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Annual Meeting of the AAR with sessions on Western Esotericism

17-20 November 2007
Listed below is the Western Esotericism Group's Annual Meeting schedule.

Session data:


A17-124

Western Esotericism Group

Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Allison P. Coudert, University of California, Davis, Presiding

Theme: Esotericism and Transgression

Wendy Rachele Terry, University of California, Davis
"Outside the Court of Your Secrets": Marguerite Porete's Transgression

Geoffrey McVey, Miami University, Ohio
Acceptable Transgressions: Mysticism and Esotericism at the Margins

Taylor Hines, University of California, Santa Barbara
Conservative Transgression: Swedenborgian Sectarianism in Unitarian Boston

Matthew Rogers, Northwestern University
Black Magic in British Columbia

Grant H. Potts, University of Pennsylvania
Creativity, Exchange, and Institutionalization in a Ritual Magic Lodge

A18-217

New Religious Movements Group and Western Esotericism Group

Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm

Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding

Theme: Exchange and Innovation: Esotericism in New Religions

Ann Gleig, Rice University
Divine Individualism or Mystical Humanism? The Diamond Approach; American Esotericism in the 21st Century

Daniel McKanan, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
Faith in the Phalanx: Esotericism, Socialism, and the American Fourierist Movement

Stephen Wehmeyer, California State University, Northridge
Re-envisioning the Visionary: The Initiatory Art of Edith V. Tenbrink

Paul Ivey, University of Arizona
The Temple of the People: Theosophy, Socialism and Electricity at Halcyon, California


Date(s):17-20 November 2007
Location:San Diego, California
Website:http://www.aarweb.org