This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written[...]

As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities. Part One of the book provides the theoretical background and guides the reader through some of the principal debates.[...]

This volume provides a series of specific studies which further unpack and illustrate the re-enchantment and occulture theses developed in volume one. "The Re-Enchantment of the West" challenges those theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity. Spiri[...]