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Scientification of Religion
The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be modern. This book argues that European …
Horoscopes and Public Spheres
This volume examines the specific role of horoscopic astrology in Western culture from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Focusing on the public appearance of astrological …
Western Esotericism
Esotericism is the search for an absolute but hidden knowledge accessed through mystical vision, the mediation of higher beings, or personal experience. In Western cultural history …
Cultural History of the Soul
The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere …