Further Informations:

• Christian H. Bull: The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus – The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom.
  Leiden: Brill 2018, XVI+532 pp., indices
• Christoph Elsas: Mystik in der Globalisierung.
  Diskurs und Traditionen der Chaldäischen Orakel im Kontext heutiger Religionsbegegnung. Rückfragen an Zarathustra, Gnosis, Platonismus und Augustin mit Übersetzung der Orakelfragmente und erläuternder Texte des Christen Psellos und des Hellenisten Numenios
  Berlin: EB Verlag 2017, 432 S., reiches Literaturverzeichnis, Register  — Ausführliche Rezension >

Information of the publisher
Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism. For twenty years now, the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (University of Amsterdam) has been at the forefront of international scholarship in this domain. This anniversary volume seeks to make the modern study of Western esotericism more widely known beyond specialist circles, while addressing a range of misconceptions, biases, and prejudices that still tend to surround it. Thirty major scholars in the field respond to questions about a wide range of unfamiliar ideas, traditions, practices, problems, and personalities that are central to the field. By challenging many taken-for-granted assumptions about religion, science, philosophy, and the arts, this volume demonstrates why the modern study of esotericism leads us to reconsider much that we thought we knew about the story of Western culture.