FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE: INTRODUCTION TO ESOTERICISM
Online Winter ZOOM Course - Monday 20 January - Friday 31 January 2025
Course information can be found here: Forbidden Knowledge: Introduction to Esotericism - University of Amsterdam
ENROLLMENT DEADLINE: Sunday 8 December 2024
Academic Directors & Instructors: Dr. J. Christian Greer and Brennan Kettelle RMA
Guest Lecturers: Dr. Marco Pasi, Prof. Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff, and others to be announced
Open to all curious people!
During online sessions and in guided self-study, classes, students will make use of primary sources, as well as secondary literature that clarify the way in which esoteric ideas have circulated and continue to circulate in both mainstream culture and more marginal contexts. Having completed this online winter programme, students will have acquired a solid overview of the main moments and movements related to the study of Western esotericism, both thematically and historically.
If you're interested in scholarly inquiry into the esoteric and the occult, but don't know where to start, then this programme is ideal for you. Participants from diverse backgrounds from around the world will join us online to study these topics in depth, and introduce each other to varying perspectives, while also locating esotericism within a historical and contemporary scholarly tradition.
Our investigation into representations of the esoteric and the occult will go beyond the written word to include film, music, and graphic novels, as we explore together the important movements in esotericism in the past and reflect on how it manifests itself today, in the present. Offered by the University of Amsterdam's Graduate School of Social Sciences Video Production: Music by Daniel P. Shea, end production by Stephanie Shea of Rejected Religion