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New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought

A major academic study arguing that New Age religion is the secularized outcome of Renaissance Western esotericism filtered through nineteenth-century occult syntheses.

Author: Wouter Hanegraaff
Type: Book
Written: 1996
Edition: 1998
Publisher: Brill issued the 1996 original; the 1998 edition was published by State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), not Brill
Language: English
Tradition: Comparative
Identifiers: ISBN9004106952 / 9789004106956 (Brill hardback 1996); 0791438546 / 9780791438541 (SUNY Press 1998), OCLC35229227