Rejected Knowledge... So you mean that esotericists are the losers of history?

Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Peter J. Forshaw & Wouter J. Hanegraaff (eds.), Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism, Amsterdam University Press 2019, 145-152.

If Western esotericism is referred to as "rejected knowledge," does this mean we are complaining about the field being marginal and ignored? To answer that question, I argue we need to look at the status of esotericism in the context of academic identity politics.

La religione e l'immaginazione storica

Mondi 1 (2019), 3-31.

This is the Italian translation of an article originally published in English in 2017 (see below).