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Esoteric Practices and Alternative Rationalities: A Global Perspective: Aries Book Series / Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives, cartea 43

Raquel Romberg, Andreas Nehring, Dominik Müller
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 mai 2026
This volume is the first milestone of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)-funded Center for Advanced Studies in Social Science and Humanities (CAS-E). It presents unprecedented comparative and interdisciplinary research by renowned and emerging scholars, as well as pioneering conceptual frameworks on contemporary and historically-informed esoteric practices from a global perspective. Offering grounded analysis and conceptual frameworks, this collection illuminates the political, economic, cultural, material, embodied, ritual, and symbolic contextual meanings of the pragmatic and experiential aspects of these practices, as well as identifies a range of sources of change, agents, and material evidence that embody them.
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ISBN-13: 9789004736238
ISBN-10: 9004736239
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Aries Book Series / Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives


Notă biografică

Raquel Romberg, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 1998), is a socio-cultural anthropologist and folklorist. She is the author of Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico (2003); Healing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Puerto Rico (2009); and several articles on the dramatic, sensuous, and poetic aspects of possession, divination, and healing ritual practices, as well as their colonial and postcolonial histories. Currently, Raquel is Research Coordinator of the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Science and Humanities (CAS-E) “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective” at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). For a list of publications see: link text.

Andreas Nehring (*1957), Dr. theol., is Professor Emeritus for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the FAU. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Salzburg, Makumira University in Tanzania, at the Lutheran Theological Seminary (LTS) in Hong Kong, as well as in Malaysia and Myanmar. At present he is Director of the CAS-E. His fields of research are: theories of religious and cultural studies, postcolonial theologies, transcultural processes of exchange and communication between Europe and India.

Dominik M. Müller is Heisenberg Professor and Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the FAU. His research interests cut across legal and political anthropology as well as the anthropology of Islam. He is the Principal Investigator of the CAS-E and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights” at FAU. He also heads the FAU branch of the International Max Planck Research School “Global Multiplicity: A Social Anthropology for the Now” (IMPRS-GM).

Cuprins

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices: a Global Perspective
Andreas Nehring and Raquel Romberg

Part 1 Crossovers

Introduction to Part 1

1 The Fantastic Foundations of Reality
Jeffrey J. Kripal

2 Uncanny Returns: Personhood and Its Doubling
Jean Comaroff

3 Searching for the Wings of the Wind in New York City
Paul Stoller

4 Exorcism and Psychiatry
Thomas J. Csordas

Part 2 Encounters

Introduction to Part 2

5 Mircea Eliade and the Multiple Entanglements in the History of Religions: a Critical Exploration
Stefanie Burkhardt

6 Alternative Rationalities and the Reinvention of Tradition: Vedic Science and the Agnihotra-Fire Ritual
Andreas Nehring

7 Ignatius Meets Yogananda: Varieties of Meditative Experience
Thomas J. Csordas, Isabel Castro and Luis Muñoz-Villalón

8 Learning with the Gods in China, 1600–1900
Vincent Goossaert

Part 3 Configurations

Introduction to Part 3

9 Protest Deities and the Logic of Images: Images as Epistemic Agents in Japanese Religion
Tomoë I.M. Steineck

10 The Power of Transgression in Esoteric and Artistic Practices
Marco Pasi

11 Becoming a Master: Materializing Esoteric Wisdom in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn
Kelly E. Hayes

Part 4 Revampings

Introduction to Part 4

12 Divinators, Marriage Alliances and an Accident: Contingency Management and Conflict Resolution in an East Indonesian Local Culture
Karl-Heinz Kohl

13 Post-pandemic Paranormal Healing: Javanese Practitioners’ Repositionings
Judith Schlehe

14 The Legitimation of Authority in a Modernizing Esoteric Society: the Case of Newar Buddhism
David N. Gellner and Samuel M. Grimes

Part 5 The Body and the “Archipelago of Anthropological Phenomenology” of Robert Desjarlais

Introduction to Part 5

15 Sampling Desjarlais’ Archipelago: a Voice-Over of Phenomenological Reflections on the Body, Presence, Poiesis, and Phantasms
Raquel Romberg and Andreas Nehring

16 Dialogue with Desjarlais about Presence: Illness, Healing, and Bodily Sensibilities in the Nepal Himalayas
Raquel Romberg (discussant)

17 Dialogue with Desjarlais about Critical Phenomenology, Struggling Along, Homelessness, and Experience
Knut Graw (discussant)

18 Dialogue with Desjarlais about Poiesis: Life, Loss, Dying and Death among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists
Dendup Chophel (discussant)

19 Dialogue with Desjarlais about Phantasms: Photography, Images, Spectrality and Phantasmography in Paris
Conerly Casey (discussant)

Afterword: the Study of Esoteric Practices—Broadening Spaces and Potentials
Dominik M. Müller

Index