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WOUTERJ.HANEGRAAFF

CURRICULUMVITAE

DATESEDITORIALACTIVITIESCONFERENCEORGANIZATION

ACADEMICPARTICIPATION(LECTURES)

OTHERACTIVITIES

DATES

Born10april1961inAmsterdam(theNetherlands). 19821987:MunicipalConservatoryofZwolle(classicalguitar).

19861990:UniversityofUtrecht,FacultyofLetters.ProgramAlgemeneLetteren(Cultural History); specializationThe role ofalternative spiritual movements in

20thcenturyculturalhistory.Diploma(cumlaude)in1990. 19921996:UniversityofUtrecht,FacultyofTheology,dept.StudyofReligion.Ph.D.

ResearchAssociate.

30November1995:dissertationdefense(cumlaude).Titledissertation:NewAgeReligionandWesternCulture:EsotericismintheMirrorofSecularThought.

19961999: University of Utrecht, Faculty of Theology, dept. Study of Religion.Postdoctoralresearcher.

1 sept. 1999present: University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, dept.Theology&ReligiousStudies.FullprofessorHistoryofHermeticphilosophyandrelatedCurrents.

2006:ElectedMemberoftheRoyalDutchAcademyofSciences(KNAW)

EDITORIALACTIVITIES

Journals Editor(withA.FaivreandNicholasGoodrickClarke)Aries:JournalfortheStudyof

WesternEsotericism,Brill(20012010). EuropeanEditorialBoardReligion,AcademicPress(1999present) EditorialBoardNumen,Brill(20022005) EditorialBoardEsotericahttp://www.esoteric.msu.edu(1999present) EditorialAdvisoryBoardJournalofContemporaryReligion,Carfax(2001present) EditorialAdvisoryBoardNovaReligio,UniversityofCaliforniaPress(2000present) EditorialBoardReligionCompass,SectionNewReligions, http://www.blackwellcompass.com/subject/religion/(2007present)

EditorialBoardReligieuzeBewegingeninNederland,VUUitgeverij(19931996)BookSeries Editor StudiesintheHistoryofReligions (NumenBookSeries), RoyalE.J.Brill,

Leiden/Boston/Kln(20002006).


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Editor(withG.W.Trompf,UniversityofSydney)Gnostica:Texts&Interpretations,Peeters,Louvain(19972001).

EditorAriesBookSeries:TextsandStudiesinWesternEsotericism,Brill(20062010).

Books Editor (withR.Kloppenborg)FemaleStereotypesinReligiousTraditions,E.J.Brill:

Leiden1995.

Editor (withR.vandenBroek)Gnosis and Hermeticism fromAntiquity toModernTimes,SUNYPress:Albany1998.

Editor (withA. Faivre)Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion, Peeters:Louvain1998.

Editor (with R.Caron, J. Godwin and J.L. VieillardBaron), sotrisme, gnoses, etimaginairesymbolique:MlangesoffertsAntoineFaivre,Peeters:Louvain2001.

Editor(incollaborationwithA.Faivre,R.vandenBroek,J.P.Brach)DictionaryofGnosisandWesternEsotericism,Brill:Leiden/Boston2005.

Editor(withJeffreyJ.Kripal),HiddenIntercourse:ErosandSexualityintheHistoryofWestern Esotericism, Brill: Leiden / Boston 2008 [U.S. Paperback: FordhamUniversityPress:NewYork2010].

Editor(withJoycePijnenburg),HermesintheAcademy:TenYearsStudyofWesternEsotericism at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press:Amsterdam2009.

CONFERENCEORGANIZATION

International Summer University Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity toModernTimes,Amsterdam1994(withRoelofvandenBroek).

Symposium Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion, XVIIth CongressInternationalAssociation fortheHistoryofReligions (I.A.H.R.),MexicoCity1995

(withAntoineFaivre&KarenClaireVoss).

Symposium Western Esotericism and Jewish Mysticism, XVIIIth CongressInternationalAssociationfortheHistoryofReligions(I.A.H.R),Durban,SouthAfrika

2000(withJanA.M.Snoek) ConferenceTheVarietiesofEsotericExperience ,EsalenInstitute(California),812

March2004[withJeffreyJ.Kripal]

ConferenceHidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in Western Esotericism, EsalenInstitute(California),38April2005[withJeffreyJ.Kripal]

Conference Hidden Truths, Novel Truths: Fiction in Western Esotericism, EsalenInstitute(California),1419may2006[withJeffreyJ.Kripal]

ConferenceSecretStates: Altered States ofConsciousness and Western Esotericism,EsalenInstitute(California),1417May2007[withJeffreyJ.Kripal]


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ACADEMICPARTICIPATION(LECTURES)

1990

XVIthCongressInternationalAssociationfortheHistoryofReligions(I.A.H.R.),Rome

1990.[paperADynamicalApproachtotheProblemofPostGnosticGnosticism].

1992

CESNUR(CenterforStudyofNewReligiousMovements)InternationalConferenceLedfimagique,Lyon1992[paperTheProblemofPostGnosticGnosticism].

1993

CESNURInternationalConferenceNewReligionsandtheNewEurope,London1993

[nopaper]. InternationalConferenceReligionandPostmodernity,Bristol1993[nopaper].

1994

Conference Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap (NGG), Tilburg

1994 [invited lecture Frazer als (aan)stichter van een nieuwe religie: De

jaarfeesteninWicca]. AmsterdamSummerUniversityGnosisandHermeticismfromAntiquitytoModern

Times,Amsterdam1994[2papers:RomanticismandtheEsotericConnectionandTheNewAgeMovementandtheEsotericTradition].

1995

XVIIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R.),

MexicoCity1995[paperOntheConstructionofEsotericTraditions].

1996

InternationalConferenceNatureReligionToday:WesternPaganism,Shamanismand

Esotericisminthe1990s,UniversityofLancaster1996[invitedlectureReflectionsonNewAgeandtheSecularizationofNature].

CESNURInternationalCongressSocietiesandtheNewReligiousPluralism,Montreal1996[paperEmanuelSwedenborgandWesternEsotericism].

Colloque Universit de Paris III/Sorbonne Nouvelle Symboles et mythes dans lesmouvementsinitiatiqueset sotriques(17me 20mesicle):filiationsetemprunts ,

Paris1996[invitedlectureLafindelsotrisme?Lemouvementdunouvelgeetlaquestiondusymbolismereligieux].


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1997

PalladianAcademy:1stSymposium,Novanta(Itali)1997[invitedlecture:Justinus

KernerandtheSeeressofPrevorst]. UniversitdeLausanne,Dept.interfacultairedhistoireetdesciencesdesreligions,

Zwitserland, 1997 [invited public lecture The New Age Movement and the

SecularizationofWesternEsotericism].

InternationalconferenceReligionintheMaking:TheEmergenceoftheSciencesofReligion. Research Center Religion and Society, Amsterdam 1997 [invited paperTheEmergenceoftheAcademicScienceofMagic:TheOccultPhilosophyinTylorandFrazer].

International conference Magic and Modernity. Research Center Religion andSociety,Amsterdam1997[invitedpaperSympathyortheDevil:RenaissanceMagicandtheAmbivalenceofIdols].

CESNURInternationalCongressMagic,Millennium,andNewReligiousMovements ,Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 1997 [invited public lecture The New Age

Movement]. ColloquiumRudolfAgricolaInstituut,UniversityofGroningen,1997[invitedlecture

NewAgeReligionandSecularization].

American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, San Francisco 1997 [paperTheosophyandMagiaNaturalis].

1998

SISWO (i.c.w. NVMC/NSV), 8e Sociaal wetenschappelijke Studiedagen , Amsterdam

1998[paperHowMagicSurvivedtheDisenchantmentoftheWorld].

1999

FryskeAkademy,1May1999[invitedlectureDeNewAgebeweging]. Huizinga Instituut, University of Amsterdam,Onttovering en betovering, 21 May

1999[invitedlectureTheSeeressofPrevorst].

Conference Hermetismus als Kulturphnomen in der frhen Neuzeit, Gttingen,October1999[nopaper].

Seminar New Age and Globalization, RENNER, Copenhagen 1617 November1999 [invited lecture Prospects for the Globalization of New Age: SpiritualImperialismversusCulturalDiversity].

American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Boston 2023 November 1999[paperBeyondtheYatesParadigm].

2000


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ReedCollege,Portland(Oregon),5April2000[invitedpubliclecture:BeyondtheYatesParadigm: The StudyofWestern EsotericismbetweenCountercultureandPostmodernComplexity].

Palladian Academy: 2nd Symposium, Graz (Austria), June 2000 [paper LodovicoLazzarelliandGiovanniMercurioCorreggio].

XVIIIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R.),Durban (South Africa),August 2000 [paper Lodovico Lazzarellis Use of JewishMysticalSources].

2001

Arizona State University, Phoenix (Arizona). Invited public lecture, 1 May 2001

[HowMagicSurvivedtheDisenchantmentoftheWorld].

Kalamazoo, 36th Congress on Medieval Studies, 36 May 2001 [paper DefusingMagic:LodovicoLazzarelliandtheWisdomofHermes].

UniversitdeLausanne.Invitedpubliclecture,11June2001[HowMagicsurvivedtheDisenchantmentoftheWorld]

CongressAutourdeloeuvredeFrancesA.Yates(1899 1981):Durveildelatraditionhermtiquelanaissancedelasciencemoderne,Paris,Sorbonne,2829sept.2001[Lafindelatraditionhermtique:FrancesYatesetLodovicoLazzarelli]

CongressThe Hermetic Imagination in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,University of California, Los Angeles, 56 October 2001 [paper Swedenborg in

OetingersHermeticImagination]. Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology III: Developing a Relational Theology,

UniversityofLouvain,69November2001[invitedpubliclectureTheDreamsof

TheologyandtheRealitiesofChristianity].

2002

Conference Secrey, Histories and Publics, Sweet Briar College (Virginia), 1517March 2002 [keynote lecture Are there Secrets in Swedenborgs Secrets of

Heaven?] CREAStudiumGenerale,ReligiestudiesUvA,Lezingenserie Dezevenhoofdzonden

endetaalvandemoraal,16april2002[lectureKuisheid:Dezuiverezonde] Voorjaarsconferentie Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap, 2002

[lectureonthefutureofthestudyofReligion]

Public lectureGraduiertenkolleg Universitt Heidelberg, Heidelberg 17 June 2002[lectureTheHermeticChristintheStreetsofRome]

SixthInternationalReuchlinCongress:ReuchlinundseineErben:Forscher,Denker,IdeologenundSpinner,Pforzheim(Germany),2023June2002 [lecture EmanuelSwedenborgandtheJews]

Palladian Academy: 3rd Symposium, Aups (France), 2428 June 2002 [lectureonparadigmsinthestudyofWesternesotericism]

2003


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ConferenceVrijmetselarijinNederland:Eenkennismakingmetdewetenschappelijkestudievaneengeheimgenootschap,org.OVN/UniversityofLeiden,14March2003[lecture De geschiedenis van de vrijmetselarij in relatie tot de studie van de

Westerseesoterie] ConferenceOntheEdgeoftheFuture:LocatingEsalenintheHistoriesofAmerican

Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Esalen Institute (California), 30 March4 April2003 [lecture Human Potential before Esalen: Visionary Techniques andExperiencesintheHistoryofWesternEsotericism]

ConferenceBeliefBeyondBoundaries:AlternativeSpiritualitiesandNewAgeStudies ,org. ASANAS, Open University, Milton Keynes (England), 30 May1 June 2003[keynotelectureSwedenborgandNewAgeReligion]

2004

ConferenceTheVarietiesofEsotericExperience ,EsalenInstitute(California),812

March 2004 [lecture Gnosis and Peak Experiences: Towards a BiographicalApproachintheStudyofWesternEsotericism]

SummerschoolModernitGnosiReligione,IstitutodiScienzeReligiose,Trento,Italy,2028September2004[lectureGnosi,esotericaetermetica,oggi]

AmericanAcademyofReligion,AnnualMeeting,SanAntonio,U.S.A.,2023November2004[lectureCantherebeonlyOne?ReflectionsonMonotheismandIdolatry]

Conference Secret Knowledge in the Enlightenment: Alchemists, Adventurers,Imposters, Spies, Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi su Descartes il Seicento,Universit degli Studi di Lecce, Italy, 34December 2004 [lecture: Kant versusSwedenborg:EnlightenmentRhetoricasaStrategyofDissimulation]

2005

XIXthCongressInternationalAssociationfortheHistoryofReligions (I.A.H.R.),Tokyo,Japan,2430March2005[lecture: ForbiddenKnowledge:AntiEsotericPolemicsandAcademicResearch]

ConferenceHidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in Western Esotericism, EsalenInstitute(California),38April2005[lecture:UndertheMantleofLove:Sexuality

andErosinMarsilioFicinoandGiordanoBruno]

Invited lecture Interdisziplinres Zentrum fr die Erforschung der EuropischenAufklrung, MartinLutherUniversitt HalleWittenberg, 14 July 2005 [lectureAbendlndischeEsoterikalsErgebnispolemischerDiskurse]

ConferenceMasonicandEsotericHeritage:ANewPerspectiveforArtandHeritagePolicies,organizedbyOVN(FoundationfortheAdvancementofAcademicResearchinto the History of Freemasonry in the Netherlands) in collaboration withsubdepartmentHistoryofHermeticPhilosophyandRelatedCurrents&Chair for

Cultural Heritage, Conservation & Restauration, University of Amsterdam, 20October2005[lecture:WesternEsotericismandtheStatusoftheImage]

InvitedLectureRiceUniversity,Houston(Texas),U.S.A.,17November2005[lecture:TheNightSideofReason:ShamanismandWesternEsotericism]


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2006

Keynote lecture at workshop Hermetism and Rationalism in an Era of Cultural

Change,UniversityofGroningen,TheNetherlands,2324February2006[lecture:What, if anything, is Hermetic Gnosis? Ways of Knowing in Renaissance

Esotericism] Conference52ndMeetingoftheRenaissanceSocietyofAmerica,SanFrancisco,2325

March2006[lecture:GiovannidaCorreggiosDeQuercu] Spring meeting of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (Nederlands

Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap), 8 april 2006 [lecture: De grotepolemiek:Westerseesoteriealsproductvandemonothestischeverbeelding]

Villa Bosch Symposia Series Knowledge and Space, First Symposium Clash ofKnowledges, RuprechtKarlsUniversitt Heidelberg, 1922 April 2006 [lecture:Reason, Faith and Gnosis: Three Knowledge Systems and their Struggle for

HegemonyintheCourseofEuropeanHistory] ConferenceHidden Truths, Novel Truths: Fiction and Western Esotericism, Esalen

Institute(California),1419May2006[lecture:FictionintheDesertoftheReal:LovecraftsCthulhuMythos]

InternationalConferenceontheHistoryofAlchemyandChymistry,ChemicalHeritageFoundation,Philadelphia, 1922July 2006 [lecture: PseudoLullianAlchemyandtheMercurialPhoenix:GiovanniMercuriodaCorreggiosDeQuercuIuliiPontificis,sivedelapidephilosophico]

Internationaler Kant Swedenborg -Worshop

, Interdisziplinres Zentrum fr die

Erforschung der Europischen Aufklrung, Forschergruppe Die Aufklrung imBezugsfeld neuzeitlicher Esoterik, Universitt HalleWittenberg, Halle, Germany,2930 august 2006 [lecture: Swedenborg aus der Sicht von Kant und der

akademischenKantForschung] Conference Die Enzyklopdie der Esoterik: Allwissenheitsmythen und

Universalwissenschaftliche Modelle in der Esoterik der Neuzeit, Herzog AugustBibliothek, Wolfenbttel, Germany, 2630 September 2006 [lecture: Magnetic

Gnosis:SomnambulismandtheQuestforAbsoluteKnowledge]

InvitedlectureattheInstitutefrGrenzgebietederPsychologieundPsychohygienee.V.(IGPP),20December2006[lecture:MagneticGnosis:Somnambulismandthe

QuestforAbsoluteKnowledge]

2007

Conference The Occult in 20th Century Russia: Metaphysical Roots of SovietCivilization,TheEuropeanAcademy,Berlin,1113March2007[invitedparticipantinclosingpanel]

Conference53rdMeetingoftheRenaissanceSocietyofAmerica ,Miami,USA,2224March2007[lecture:ThePlatonicFrenziesinFicino]

InvitedlectureUniversityofPisa,Italy,27March2007[title:EcstaticKnowledge:HermeticGnosisandPlatonicFrenziesintheWorkofFicino]

ConferenceSecretStates:AlteredStatesofConsciousnessandWesternEsotericism ,Esalen Institute, California, 1418 May 2007 [lecture: Altered States of

Knowledge:GnosisintheHermetica]


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ConferenceKabbalahandModernity,UniversityofAmsterdam,TheNetherlands,46 July2007 [lecture: TheBeginningsofOccultistKabbalah: AdolpheFranckandEliphasLvi]

Inaugural conference of the European Society for the Study of WesternEsotericism(ESSWE)ConstructingTradition:MeansandMythsofTransmissionin

Western Esotericism, Tbingen, Germany, 2022 July 2006 [lecture: WesternEsotericisminEnlightenmentHistoriography:TheCaseofJacobBrucker]

Conference Religion and Identity Politics: Acceptable Religion and its NegativeOthers, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 2325 August 2007[lecture:SuperstitionasaShiftingPolemicalConcept]

ConferenceFormsandCurrentsofWesternEsotericism,GiorgioCiniFoundations,Venice,2931october2007[lecture:TheBirthofEsotericismfromtheSpiritofProtestantism]

ConferenceVisions ofUtopia: Masonic, Religious & Esoteric, CanonburyMasonicResearch Center, 9th International Conference, London, 34 November 2007[lecture:UtopiasoftheMind]

Conference:AnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAcademyofReligion ,SanDiego,USA,1720november2007[nolecture]

2008

Lecture Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (KNAW),

Amsterdam,14January2008[lecture:SwedenborgendeandereKant:Overde

DroomvandeRedeendeGeest(en)vandeVerlichting] Conference Geheime kennis: De bijzondere archieven en bibliotheken van

maonniekeenesoterischeorganisatiesinNederland,KoninklijkeBibliotheek,Den

Haag,25January2008[lecture:Vanparticuliereverzamelingnaarbeschermdcultureelerfgoed:DeBibliothecaPhilosophicaHermeticateAmsterdam]

MiniSymposiumFilosofie en Spiritualiteit, LeidenUniversity[lecture: EsoterieentheGrandPolemicalNarrative]

Conference54thMeetingoftheRenaissanceSocietyofAmerica,Chicago,USA,35April 2008 [lecture: After Ficino and Lazzarelli: Hermetic Gnosis and PlatonicFrenziesinHeinrichCorneliusAgrippa]

ConferenceMusic and Esotericism: Art and Science of Sounds facing the OccultKnowledge, Rome, Academia Belgica, 1418 April 2008 [lecture: TheUnspeakableandtheLaw:MusicasEsotericLanguageinAntonWebern]

ConferenceThe Globalization of Ayahuasca: An Amazonian Psychoactive and itsUsers,UniversityofHeidelberg,1618May2008[lecture:AyahuascaGroupsandNetworks in the Netherlands: A Challenge to the Study of Contemporary

Religion] KabbalahandContemporarySpiritualRevival:Historical,Sociological,andCultural

Perspectives,BenGurionUniversity,Israel,2022May2008[lecture:KabbalahinGnosisMagazine(19851999)]

Biannual ConferenceAssociation for the Study of Esotericism, Charleston, USA,June2008[keynotelecture:WillErichPeuckertandtheLightofNature]

ConferenceTheMaking of theHumanities:FirstInternational Conference ontheHistoryoftheHumanities,UniversityofAmsterdam,2325October2008[lecture:

PhilosophysShadow:JacobBrucker(16961770)andtheHistoryofThought]


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Conference:AnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAcademyofReligion ,Chicago,USA,13November2008.

ConferenceEuropasvergesseneTraditionen ,VillaVignoni,Italy,1215November2008.

2009 Stichting BAK (Basis voor Actuele Kunst), Utrecht, 1 March 2009 [lecture:

Monothesmeenidolatrie]

2nd Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of WesternEsotericism (ESSWE),Strasbourg, 24 July2009 [lecture:PresidentsAddress:

PoliticsandtheStudyofWesternEsotericism] 10yearAnniversarySeminar of the chairHistory ofHermeticPhilosophy and

RelatedCurrents,UniversityofAmsterdam,28August2009[lecture:TenYears

ofStudyingandTeachingWesternEsotericism]

2010

Conference Aufklrung und Esoterik: Wege in die Moderne, InterdisziplinresZentrumfrdieErforschugnderEuropischenAufklrung(IZEA),MartinLutherUniersitt HalleWittenberg, 912 March 2010 [plenary lecture: The Notion of

OccultSciencesintheWakeoftheEnlightenment]

Conference The Rosicrucian Tradition: Past, Present & Future, BournemouthUniversity, 89May2010 [lecture: AlchemyandRosicrucianismin theScientificImagination]

EMPHASIS Seminar, University of London, 15 May 2010 [lecture: Historians ofError:TheProtestantAttackonPlatonicOrientalism]

20thQuinquennialWorldCongressoftheInternationalAssociationfortheHistoryofReligion, Toronto1521August2010 [submitted lecture:PlatonicOrientalismandWesternEsotericism]


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OTHERACTIVITIES

ChairWerkgezelschapGodsdienstwetenschapUtrecht,19941996. Founder/ChairstudygroupARIESNetherlands,19962006.

BoardmemberNederlandsGenootschapvoorGodsdienstwetenschap(NGG), from1996.

PresidentNederlandsGenootschapvoorGodsdienstwetenschap(NGG),20022006. PresidentEuropeanSocietyfortheStudyofWesternEsotericism(ESSWE),2005

present. Unit Chair Western Esotericism Group, American Academy of Religion, 2006

2009.

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