Guest Edited Special Issues

2025

• Aschenbrenner, Lina, and Katharina Waldner, eds. 2025. ‘Aesthetics and Affects of Power in the Context of Religion’. Implicit Religion, Special Issue, 26 (1).

2024

• Errichiello, Mariano, Daniel J. Sheffield, and Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, eds. 2024. ‘Zoroastrian Esotericism’. Religiographies, Special Issue, 3 (1).

• Hirmer, Monika, ed. 2024. ‘Vernacular Cultures of South Asia’. Decolonial   Subversions, Special Issue.

• Rivera Andía, Juan Javier, ed. 2024. ‘Los Ritos Ganaderos Amerindios Cincuenta Años Después’. Allpanchis, Special Issue, 51 (93).

• Wright, Pablo, and Lourdes Báez Cubero, eds. 2024. ‘Scripta Ethnologica Nueva Epoca’. Scripta Ethnologica Nueva Epoca, Special Issue, 46 (1).

2023

• Otto, Bernd-Christian, ed. 2023. ‘Western Learned Magic as an Entangled Tradition’. Entangled Religions, Special Issue, 14 (3).

Journal Articles

Forthcoming

• Chopel, Dendup. ‘Buddhist Soteriological Paradigms and Bon Ritual Forms: Hybridization and Resilience of Marginal Indigenous Rituals in Bhutan’. Edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Andreas Nehring. Religion, Special Issue: The Resilience of Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective.

• Errichiello, Mariano. ‘Long Life to Nīrang! Identitarian, Discursive and Liturgical Resilience among the Parsis’. Edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Andreas Nehring. Religion, Special Issue: The Resilience of Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective.

• Hayes, Kelly E., and Knut Graw. ‘Economias Esotéricas e Fluxos Rituais: Perspectivas Comparativas Do Senegal e Do Brasil’. Civitas: Revista de Ciências Sociais.

• Hirmer Monika. ‘When the “Esoteric” Strikes Back: Revising the Field of Tantric Studies’. Edited by Paolo E Rosati. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Special Issue Magic, Supernatural and Danger.

• Hirmer, Monika. ‘The Resilience of a Guru’. Edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Andreas Nehring. Religion, Special Issue: The Resilience of Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective.

• Hirmer, Monika. ‘From South Asia to the West: Kundalini in Cross-Cultural Perspective’. Edited by Marleen Thaler. Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society.

• Mannberg, Markus. ‘The Witch as “Other”, the Witch as “Us”: Representations of Resilience in Circumcision Rites among the Amangoci Yao’. Edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Andreas Nehring. Religion, Special Issue: The Resilience of Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective.

• Nehring, Andreas, and Bernd-Christian Otto. ‘The Resilience of Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: A Typological Survey’. Edited by Andreas Nehring and Bernd-Christian Otto. Religion, Special Issue: The Resilience of Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. ‘The Resilience of Sigil Magic’. Edited by Andreas Nehring and Bernd-Christian Otto. Religion, Special Issue: The Resilience of Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective.

• Zander, Helmut. ‘Anthroposophical Resilience’. Edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Andreas Nehring. Religion, Special Issue: The Resilience of Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective.

In print

• Gardiner, Mark, and Steven Engler. ‘What’s Alternative about Alternative Rationality in CAS-E’s Definition of “Esotericism”?’ Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian, Conerly Casey, and Maryam Abbasi. ‘Solomon, King of Spirits: Historical and Ethnographic Explorations’. Edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Lackner. Comparing Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: Experiments in Collaborative Authorship. Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives 2. Leiden: Brill.

• Romberg, Raquel. ‘Indeterminate Latinidades: Dialogic Performatives of Othering’. Journal of Folklore Research Special issue: Latinidades: Others Studying Others.

2025

• Albrecht, Jessica A. 2025. ‘Girls’ Schools in Sri Lanka’. Implicit Religion 26 (Special Issue: Aesthetics and Affects of Power in the Context of Religion): 225–44.

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2025. ‘Studying the Materialization of Power in the Body: The Aesthetics of Neo-Spirituality’. Implicit Religion 26 (1): 289–314.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2025. ‘Imagined Utopias: Brasília and the Valley of the Dawn’. Religion 55 (2): 448–64.

• Lackner, Michael. 2025. ‘Lesen Ist Auch Schauen: Ein Gedicht von Wang Yangming Zu Den Wandlungen.’ Minima Sinica: Zeitschrift Zum Chinesischen Geist 34:117–26.

• Lackner, Michael, and Dominik Müller. 2025. ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’. Religion, Special Issue: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 37:244–76.

• Lackner, Michael, Dominik Müller, Andreas Nehring, and Bernd-Christian Otto. 2025. ‘Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’. Edited by Bernd-Christian Otto. Religion, Special Issue: Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 37.

• Marino, Davide. 2025. ‘The Path to Gnosis: A Microhistory’. Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies 16 (1): 83–110.

• Marino, Davide. 2025. ‘The Tao of Julius Evola’. Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies 16 (1): 111–41.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian, ed. 2025. ‘Introduction: Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective’. Religion, Special Issue: Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 37:231–43.

• Previato, Tommaso. 2025. ‘Relationality with the Dead in Chinese Sufism: Relics’ Agency and Self-Annihilation in the Afterlives of Two Jahriyya Shaykhs’. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, Special Issue: Death and Group Categorization in East Asian Cultures: 1–15.

• Previato, Tommaso. 2025. ‘Striving Ascetics or Vengeful Martyrs? Militant Pietism and Death-Related Practices among Jahriyya Muslims of Northwest China’. Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies.

2024

• Bastos, Cecilia. 2024. ‘Yoga, Emotion, and Behaviour: Becoming Conscious of Habitual Social Roles’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 39 (2): 229–47.

• Chopel, Dendup. 2024. ‘Multiple Voices and A Single Body: Spirits’ Embodiment, Speech, Discourse, and Historiography in an Old Ritual Community of Bhutan’. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 19 (2–3): 175–98.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2024. ‘Beyond the Theosophical Paradigm: Ilme Kṣnum and the Entangled History of Modern Parsis’. Journal of Persianate Studies 16 (2): 245–69.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2024. ‘New Perspectives on the Study of Esotericism and Zoroastrianism’. Religiographies 3 (1): 2–7.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2024. ‘What Is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach’. Religiographies 3 (1): 56–74.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2024. ‘The Key of Ilme Kṣnum to Understand the Zoroastrian Religion’. Edited by Quinn Clark, June.

• Graw, Knut. 2024. ‘Shells That Speak: Divination and Its Author’. Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft Special Issue Speaking with Spirits: Indeterminate Multisensory Efficacy 29 (2 & 3): 199–211.

• Gyimesi, Júlia. 2024. ‘A Misinterpreted Psychoanalyst: Herbert Silberer and His Theory of Symbol‐formation’. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 60 (1).

• Herrmans, Isabell. 2024. ‘Resonant Encounters: Luangan Multisensory Spirit Communication’. Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft Special Issue Speaking with Spirits: Indeterminate Multisensory Efficacy 29 (2 & 3): 243–63.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘Editorial: Introducing a New, Radically Inclusive, Decolonial Knowledge Landscape’. Decolonial Subversions, Special Issue, 1–12.

• Lackner, Michael, and Marta Hanson. 2024. ‘Editorial for Issues 5.1 and 5.2, Festschrift for Nathan Sivin’. International Journal of Divination and Prognostication 5 (2): 159–62.

• Ladeira, Thaís Assis, and Cecilia Dos Guimarães Bastos. 2024. ‘Life of Yoga and Neo-Hinduism: Identities and Belongings’. Sociologia & Antropologia 14 (1).

• Marino, Davide. 2024. ‘Albert de Pouvourville’s Occultisme Colonial’. Numen 71 (1): 71–93.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘(Re)Defining Esotericism from a CAS-E Perspective’. Aries 24 (2): 236–39.

• Previato, Tommaso. 2024. ‘Gendered Cosmology, Landscape and Species-Inclusive Community in Yunnan’s Tibeto-Burman Origin Myths’. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 55 (III): 379–409.

• Romberg, Raquel. 2024. ‘Introduction: “Speaking with Spirits: Indeterminate Multisensory Ritual Efficacy”’. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Special Issue, 19 (2): 135–53.

• Romberg, Raquel. 2024. ‘Multisensorial Poetics and Dramas of Brujería Ritual Communication Events’. Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft, Special Issue: Speaking with Spirits, 19 (2): 264–85.

• Stoller, Paul. 2024. ‘Afterword: Spirit Presence in the World’. Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft Special Issue Speaking with Spirits: Indeterminate Multisensory Efficacy 29 (2 & 3).

2023

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2023. ‘Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga’. SocArXiv.

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2023. ‘Introduction: On Material and Embodied Power Dynamics and Religion’. Material Religion 19 (1): 80–81.

• Cantú, Keith E. 2023. ‘Mantras for Every God and Goddess: Folk Religious Ritual in the Literature of Sabhapati Swami’. Edited by Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Aaron Michael Ullrey. Living Folk Religions, Special Issue.

• Chopel, Dendup, and Jigme Phuntsho. 2023. ‘Buddhism and Modernity: 4th International Vajrayāna Conference: An Analytical Conference Report’. Journal of Global Buddhism 24 (1): 47–53.

• Engler, Steven, and Mark Q. Gardiner. 2023. ‘(Re)Defining Esotericism: Fluid Definitions, Property Clusters and the Cross-Cultural Debate’. Aries 24 (2): 151–207.

• Graw, Knut. 2023. ‘Migration, Anthropology, and Voice: Notes on a West African Memory’. Commoning Ethnography 5 (1): 67–83.

• Hirmer, Monika, and Romina Istratii. 2023. ‘The Role of Language in Diversifying Knowledge Production: Reflecting on the Experience of Decolonial Subversions as a Multilingual Publishing Platform’. Edited by Victoria Odeniyi and Gillian Lazar. Decolonial Subversions, Special Issue Decolonising University and the Role of Linguistic Diversity.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2023. ‘Witold Kośny (1937–2022) – Ein Persönlicher Nachruf’. Zeitschrift Für Slawistik 68 (4): 683–85.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2023. ‘Postkoloniale Herausforderungen an Religionswissenschaft, Interkulturelle Theologie Und Missionswissenschaft’. ZMR 1–2 (107): 135–42.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Conjuring Planetary Spirits in the Twenty-First Century: Textual-Ritual Entanglements in Contemporary “Magic(k)”’. Entangled Religions 14 (3).

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Hans Thomas Hakl: Three Lives in One’. Edited by Marco Pasi. Religiographies, Special Issue, 1 (2).

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Introduction: Western Learned Magic as an Entangled Tradition’. Entangled Religions 14 (3).

• Rivera Andía, Juan Javier. 2023. ‘Ethnography and Sound: Recent Methodological Efforts in a Strongly Patrimonialised Space’. Sound Studies 9 (1): 114–16.

• Ugyel, Lhawang, Michael Givel, and Dendup Chophel. 2023. ‘Punctuating “Happiness”: Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and the Agenda‐setting of the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Policy in Bhutan’. Review of Policy Research 41 (3): 491–507.

2022

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2022. ‘Conferment of Meaning to Mount Damāvand between Indo-Iranian Myths and Zoroastrian Pilgrimages’. Himalayan and Central Asian Studies 24 (1–3): 219–29.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2022. ‘Eurasia as a Spiritual Realm? Inquiries into an Imagined Continent’. Journal of Comparative Studies 15 (44): 32–58.

• Menzel, Birgit, Anita Stašulāne, and Ilze Kačāne. 2022. ‘Esotericism and the East: Introduction’. Journal of Comparative Studies 15 (44): 6–7.

Book Chapters

Forthcoming

• Stoller, Paul. ‘Harmattan Dust: Rethinking Ethnography in Turbulent Times’. In Ethics and Ethnography, edited by Carole MacGranhan and Erica Weiss. Duke University Press.

• Stoller, Paul. ‘Writing and Re-Writing in Sorcery’s Shadow’. In On Being Wrong: Anthropological Lessons in Spite of Ourselves, edited by Sienna Craig and Mark Turin. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.

In print

• Cantú, Keith Edward, and Lennert Gesterkamp. ‘Converging Cosmologies: Esoteric Practices of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Daoism in Aleister Crowley’s Thelema’. In Comparing Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: Experiments in Collaborative Authorship, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Lackner. Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.

• Casey, Conerly, Dendup Chophel, and Isabell Herrmans. ‘Resilience and Relationalism: The Persistence of Marginalised Ritual Practices in Indonesia, Bhutan, and Nigeria’. In Comparing Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: Experiments in Collaborative Authorship, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Lackner. Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.

• Hayes, Kelly E. ‘Becoming a Master: Materializing Esoteric Wisdom in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn’. In Esoteric Practices and Alternative Rationalities in a Global Perspective, edited by Dominik Müller, Andreas Nehring, and Raquel Romberg. Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.

• Hayes, Kelly E., and Knut Graw. ‘Divination and Mediumship Compared: A Dialogical Essay on the Logic of Ritual Consultations in Senegal and Brazil’. In Comparing Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: Experiments in Collaborative Authorship, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Lackner. Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.

• Nehring, Andreas. ‘Alternative Rationalities and the Reinvention of Tradition: Vedic Science and the Agnihotra Fire Ritual’. In Esoteric Practices and Alternative Rationalities in a Global Perspective, edited by Dominik Müller, Andreas Nehring, and Raquel Romberg. Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives 1. Leiden: Brill.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. ‘Introduction’. In Comparing Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: Experiments in Collaborative Authorship, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Lackner. Leiden: Brill.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian, Conerly Casey, and Maryam Abbasi. in press. ‘Solomon, King of Spirits: Historical and Ethnographic Explorations’. In Comparing Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: Experiments in Collaborative Authorship, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Lackner. Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives . Leiden: Brill.

• Romberg, Raquel, and Andreas Nehring. ‘Introduction’. In Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices, edited by Raquel Romberg, Andreas Nehring, and Dominik Müller. Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.

• Romberg, Raquel, and Michael Lackner. ‘Moral Economies of Divination: Chinese and African Technologies, Ethics, Wisdom, and Affect’. In Comparing Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective: Experiments in Collaborative Authorship, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Lackner. Esoteric Practices: Global Perspectives 2. Leiden: Brill.

2025

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Harmattan Dust: Rethinking Ethnography in Turbulent Times’. In Ethics and Ethnography, edited by Carole MacGranhan and Erica Weiss. Duke University Press.

• Wright, Pablo. 2025. ‘We’re Evangelio, We Don’t Have to Remember. History, Ethnography, and Existence in the Argentine Qom/Toba Religion’. In Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion. History, Cosmology and Spirits, edited by Diana Espirito Santo and Ruy Blanes, 81–105. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

2024

• Burkhardt, Stefanie. 2024. ‘“…and We Have Fallen Apart:” Vom Zerfallen, Verschieben und Aushandeln von Grenzen in Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart’. In Mission in Film und Literatur: Band 2: Grenzüberschreitungen: Plots – Akteur:innen – Kontexte, edited by Claudia Jahnel, Klaus Hock, and Klaus-Dieter Kaiser, 167–76. Veröffentl.d.Wissenschaftl.Gesellschaft f.Theologie (VWGTh) 72. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.

• Chopel, Dendup. 2024. ‘“Ranked” Sacrificial Offerings: Reconstructing the Hierarchy of Bhutan’s Historical Public Service through New Textual and Ethnographic Sources’. In Traditional Neighbours, Different Modernities: Bhutan, Sikkim and the Mon Region, edited by Seiji Kumagai, Miguel Álvarez Ortega, Françoise Pommaret, and Anna Balikci Denjongpa, 425–59. Tokyo, Boston and London: Trans Pacific Press and Kyoto University Press.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2024. ‘The Enquiry’. In Magic Art: Special Edition, by André Breton-Ansell. Lopen, Somerset: Fulgur Press.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2024. ‘The Valley of the Dawn (Vale Do Amanhecer)’. In Dictionary of Contemporary Esotericism, edited by Egil Asprem.

• Lackner, Michael. 2024. ‘A Credulous Skeptic: Ji Yun on Mantic Arts and Spirit-Writing’. In Communicating with the Gods: Spirit-Writing in Chinese History and Society, edited by Matthias Schumann and Elena Valussi, 291–310. Prognostication in History, volume 11. Leiden Boston: Brill.

• Lackner, Michael. 2024. ‘One Golden Age? Or Many? Chinese Conceptions of the Ideal Society’. In Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture, edited by Stephen G. Nichols and Claudia Olk. New York: Routledge.

• Marino, Davide. 2024. ‘The Daoist Who Wasn’t: Albert de Pouvourville, Matgioi, Nguyễn Văn Cang, and the Problem of Indochinese Masters in Fin de Siècle Occultism’. In Appropriating the Dao: The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China, edited by Lukas K Pokorny and Franz Winter, 83–108. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

• Stoller, Paul. 2024. ‘A Parable of the Footbridge: Creativity and Change in the In-Between’. In Egalitarian Dynamics, edited by Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold. London, New York: Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805395881.

• Stoller, Paul. 2024. ‘Eye and Mind Revisited: The Work of Art in Anthropology’. In Between Life and Thought: Existential Anthropology and the Study of Religion, edited by Don Seeman and Devaka Premawardhana. Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press.

2023

• Cantú, Keith Edward. 2023. ‘Haṭhayoga as “Black Magic” in Early Theosophy and Beyond’. In Esotericism and Deviance, by Manon Hedenborg White and Tim Rudbøg. Brill.

• Cantú, Keith Edward. 2023. ‘Mantras for “Every God and Goddess”’. In Living Folk Religions, by Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Aaron Michael Ullrey, 160–77. London: Routledge.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2023. ‘Parsis and Ritual Innovation: Zoroastrian Funerary Practices in Mumbai during the Pandemic’. In CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age, edited by Emily Zoe Hertzman, Natalie Lang, Erica M. Larson, and Carola E. Lorea, 115–20. University of Hawaii Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824894931-017.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2023. ‘“Let Us Now Invoke the Three Celestial Lights of Fire, Sun and Moon into Ourselves”: Magic or Everyday Practice? A Critique of Magic for an Emic Approach to Śrīvidyā’’. In Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins, edited by Andrea Acri and Paolo E. Rosati. Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions. London New York: Routledge.

• Lackner, Michael. 2023. ‘Establishing the correct meaning, restoring the hidden path of interpretation. Some remarks on Shang Binghe’s (1870-1950) approach to the Classic of Changes’. In Temps, espace et destin: Mélanges offerts à Marc Kalinowski, edited by Marianne Bujard, Donald Harper, and Guoqiang Li. Bibliothèque de l’Institut des hautes études chinoises. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des hautes études Chinoises.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2023. ‘Vasily V. Nalimov—A Scientist, Philosopher and “Mystical Anarchist” from Komi’. In Esotericism and Deviance, edited by Manon Hedenborg White and Tim Rudbøg, 225–42. Brill.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2023. ‘Heilige Namen – Namen Der Heiligen: Ein Gruß Aus Oberbayern’. In Glauben Lehren, edited by Nadine Hamilton, Stephen James Hamilton, and Martin Hailer, 31–44. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.

• Previato, Tommaso. 2023. ‘Stati Alterati di Coscienza come Pratica Ascetica: Annientamento di Sé, Fenomeni Allucinatori e Culto delle Reliquie nel Sufismo Jahriya’. In Pluralità degli stati di coscienza nelle esperienze religiose, edited by Ester Bianchi, Francesco Marcattili, and Massimiliano Minelli. Mimesis.

• Stoller, Paul. 2023. ‘Jabes Among Songhay Sorcerers’. In Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis, edited by Thomas Schwarz Wentzer and Nils Bubandt, 178–93. London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

2022

• Lackner, Michael. 2022. ‘General Introduction’. In Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China, edited by Michael Lackner and Zhao Lu, 1–34. Brill.

• Lackner, Michael. 2022. ‘’Vie Conjointe’ Ou “Représentation Ordinaire”? Goethe et Hegel Sur Le Rapport Des Chinois à La Nature’. In Goethe – L’actualité d’un Inactuel, 371–76. Hermann.

• Müller, Dominik. 2022. ‘The Shaping of Islam in Brunei Darussalam’. In Routledge Handbook of Islam in Southeast Asia, edited by Syed Mhud Khairudin Aljunied. Routledge Handbooks. Abingdon New York (N.Y.): Routledge.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Mind the Body: Mindfulness Meditation as a Spiritual Practice Between Neuroscience, Therapy and Self-Awareness’. In The Palgrave Handbook of Embodiment and Learning, edited by Anja Kraus and Christoph Wulf, 383–401. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Spiritualität im religiösen Pluralismus – Postkoloniale Interventionen’. In Spiritualität: Theologische und humanwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, edited by Lars Allolio-Näcke and Peter Bubmann. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2022. ‘Unboxing Gaṇeśa – Oder: E-Darśan Is No Darśan’. In Das Verborgene sehen: Sinnsuche zwischen Medien, Religion und Ethik: Festschrift anlässlich der Emeritierung von Prof. Johanna Haberer, edited by Susanna Endres and Christian Gürtler. Ingolstadt, Donau: Christliche Publizistik Verlag.

• Otto, Bernd‐Christian. 2022. ‘Magic’. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer, 1–7. Wiley.

Book Reviews

2025

• Romberg, Raquel. 2025. ‘Review of “Spirited Diasporas: Personal Narratives and Global Futures of Afro-Atlantic Religions,” by Martin Tsang (Ed.)’. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 99 (1–2): 237–38.

2024

• Chopel, Dendup. 2024. ‘Review of “Rare Ethnography on the Politics and Practices of Religious Plurality in Rural Bhutan” by Kelzang T. Tashi’. Current Anthropology 65 (5): 933–35.

• Lackner, Michael. 2024. ‘Review of “Maître de Huainan (2022), Transl. by Marc Kalinowski. Traité Des Figures Célestes. Paris: Les Belles Lettres”’. International Journal of Divination and Prognostication 5 (1): 154–57.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2024. ‘Review on “Paul Tyson, Seven Brief Lessons on Magic, Eugene: Cascade Books”’. Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft 18 (3): 464–66.

• Rivera Andía, Juan Javier. 2024. ‘Review of “Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible”’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 30 (2): 518–19.

• Rivera Andía, Juan Javier. 2024. ‘Review of “Unlearning. Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge” by Charles L. Briggs’. Bulletin of Latin American Research 43 (1): 94–95.

2023

• Chophel, Dendup. 2023. ‘Review on “Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation. Vols. 1 & 2”’. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 24 (5): 395–96.

• Herrmans, Isabell. 2023. ‘Review Essay: In the Shadow of the Palms’. Inside Indonesia, no. 151.

• Rivera Andía, Juan Javier. 2023. ‘Review of “Cushing, Frank Hamilton. 2022. Tenatsali Ou l’ethnologue Qui Fut Transformé En Indien. Editado Por Patrick Pérez et Frédéric Saumade. Traducido Por Éléonore Devevey. Paris: CNRS Éditions”’. Anuário Antropológico 48 (2): 194–98.

• Rivera Andía, Juan Javier. 2023. ‘Review of “Muñoz Morán, Oscar (Ed.): Ensayos de Etnografía Teórica: Andes. (Madrid: Nola, 2021), 412 Pp.”’ Disparidades. Revista De Antropología 78 (2).

• Rivera Andía, Juan Javier. 2023. ‘Review of “Vilaça, Aparecida: Paletó and Me. Memories of My Indigenous Father. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 219 Pp.”’ Anthropos 118 (1): 285–86.

• Rivera Andía, Juan Javier. 2023. ‘Review of “Vinciane Despret, La Danse Du Cratérope Écaillé. Naissance d’une Théorie Éthologique”’. L’Homme 245:161–63.

2022

• Menzel, Birgit. 2022. ‘Review on “Dieter Vaitl (Ed.), An Den Grenzen Unseres Wissens. Von Der Faszination Des Paranormalen”’. Aries 22 (2): 301–5.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2022. ‘Review on ’Shai Feraro and Ethan Doyle White (Eds.), Magic and Witchery in the Modern West: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Triumph of the Moon’. International Journal for the Study of New Religions 11 (2).

Blog Articles

2025

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2025. ‘The Aesthetics of Esoteric Practices: Materialities, Performances, Senses’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 26 May 2025.

• Beinorius, Audrius. 2025. ‘Malleable Fixity: Indian Astrologers on Destiny and Human Choices’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 21 January 2025.

• Engler, Steven. 2025. ‘Spiritist and Allopathic Views of Healing in Brazil’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 20 May 2025.

• Farrer, Douglas Stephen. 2025. ‘Reflection upon “Dreamcraft in the Malay Art World”’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 14 May 2025.

• Freeman, Heather D. 2025. ‘Podcasting and Popular Media as Research Advocacy in Magic and Esoteric Studies’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 7 February 2025.

• Jane, Parish. 2025. ‘Ghanaian Traditional Religious Divination and American Celebrity in New York City’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 8 January 2025.

• Kiefer, Johanna Katharina. 2025. ‘Blurry Labels and Fluid Faiths: Managing Multireligiosity in Havana’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 19 May 2025.

• Mazzarella, William. 2025. ‘What Kind of Instrument Am I?’ CAS-E Blog (blog). 14 January 2025.

• Previato, Tommaso. 2025. ‘Ziyārah, Mystical Poetry, and Resurrection of Sufi Saints in Post-Mao China’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 20 January 2025.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Darkness at Noon in America’. Paths to Wellbeing, Substack (blog). 29 March 2025.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Hate and the Ecology of Social Trust’. Paths to Wellbeing, Substack (blog). 22 April 2025.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025. ‘Malaria That Isn’t Malaria/Antisemitism That Isn’t Antisemitism’. Paths to Wellbeing, Substack (blog). 6 May 2025.

• Stoller, Paul. 2025d. ‘The Return of the Plague’. Paths to Wellbeing, Substack (blog). 24 February 2025.

• Xavier, Shobhana. 2025. ‘What’s in a Name? The Challenges of Defining Sufism’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 3 June 2025.

2024

• Canals, Roger. 2024. ‘The Sacred Gaze: Some Reflections on the Act of Seeing in Religion and Beyond’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 6 December 2024.

• Chopel, Dendup. 2024. ‘Eindrücke Eines Bhutaners von Deutschland Und Japan – Zwei Industriegiganten (Impressions of a Bhutanese of Germany and Japan – Two Industrial Giants)’. Newsletter of the Deutsche Bhutan Himalaya Gesellschaft e. V. (German Bhutan Himalaya Society) (blog).

• Edmonds, James. 2024. ‘Chased by Blessings: The Metaphysics of the Olfactory’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 15 January 2024.

• Graw, Knut. 2024. ‘Into Oneness’. Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices (RENSEP) (blog). 2024.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2024. ‘UFOs and Utopian Visions: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 30 July 2024.

• Hertzer, Dominique. 2024. ‘Unlocking the Unknown: Intuitive Cognition in the Book of Changes (Yijing 易經)’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 25 November 2024.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2024. ‘Śrīvidyā Goes West: Continuities and Transformations in Cross-Cultural Encounters’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 22 February 2024.

• Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm. 2024. ‘Occult Disavowal: A Research Note’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 14 February 2024.

• Jones, Stephen. 2024. ‘Thoughts Arising from Screening Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 5 June 2024.

• Kokal, Kalindi. 2024. ‘Rituals of Justice’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 23 July 2024.

• Liu, Zheng. 2024. ‘Concealment and Secrecy: The Transmission of Yijing and Divination Techniques in Contemporary China’. Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices (RENSEP) (blog). 2024.

• Liu, Zheng. 2024. ‘Coping with Changes: Fathoming the Cosmos through the Yijing Tradition’. Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices (RENSEP) (blog). 2024.

• Marino, Davide. 2024. ‘Chinese Academia and “Western Esotericism”: Why Should We Care?’ CAS-E Blog (blog). 23 December 2024.

• Menzel, Birgit. 2024. ‘Translation and the Study of Esotericism’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 28 February 2024.

• Mozias, Ilia. 2024. ‘The Shades of Emptiness: The Alchemical Teaching of the Master Wei Yao 魏堯’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 5 February 2024.

• Noor, Farish. 2024. ‘The Uses of Magic: Examining the Many Uses and Meanings of “Magic” in Colonial-Era Anthropological Studies’. CAS-E Blog (blog).

• Razif, Nurul Huda Mohd. 2024. ‘Enemies from Within: Love Magic & Intra-Female Violence in Malay Polygyny’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 9 July 2024.

• Romberg, Raquel. 2024. ‘In Anticipation of a Special Guest: Michael Taussig (Professor Emeritus Columbia University) Will Be a CAS-E Distinguished Fellow’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 30 September 2024.

• Schlieter, Jens. 2024. ‘Esoteric Dimensions of Buddhist Meditation: Reaching Out to Transform Other People’s Minds’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 26 August 2024.

• Stoller, Paul. 2024. ‘Healing Stories’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 9 July 2024.

• Taussig. 2024. ‘Thoughts on a Lecture Institute for Advanced Study, Erlangen on 22 October, 2024’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 4 November 2024.

• Thimm, Viola. 2024. ‘“Super-Power” in the Grave: Something Superstitious or Rational?’ CAS-E Blog (blog). 4 November 2024.

• Wright, Pablo. 2024. ‘Ethnographic Travelogues Through the Argentinian Chaco Contemporary Shamanism: Between Healing, Power, and Tradition’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 27 May 2024.

• Zander, Helmut. 2024. ‘Globalisation of Anthroposophy’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 4 November 2024.

2023

• Abbasi, Maryam. 2023. ‘Transgressing Boundaries: Digital as a Space for Esoteric Practices’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 24 February 2023.

• Aschenbrenner, Lina. 2023. ‘We Should All Learn Kōkua and Kāko‘o’. Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge (blog). 26 September 2023.

• Bastos, Cecilia. 2023. ‘Processes of Production and Transmission of Meanings in the Construction of the Yogic and Meditative Ethos’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 21 December 2023.

• Centore, Andrea. 2023. ‘The Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 3 February 2023.

• Chophel, Dendup. 2023. ‘Poeisis of Co-Existence: Bridging “Orientational” Divide in a Bhutanese Village’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 18 July 2023.

• Errichiello, Mariano. 2023. ‘The Gift of the Last Magi’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 17 February 2023.

• Flaminia, Pischedda. 2023. ‘From Numerical Cyphers to Symbolic Lines: Exploring the Process of Graphic Standardisation within the Shuzi Gua Corpus’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 19 June 2023.

• Gesterkamp, Lennert. 2023. ‘Creating Daoism: The Fangdao Yulu and Daoist Esoteric Practices in the Republican Period’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 3 March 2023.

• Graw, Knut. 2023. ‘Toñaa Lom – It Is True: Divination and Dialogue’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 7 June 2023.

• Gyimesi, Julia. 2023. ‘Family Constellation Therapy in the Context of Esotericism’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 22 November 2023.

• Hayes, Kelly E. 2023. ‘Imagined Worlds and the Aesthetics of Spectacle: The Valley of the Dawn and the British Coronation’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 12 July 2023.

• Herrmans, Isabell. 2023. ‘On Knowing and Not-Knowing Spirits in Indonesian Borneo’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 25 January 2023.

• Hirmer, Monika. 2023. ‘Tantra Goes West: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Encounters, Centre–Margin Dynamics and an Insidious Paradox’. Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices (RENSEP) (blog). 17 November 2023.

• Keith, Edward Cantú. 2023. ‘Analyzing “Occult” as an Emic Term in South Asian Sources of Modern Yoga’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 12 June 2023.

• Lackner, Michael. 2023. ‘The Status of Esoteric Practices in Present-Day Taiwan: From “Esoteric” to “Exoteric”?’ CAS-E Blog (blog). 14 August 2023.

• Liu, Zheng. 2023. ‘An Insider or an Academic: Researching Divination in Contemporary China’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 14 November 2023.

• Nehring, Andreas. 2023. ‘Alternative Rationalities and the Reinvention of Tradition – Vedic Science and the Agnihotra-Fire Ritual’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 6 November 2023.

• Otto, Bernd-Christian. 2023. ‘Dancing to the Tree of Life: An Ethnography of a Neo-Amerindian Movement’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 6 September 2023.

• Ozhiganova, Anna. 2023. ‘Miraculous Water Babies: Late-Soviet Implications of the New Age Dolphinist Myth’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 2 August 2023.

• Palumbo, Antonello. 2023. ‘The Buddhist Eschatological Crisis in Fifth-Century China and Its Consequences: Sacred History, Collective Destiny, and Their Manipulation’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 27 January 2023.

• Rivera, Juan. 2023. ‘Https://Cas-e.de/2024/01/08/Ghanaian-Traditional-Religious-Divination-and-American-Celebrity-in-New-York-City/’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 21 December 2023.

• Romberg, Raquel. 2023. ‘Looking Back at the CAS-E Conference “The Politics of Authenticity in Esoteric Practices,” November 15-17, 2023’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 12 December 2023.

• Simons, Aleksandrs. 2023. ‘A Case Study of Xuantong Dashu《玄通大书》–The Great Book of Mystery: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Yi Fate’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 14 August 2023.

• Stoller, Paul. 2023. ‘Searching for the Wings of the Wind in New York City’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 3 May 2023.

• Stoller, Paul. 2023. ‘Sunset Reflections on Identity and the Life-Course: Lessons from West Africa’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 10 February 2023.

2022

• Casey, Conerly. 2022. ‘Relational Ontologies of Illness, and the Nigerian Sahel’. CAS-E Blog (blog). 2 December 2022.

Exhibitions

• Stoller, Paul. 2023, September 29 – 2024, December 1. ‘Surrounded by the Spirits: Paul Stoller and the Songhay Journey towards Wellbeing’. Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, West Chester University.