A global examination of esoteric practices brings together perspectives on rituals, healing traditions, spiritual experiences, divination, and alternative systems of knowledge. The book asks how practices described as “esoteric” are understood by the communities that practice them and how researchers can study them without reducing them to simple categories of belief or superstition. Cultural context is central, allowing different traditions to be considered on their own terms while still inviting comparison. Academic and interdisciplinary in character, the volume will interest readers of anthropology, religious studies, cultural history, and scholarship on contemporary and historical forms of esotericism.

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