psychology and the Occult: Dialectics of Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment in the Modern Self
73. Opposition to the Occult

This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture.