Warum lieben wir Magie, Dr. Bernd Christian Otto?
Montag, 26. Mai 2025. Die beliebtesten Traumreisen auf Entspannung wirkt tragen magische Titel: Der Magische Wintergarten, Magie der Erde, Der Magische Wunderladen. Aber warum ist das so? Warum zieht uns das Wort Magie so sehr an – auch als Erwachsene? Und warum hatte ich als Journalistin gleichzeitig oft das Bedürfnis, mich davon abzugrenzen? Weiter zum Interview hier.
CAS-E Newsletter 2025/02
Daoist Internal Alchemy and Science in Contemporary Taiwan
Workshop organized by CAS-E Fellow Prof. Fabrizio Pregadio. July 10-11, 2025, CAS-E, Big Seminar Room in D1, Hartmannstr. 14, Erlangen Open to the public For information: fabrizio.pregadio@fau.de This workshop addresses a subject barely explored in Western-language scholarship: the modernization and “scientization” of the Daoist practice of Internal Alchemy (Neidan) in contemporary Taiwan. […]
Ownership and Hidden Knowledges in Indigenous South America and Beyond: Human and Non-Human Sounds, Images, and Bodies
Workshop organized by CAS-E Alumnus Dr. Juan Rivera In collaboration with: Prof. Dr. Cecilie Odegaard (University of Bergen) June 12–13, 2025, CAS-E, Big Seminar Room in D1, Hartmannstr. 14, Erlangen For participation and other information: jjriveraandia@gmail.com This workshop is dedicated to the comparative exploration of hidden knowledges and ritual practices in four dimensions of life […]
Reflection upon “Dreamcraft in the Malay Art World”
By Douglas Stephen Farrer Living in Singapore and Malaysia for nine years (1998-2007) I researched Malay mysticism for a doctoral thesis in anthropology at the National University of Singapore (Farrer 2009). Visiting the beautiful gardens of political author S. H. Alattas in Janda Baik, Malaysia, at the fin de siècle, I stumbled across a variant […]
The Digital as a Space for Esoteric Practices: An Anthropological Study of Esoteric Practices in Contemporary Iran
CAS-E Associated Scholar Maryam Abbasi investigates the digital as a space for esoteric practices in her project at the Institute of Sociology, Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The project, commenced in February 2024, culminates in the publication of a monograph on esoteric practices in contemporary […]
Lecture Series Summer 2025
Lecture Series Summer Semester 2025 with Abstracts
Steiner 2025 Vortragsreihe / Steiner 2025 Lecture Series von / by CAS-E Associated Scholar Dr. Diana Lunkwitz
Die Vortragsreihe, organisiert von dem Research on Anthroposophy Network (RAN), ist dem 100. Jahrestag von Rudolf Steiners (1861–1925) Tod gewidmet. In der Reihe wird zuerst die Relevanz und Aktualität der Forschung zur Anthroposophie und Person Steiners vorgestellt und diskutiert. Alle Vorträge bieten dann sowohl Einführungen als auch vertiefende Fragestellungen und Diskussionen zu zentralen und aktuellen […]
The Resilience of Magic in Modernity | CAS-E Podcast | Episode 2
The second CAS-E podcast was produced on October 7, 2024. Under the moderation of Dr. Bernd-Christian Otto (bernd-christian.otto@fau.de), Prof. Judith Noble (Arts University Plymouth), Prof. Marco Pasi (Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, Amsterdam) and Andrea Centore (Co-founder of the Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices) discussed various topics […]
