Hermès, l'herméneutique et les science humaines: Écouter les sources dans la recherche sur l'ésotérisme
in: Léo Bernard, Tom Fischer, Nathan Fraikin, Damien Karbovnik, Piero Latino, Agnès Parmentier & Mariano Villalba (eds.), Recherches francophones sur l'ésotérisme (II): Sciences et ésotérisme, Agorà & Co 2025, 23-52.
This is the French translation (by Agnès Parmentier) of a keynote lecture I gave at the FRÉSO conference in May 2023. The original English version can be found on my blog Creative Reading.
Here, There & Everywhere: Esoteric Practices and the Global Agenda
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 37 (2025), 300-314.
A critical discussion of the "global agenda" in the study of esotericism, with special reference to recent proposals by Michael Bergunder and Julian Strube. I argue that their approach, while inspired by the best intentions, is unconvincing on a theoretical level and unintendedly Eurocentric. The new CAS-E project is more successful in avoiding these problems.
Eranos and the Arts
Religiographies 4:1 (2015)
Editor's Introduction to a special issue "The Eranos Experience: Spirituality and the Arts in a Comparative Perspective." With reference to Gadamerian hermeneutics, I argue that it could make sense to think of the study of religion nog as a science but as an art.