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Hedenborg White, M. (2024). Amy Hale, ed., Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan [Review]. Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, 24(1), 145-148
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Amy Hale, ed., Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, ISSN 1567-9896, E-ISSN 1570-0593, Vol. 24, nr 1, s. 145-148Artikel, recension (Övrigt vetenskapligt) Published
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Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Nyckelord
esotericism, western esotericism, women, gender and religion, occultism, magic
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionshistoria
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-62073 (URN)10.1163/15700593-tat00006 (DOI)001177525300005 ()
Tillgänglig från: 2023-08-23 Skapad: 2023-08-23 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-11-19Bibliografiskt granskad
Hedenborg White, M. (2024). Between Mind-Cure and Masonry: The Emergence of the Billiken. In: : . Paper presented at Esotericism and Global Visual Culture, University of Tokyo, 5–6 October..
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Between Mind-Cure and Masonry: The Emergence of the Billiken
2024 (Engelska)Konferensbidrag, Enbart muntlig presentation (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

This paper will trace the development of the Billiken, known as “The God of Things as They Ought to Be”, in early-20th-century North America, analyzing how this figure was visually marketed and consumed in the intersection between mind-cure, initiatory societies, and orientalism. Around 1907–1908, illustrator Florence Pretz created and patented the Billiken inspired by New Thought notions of spiritual solutions to worldly ailments. The Billiken subsequently enjoyed striking popularity as a “mind-cure” icon and charm doll in the 1910s–1920s. It was also adopted in more exclusive settings, such as in the Royal Order of Jesters (founded in 1911), a fraternal order that uses the Billiken as official symbol. The Billiken has visually orientalistic overtones, resembling the “Laughing Buddha” of Chinese Buddhism — linking to contemporary discourses on Asia as the source of esoteric wisdom. In her promotional persona, Pretz stressed an interest in Japan, posed in a kimono, and suggested she had been Japanese in a past life. Drawing primarily on press materials, this paper will argue that the “Billiken craze” exemplifies the visual commodification of esotericism and a spiritualized Asia and challenges distinctions between esotericism and popular magic in the early 20th century.

Nyckelord
Billiken, mind cure, New Though, esotericism, Freemasonry
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionshistoria
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-71549 (URN)
Konferens
Esotericism and Global Visual Culture, University of Tokyo, 5–6 October.
Tillgänglig från: 2024-10-10 Skapad: 2024-10-10 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-10-11Bibliografiskt granskad
Hedenborg White, M. (2024). Fire-Faith and the Gnostic Neo-Templars: Aleister Crowley’s Gnostic Catholic Mass and Its c. 1917 German Translation by Theodor Reuss. Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, 1-35
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Fire-Faith and the Gnostic Neo-Templars: Aleister Crowley’s Gnostic Catholic Mass and Its c. 1917 German Translation by Theodor Reuss
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, ISSN 1567-9896, E-ISSN 1570-0593, s. 1-35Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

The article analyses the early development of Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) Gnostic Catholic Mass and its c. 1917 German translation by Theodor Reuss (1855–1923), the founder and first international head of the initiatory fraternity Ordo Templi Orientis. Crowley’s Gnostic Mass is an influential and important example of esoteric group ritual still celebrated across the globe today. Reuss’s translated ritual holds historical interest, being the first published version of the ritual (1918) and containing a number of editorial innovations. The article discusses Crowley’s and Reuss’s collaboration and their respective masses in context, suggesting Reuss’s innovations to the Gnostic Mass shed light on his own interests in phallicism and neo-Gnosticism as well as his wish to promote Crowley’s teachings to the continental European esoteric milieu.

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Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Nyckelord
esotericism; occultism; Thelema; Aleister Crowley; Gnostic Mass; Theodor Reuss; Ordo Templi Orientis; phallism; phallicism; Freemasonry
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionshistoria
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-70681 (URN)10.1163/15700593-tat00022 (DOI)2-s2.0-85202542310 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-08-29 Skapad: 2024-08-29 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-09-17Bibliografiskt granskad
Hedenborg White, M. (2024). Gender Studies. In: Henrik Bogdan; Göran Larsson (Ed.), The Study of Religion in Sweden: Past, Present and Future. London: Bloomsbury Academic
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Gender Studies
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: The Study of Religion in Sweden: Past, Present and Future / [ed] Henrik Bogdan; Göran Larsson, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
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London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
Nyckelord
gender studies, gender and religion, study of religion, history of religions
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-66662 (URN)2-s2.0-85196604551 (Scopus ID)9781350413283 (ISBN)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-04-10 Skapad: 2024-04-10 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-08-12Bibliografiskt granskad
Hedenborg White, M. & Bogdan, H. (2024). Introduction: Aleister Crowley, the Thelemic Tradition, and the Creative Arts. Religion and the Arts, 28(1–2), 1-12
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Introduction: Aleister Crowley, the Thelemic Tradition, and the Creative Arts
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Religion and the Arts, ISSN 1079-9265, E-ISSN 1568-5292, Vol. 28, nr 1–2, s. 1-12Artikel i tidskrift, Editorial material (Övrigt vetenskapligt) Published
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Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Nyckelord
Thelema; Aleister Crowley; esotericism; Western esotericism; occultism; magic; esotericism and art
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionshistoria
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-66591 (URN)10.1163/15685292-02801001 (DOI)001222040800001 ()2-s2.0-85189291648 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-04-02 Skapad: 2024-04-02 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-09-17Bibliografiskt granskad
Hedenborg White, M. (2024). Magic in Art, Poetry, and Biography: Marjorie Cameron’s Illustrated Notebooks c. 1956–1964. Religion and the Arts, 28(1-2), 133-169
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Magic in Art, Poetry, and Biography: Marjorie Cameron’s Illustrated Notebooks c. 1956–1964
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Religion and the Arts, ISSN 1079-9265, E-ISSN 1568-5292, Vol. 28, nr 1-2, s. 133-169Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

The article analyzes four works of poetry and illustration produced by the artist, poet, and occultist Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995) in the 1950s and 1960s. Widow of rocket scientist and occultist John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952), an early follower of Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) religion Thelema, Cameron was also a friend and collaborator of Beat artist Wallace Berman (1926–1976) and avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger (1927–2023). In the 1950s and 1960s, Cameron delved deeply into Crowley’s magical writings alongside those of comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell (1904–1987). The article especially highlights how Cameron creatively adapted and re-worked the ideas of both thinkers in her artistic interpretations of her Holy Guardian Angel. A core argument of the article is that art, poetry, and esotericism were intertwined pursuits for Cameron, and that extra-textual sources (e.g., letters and biographical details) contemporary with the analyzed creative works are helpful in untangling their meaning.

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Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Nyckelord
Thelema; Aleister Crowley; esotericism; occultism; Marjorie Cameron; esotericism and art; Beat movement
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionshistoria
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-66590 (URN)10.1163/15685292-02801005 (DOI)001222040800008 ()2-s2.0-85189475869 (Scopus ID)
Forskningsfinansiär
Vetenskapsrådet, 2018-00439
Tillgänglig från: 2024-04-02 Skapad: 2024-04-02 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-07-31Bibliografiskt granskad
Hedenborg White, M. (2024). The Rose is Wedded Unto the Tree: Natural and Unnatural Landscapes in the Art and Poetry of Marjorie Cameron. In: : . Paper presented at 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, 19-23 August 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden.. European Association for the Study of Religions
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>The Rose is Wedded Unto the Tree: Natural and Unnatural Landscapes in the Art and Poetry of Marjorie Cameron
2024 (Engelska)Konferensbidrag, Enbart muntlig presentation (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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European Association for the Study of Religions, 2024
Nyckelord
esotericism; occultism; Marjorie Cameron; Thelema; paganism; Neopaganism; witch; witchcraft
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionshistoria
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-70699 (URN)
Konferens
21st Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, 19-23 August 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Tillgänglig från: 2024-08-29 Skapad: 2024-08-29 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-09-03Bibliografiskt granskad
Hedenborg White, M. (2024). Western Esotericism. In: Birgit Heller & Edith Franke (Ed.), Religion und Geschlecht: . Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Western Esotericism
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Religion und Geschlecht / [ed] Birgit Heller & Edith Franke, Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024, s. -339Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

This chapter provides a condensed and selective history of notions of gender and sexuality in (Western) esotericism, a complex of genealogically related religious currents originating in late antiquity, which emphasize an intuitive, experiential knowledge ("gnosis") beyond faith and rational enquiry. In the chapter, it is argued that the complex, hierarchical and interlinked cosmologies espoused by esotericists from antiquity until today challenge modern understandings of biological sexual dimorphism. Through the idea of the individual human being as a microcosmic reflection of creation, notions of a dual-gendered Godhead have coincided with ideas of both sacred sexuality and divine androgyny, and esoteric notions of spiritual ascent have often been gendered (whether advancement is viewed in terms of gender balance, transcendence, or in honing masculinity or femininity specifically). However, the symbolic and social levels do not always coincide. Esoteric thinkers who have valorized the divine feminine have not always advocated for egalitarian male-female relationships. Similarly, despite the preponderance of symbolism related to gender transcendence in historical esotericism it is only in the twentieth century that beliefs in sacred androgyny have been articulated as part of a political mobilization for queer, trans, or intersex rights.

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Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2024
Nyckelord
esotericism, Western esotericism, gender, sexuality, occultism, magic
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionshistoria
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-66318 (URN)10.1515/9783110697407-038 (DOI)978-3-11-069340-9 (ISBN)978-3-11-069740-7 (ISBN)978-3-11-069748-3 (ISBN)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-03-13 Skapad: 2024-03-13 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-03-13Bibliografiskt granskad
Hedenborg White, M. (2023). "Be Thou Hadit, My Secret Centre": Gender and Egyptosophy in Aleister Crowley's Thelema. In: International Theosophical History Conference 2023, "The Reception of Egypt and the Ancients in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents", Alexandria, Egypten, 13–14 oktober 2023.: . Paper presented at International Theosophical History Conference 2023, "The Reception of Egypt and the Ancients in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents"..
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>"Be Thou Hadit, My Secret Centre": Gender and Egyptosophy in Aleister Crowley's Thelema
2023 (Engelska)Ingår i: International Theosophical History Conference 2023, "The Reception of Egypt and the Ancients in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents", Alexandria, Egypten, 13–14 oktober 2023., 2023Konferensbidrag, Enbart muntlig presentation (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

This paper analyses the reception of Egyptian antiquity in the central sacred text of the religion Thelema, founded by the British occultist Aleister Crowley. In spring 1904, Crowley was sojourning in Cairo when his wife Rose surprised him by channeling a message from the god Horus. At Crowley’s behest, Rose substantiated her revelation by leading Crowley to an offertory tablet in the Boulaq museum, showing a Theban priest presenting offerings to the god Ra-Horakhty (a melding of Horus and Ra) alongside the goddess Nut and the winged solar disk (Horus Behdety/Horus of Edfu). On April 8–10, Crowley then transcribed a revealed text: The Book of the Law. Proclaiming the advent of a new aeon, which Crowley later called the Aeon of Horus, the text comprises three chapters, ascribed, respectively, to the deities Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor- Khuit. Contrary to ancient Egyptian cosmologies, The Book of the Law posits an erotic, dialectical ontology whereby the ecstatic union of Nuit (the Thelemic cosmic feminine principle) and Hadit (the masculine principle) gives rise to Ra-Hoor-Khuit, identified with the liberating energies of the new aeon. In this paper, I will highlight the gendered connotations of Egyptological reception in The Book of the Law. 

Nyckelord
esotericism; gender; Thelema; Aleister Crowley; Egyptosophy
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionshistoria
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-63211 (URN)
Konferens
International Theosophical History Conference 2023, "The Reception of Egypt and the Ancients in Theosophy and Related Esoteric Currents".
Tillgänglig från: 2023-10-22 Skapad: 2023-10-22 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-08-30Bibliografiskt granskad
Hedenborg White, M. (2023). Das übersetzte Mysterium: Die Übertragung von Tradition in Theodor Reuss' deutscher Übersetzung der Gnostischen Messe. KNEPH. Das Neue Journal für Thelemische Kultur (1), 71-116
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Das übersetzte Mysterium: Die Übertragung von Tradition in Theodor Reuss' deutscher Übersetzung der Gnostischen Messe
2023 (Tyska)Ingår i: KNEPH. Das Neue Journal für Thelemische Kultur, nr 1, s. 71-116Artikel i tidskrift (Övrig (populärvetenskap, debatt, mm)) Published
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Ordo Templi Orientis Deutschland, 2023
Nyckelord
esotericism, Western esotericism, occultism, Thelema, Gnostic Mass, Aleister Crowley, Theodor Reuss
Nationell ämneskategori
Religionshistoria
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-65476 (URN)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-01-29 Skapad: 2024-01-29 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-02-27Bibliografiskt granskad
Projekt
Makt genom närhet? Kvinnlig auktoritet och agens i en manligt styrd ny religion [2018-00439_VR]; Södertörns högskola; Publikationer
Hedenborg White, M. (2024). Magic in Art, Poetry, and Biography: Marjorie Cameron’s Illustrated Notebooks c. 1956–1964. Religion and the Arts, 28(1-2), 133-169
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