Monographs

Egil Asprem (2014). The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939. Numen Book Series. Leiden: Brill.

Egil Asprem (2012). Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

 

Edited Volumes

Egil Asprem & Kennet Granholm, eds. (2013). Contemporary Esotericism. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd. [front matter] [bibliography]

 

Journal Articles

Taves, A, E. Asprem, and E. Ihm. (2018, forthcoming) “Psychology, Meaning Making, and the Study of Worldviews: Beyond Religion and Non-Religion.” Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (special issue). DOI: 10.1037/rel0000201.

Asprem, E. (2017). “Explaining the Esoteric Imagination: Towards a Theory of Kataphatic Practice.” Aries 17:1, 17-50.

Asprem, E. and M. A. Davidsen. (2017). “Editor’s Introduction: What Cognitive Science Offers the Study of Esotericism.” Aries 17:1, 1-15.

Taves, A. and E. Asprem. (2017). “Experience as Event: Event Cognition and the Study of (Religious) Experience.” Religion, Brain, & Behavior 7:1, 43-62.

Asprem, E. (2016). “How Schrödinger’s Cat Became a Zombie: On the Epidemiology of Science-Based Representations in Popular and Religious Contexts.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 28:2, 113-140.

Asprem, E. (2016). “Reverse-Engineering ‘Esotericism’: How to Prepare a Complex Cultural Concept for the Cognitive Science of Religion.” Religion 46:2, 158-185. DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2015.1072589.

Asprem, E. (2015). “The Disenchantment of Problems: Musings on a Cognitive Turn in Intellectual History.” Journal of Religion in Europe 8:3-4, 305-320. [Response to review symposium on The Problem of Disenchantment.]

Asprem, E. and A. Dyrendal. (2015). “Conspirituality Reconsidered: How Surprising and How New Is the Confluence of Spirituality and Conspiracy Theory?” Journal of Contemporary Religion 30:3, 367-382.

Fleming, S.J., E. Asprem, and A. Taves. (2015). “Refiner’s Fire and the Yates Thesis: Hermeticism, Esotericism, and the History of Christianity.” Journal of Mormon History 41:4, 209-220.

Asprem, E. (2015). “Dis/Unity of Knowledge: Models for the Study of Modern Esotericism and Science”. Numen 62:5-6.

Asprem, E. (2014).  “Die blinden Flecken der Entzauberung der Welt: Naturwissenschaft, Parapsychologie, und „natürliche Theologie“ im frühen 20. Jahrhundert.” Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 14, 141-158.

Asprem, E. (2014). “Beyond the West: Towards a New Comparativism in the Study of Esotericism”. Correspondences: Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism 2:1 , 3-33.

Asprem, E. & Asbjørn Dyrendal. (2013). “Sorte brorskap, mørke korrespondanser og frelsende avsløringer. Konspirasjonsteori som esoterisk diskurs”. Din: Tidsskrift for religion og kultur 1 (2013).

Asprem, E. (2011). “The Birth of Counterjihadist Terrorism: Reflections on some Unspoken Dimensions of 22 July 2011.” Editorial feature, Pomegranate, 13:1, 17-32.

Asprem, E. (2011). “Pondering Imponderables: Occultism in the mirror of late classical physics.” Aries 11.2: 129-165.

Asprem, E. (2010). “A Nice Arrangement of Heterodoxies: William McDougall and the Professionalization of Psychical Research.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 46:2, 123-143.

Asprem, E. (2009). “På epleslang i kunnskapens tre: En kritisk drøfting av teori i nyere esoterismeforskning.” Din: Tidsskrift for religion og kultur, Vol. 2-3, 5-27.

Asprem, E. (2008). “Magic Naturalized? Negotiating Science and Occult Experience in Crowley’s ’Scientific Illuminism.” Aries 8:2, 139-165.

Asprem, E. (2008). “False, Lying Spirits and Angels of Light: Ambiguous Mediation in Dr Rudd’s Treatise on Angel Magic.” Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 3:1, 54-80.

Asprem, E. (2008). “Heathens up North: Politics, Polemics, and Contemporary Paganism in Norway.” The Pomegranate 10.1: 42-69.

Asprem, E. (2007; published summer 2008). “Én vilje, hinsides godt og ondt: Etikk og livssyn for det Nye Aeon.” Din: Tidsskrift for religion og kultur 4, 23-42.

Asprem, E. (2007). “Kabbalah Recreata: Reception and Adaptation of Kabbalah in Modern Occultism.” The Pomegranate International Journal for Pagan Studies 9:2, 132-153.

Asprem, E. (2006). “Thelema og ritualmagi – med magi som livsholdning i moderne vestlig esoterisme.” Chaos 46, 113-137.

 

Selected Book Chapters

Asprem, E., and A. Taves. (Forthcoming, 2018). “To Our Critics.” In Brad Stoddard, ed., Method Today: Beyond Description and Hermeneutics in Religious Studies Scholarship. London: Equinox. [Response to invited commentaries on "Explanation and the Study of Religion"].

Asprem, E., and A. Taves. (Forthcoming, 2018). “Explanation and the Study of Religion.” In Brad Stoddard, ed., Method Today: Beyond Description and Hermeneutics in Religious Studies Scholarship. London: Equinox.

Taves, A. and E. Asprem. (Forthcoming, 2018). “Scientific Worldview Studies: A Programmatic Proposal.” In A. K. Petersen, I. S. Gilhus, L. H. Martin, J. S. Jensen, & J. Sørensen (eds.), A New Synthesis: Cognition, Evolution, and History in the Study of Religion. Leiden: Brill.

Asprem, E. (2017). “‘Logaeth q consibra a caosg’: The Development of Modern Enochian Angel Magic.” In: Edward Bever and Randall Styers (eds.), Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization. University of Pensylvania Press.

Asprem, E. (2016). “The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O.” In: The Cambridge Handbook of Mysticism and Western Esotericism. Edited by Glen Magee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Asprem, E. (2015). “The Society for Psychical Research”. In: The Occult World, pp. 266-274. Edited by Christopher Partridge. Routledge.

Asprem, E. (2015). “Science and the Occult”. In: The Occult World, pp. 710-719. Edited by Christopher Partridge. Routledge.

Asprem, E. (2015). “Contemporary Ritual Magic”. In: The Occult World, pp. 382-395. Edited by Christopher Partridge. Routledge.

Asprem, E. (2015). “Intermediary Beings”. In: The Occult World, pp. 646-658. Edited by Christopher Partridge. Routledge.

Asprem, E. & Kennet Granholm (2013). “Introduction”. In: Contemporary Esotericism, 1-24. Edited by Egil Asprem & Kennet Granholm. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd.

Asprem, E. & Kennet Granholm (2013). “Constructing Esotericisms: Sociological, Historical, and Critical Approaches to the Invention of Tradition.” In: Contemporary Esotericism, 25-48. Edited by Egil Asprem & Kennet Granholm. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd.

Asprem, E. (2013). “Psychic Enchantments of the Educated Classes: The Paranormal and the Ambiguities of Disenchantment.” In: Contemporary Esotericism, 330-350. Edited by Egil Asprem & Kennet Granholm. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd.

Asprem, E. (2013). “Theosophical Attitudes towards Science: Past and Present.” In: Handbook of the Theosophical Current, 405-428. Edited by Olav Hammer and Mikael Rothstein. Leiden: Brill.

Asprem, E. (2010). “Parapsychology: Naturalising the Supernatural, Re-Enchanting Science.” In: Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science,633-670. Edited by Olav Hammer and James R. Lewis. Leiden: Brill.

 

Selected Reviews:

Asprem, E. (2015). Review of: Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic (eds.), Occultism in a Global Perspective, Durham, Acumen Publishing Ltd., 2013. In: Numen 62.2-3: 365-368.

Asprem, E. (2014). Review of: Arthur Versluis, Lee Irwin, Melinda Phillips (eds.), Esotericism, Religion, and Politics, Minneapolis, MI: New Cultures Press 2012. In: Aries 14.2: 247-252.

Asprem, E. (2014). Review of: Michael Stausberg (ed.), Religionswissenschaft, Berlin & Boston, Walter De Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 2012. In: Din – Tidsskrift for Religion og Kultur 1 (2014).

Asprem, E. (2015). “Patterns of Magicity: A Review of Defining Magic.” Correspondences 3: 127.138. [Review article on Michael Stausberg and Bernd-Christian Otto (eds.), Defining Magic: A Reader, Acumen, 2013. First published in three parts on Heterodoxology.com, 2014].

Asprem, E. (2012). Review of: Heather Wolffram, The Stepchildren of Science: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, c. 1870-1939 (Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine; Amsterdam, NY: Editions Rodopi 2009). In: Aries 12.2, 281-302.

Asprem, E. (2011). Review of: Tore Ahlbäck and Björn Dahla (eds.), Western Esotericism. Based on Papers Read at the Symposium on Western Esotericism, Held at Åbo, Finland, on 15-17 August 2007. Åbo: Donner Institute, 2008. In: Aries 11.2.

 Asprem, E. (2011). Review of: Mark S. Morrisson, Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007. In: Aries 11.1.

Asprem, E. (2010). Review of: Dave Evans, The History of British Magic After Crowley: Kenneth Grant, Amado Crowley, Chaos Magic, Satanism, Lovecraft, The Left Hand Path, Blasphemy and Magical Morality, n.p.: Hidden Publishing 2007. In: Aries 10.2: 267-271.