Henry Corbin as Knight of the Temple
in: Hadi Fakhoury (ed.), New Perspectives on Henry Corbin, Palgrave MacMillan / Springer: Cham 2025, 211-235.
Henry Corbin's involvement in Freemasonry and various Neo-Templar Orders during the final decade of his life is among the most seriously neglected dimensions of his life and oeuvre. Based partly on archive materials that have not been previously explored, I try to tell the story of how Corbin's attempted to join an intimate esoteric "sodality" that should be not of this world and yet present in this world.
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.
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.
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.