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Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation is a 2009 book by Mitch Horowitz published by Bantam Books.The book is focused on the role that new religious movements play in the history of the United States; Horowitz argues that these movements, often marginalized or ignored by mainstream culture, played a substantial role in shaping American society.
From 1986 to 1990 members of the Hermetic Academy participated in panels at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion under the rubric of the "Esotericism and Perennialism Group". [9] By 1994, Faivre could comment that the academic study of Western esotericism had taken off in France, Italy, England and the United States, but he ...
Helen Parsons Smith (1910-2003), American occultist and book editor, wife of John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons who married Wilfred Talbot Smith after Parson's death. [46] Israel Regardie (1907–1985), occult writer, magician, pupil of Aleister Crowley [47] C. F. Russell (1897–1987), American occultist and founder of the magical order G.B.G. [48]
Author Mitch Horowitz in Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped our Nation writes that rather than “seeing mystical ideas as a means to narcissistic power or moral freedom ...
Versluis did his Ph.D research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His thesis Ex oriente lux: American Transcendentalism and the Orient (1990) [web 3] was published in 1993 as American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions. [web 4]
Mitch Horowitz (born November 23, 1965) is an American author, publisher, speaker, podcaster, and television host specializing in occult and esoteric themes. A frequent writer and speaker on religion and metaphysics in print and on television, radio, and online, Horowitz’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, [1] The Washington Post, [2] The Wall Street Journal, [3] Time, [4] and CNN ...
A scholar's discipline is commonly defined and recognized by a university faculty. ... Native American religions; Gnosticism; Occult; ... American studies.
Helen Berger, then an assistant professor at Boston University, first became involved in the study of the Pagan movement in October 1986, when she gave a series of public lectures on the subject of the historical witch trials of New England at the Boston Public Library.