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DATES Born10april1961inAmsterdam(theNetherlands). 19821987:MunicipalConservatoryofZwolle(classicalguitar). 19861990:UniversityofUtrecht,FacultyofLetters.ProgramAlgemeneLetteren (Cultural History); specialization The role of alternative spiritual movements in 20thcenturyculturalhistory.Diploma(cumlaude)in1990. 19921996:UniversityofUtrecht,FacultyofTheology,dept.StudyofReligion.Ph.D. ResearchAssociate. 30November1995:dissertationdefense(cumlaude).Titledissertation:NewAge ReligionandWesternCulture:EsotericismintheMirrorofSecularThought. 19961999: University of Utrecht, Faculty of Theology, dept. Study of Religion. Postdoctoralresearcher. 1 sept. 1999present: University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, dept. Theology & Religious Studies.Full professor History of Hermetic philosophy and relatedCurrents. 2006:ElectedMemberoftheRoyalDutchAcademyofSciences(KNAW) EDITORIALACTIVITIES

Journals Editor(withA.FaivreandNicholasGoodrickClarke)Aries:JournalfortheStudyof WesternEsotericism,Brill(20012010). EuropeanEditorialBoardReligion,AcademicPress(1999present) EditorialBoardNumen,Brill(20022005) EditorialBoardEsotericahttp://www.esoteric.msu.edu(1999present) EditorialAdvisoryBoardJournalofContemporaryReligion,Carfax(2001present) EditorialAdvisoryBoardNovaReligio,UniversityofCaliforniaPress(2000present) EditorialBoardReligionCompass,SectionNewReligions, http://www.blackwellcompass.com/subject/religion/(2007present) EditorialBoardReligieuzeBewegingeninNederland,VUUitgeverij(19931996) BookSeries Editor Studies in the History of Religions (Numen Book Series), Royal E.J. Brill, Leiden/Boston/Kln(20002006).

Books Editor (with R. Kloppenborg) Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions, E.J. Brill: Leiden1995. Editor (with R. van den Broek) Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times,SUNYPress:Albany1998. Editor (with A. Faivre) Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion, Peeters: Louvain1998. Editor (with R.Caron, J. Godwin and J.L. VieillardBaron), sotrisme, gnoses, et imaginairesymbolique:MlangesoffertsAntoineFaivre,Peeters:Louvain2001. Editor(incollaborationwithA.Faivre,R.vandenBroek,J.P.Brach)Dictionaryof GnosisandWesternEsotericism,Brill:Leiden/Boston2005. Editor(withJeffreyJ.Kripal),HiddenIntercourse:ErosandSexualityintheHistoryof Western Esotericism, Brill: Leiden / Boston 2008 [U.S. Paperback: Fordham UniversityPress:NewYork2010]. Editor(withJoycePijnenburg),HermesintheAcademy:TenYearsStudyofWestern Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam2009. CONFERENCEORGANIZATION International Summer University Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to ModernTimes,Amsterdam1994(withRoelofvandenBroek). Symposium Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion, XVIIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R.), Mexico City 1995 (withAntoineFaivre&KarenClaireVoss). Symposium Western Esotericism and Jewish Mysticism, XVIIIth Congress InternationalAssociationfortheHistoryofReligions(I.A.H.R),Durban,SouthAfrika 2000(withJanA.M.Snoek) ConferenceTheVarietiesofEsotericExperience,EsalenInstitute(California),812 March2004[withJeffreyJ.Kripal] Conference Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in Western Esotericism, Esalen Institute(California),38April2005[withJeffreyJ.Kripal] Conference Hidden Truths, Novel Truths: Fiction in Western Esotericism, Esalen Institute(California),1419may2006[withJeffreyJ.Kripal] Conference Secret States: Altered States of Consciousness and Western Esotericism, EsalenInstitute(California),1417May2007[withJeffreyJ.Kripal]

Editor(withG.W.Trompf,UniversityofSydney)Gnostica:Texts&Interpretations, Peeters,Louvain(19972001). EditorAriesBookSeries:TextsandStudiesinWesternEsotericism,Brill(2006 2010).

ACADEMICPARTICIPATION(LECTURES) 1990 XVIthCongressInternationalAssociationfortheHistoryofReligions(I.A.H.R.),Rome 1990.[paperADynamicalApproachtotheProblemofPostGnosticGnosticism]. 1992 CESNUR(CenterforStudyofNewReligiousMovements)InternationalConference Ledfimagique,Lyon1992[paperTheProblemofPostGnosticGnosticism]. 1993 CESNURInternationalConferenceNewReligionsandtheNewEurope,London1993 [nopaper]. InternationalConferenceReligionandPostmodernity,Bristol1993[nopaper]. 1994 Conference Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap (NGG), Tilburg 1994 [invited lecture Frazer als (aan)stichter van een nieuwe religie: De jaarfeesteninWicca]. Amsterdam Summer UniversityGnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times,Amsterdam1994[2papers:RomanticismandtheEsotericConnectionand TheNewAgeMovementandtheEsotericTradition]. 1995 XVIIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R.), MexicoCity1995[paperOntheConstructionofEsotericTraditions]. 1996 InternationalConferenceNatureReligionToday:WesternPaganism,Shamanismand Esotericisminthe1990s,UniversityofLancaster1996[invitedlectureReflections onNewAgeandtheSecularizationofNature]. CESNURInternationalCongressSocietiesandtheNewReligiousPluralism,Montreal 1996[paperEmanuelSwedenborgandWesternEsotericism]. Colloque Universit de Paris III/Sorbonne Nouvelle Symboles et mythes dans les mouvementsinitiatiquesetsotriques(17me20mesicle):filiationsetemprunts, Paris1996[invitedlectureLafindelsotrisme?Lemouvementdunouvelgeet laquestiondusymbolismereligieux].

1997 PalladianAcademy:1stSymposium,Novanta(Itali)1997[invitedlecture:Justinus KernerandtheSeeressofPrevorst]. UniversitdeLausanne,Dept.interfacultairedhistoireetdesciencesdesreligions, Zwitserland, 1997 [invited public lecture The New Age Movement and the SecularizationofWesternEsotericism]. International conference Religion in the Making: The Emergence of the Sciences of Religion. Research Center Religion and Society, Amsterdam 1997 [invited paper TheEmergenceoftheAcademicScienceofMagic:TheOccultPhilosophyinTylor andFrazer]. International conference Magic and Modernity. Research Center Religion and Society,Amsterdam1997[invitedpaperSympathyortheDevil:RenaissanceMagic andtheAmbivalenceofIdols]. CESNUR International CongressMagic, Millennium, and New Religious Movements, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 1997 [invited public lecture The New Age Movement]. ColloquiumRudolfAgricolaInstituut,UniversityofGroningen,1997[invitedlecture NewAgeReligionandSecularization]. American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, San Francisco 1997 [paper TheosophyandMagiaNaturalis]. 1998 SISWO (i.c.w. NVMC/NSV), 8e Sociaalwetenschappelijke Studiedagen, Amsterdam 1998[paperHowMagicSurvivedtheDisenchantmentoftheWorld]. 1999 FryskeAkademy,1May1999[invitedlectureDeNewAgebeweging]. Huizinga Instituut, University of Amsterdam, Onttovering en betovering, 21 May 1999[invitedlectureTheSeeressofPrevorst]. Conference Hermetismus als Kulturphnomen in der frhen Neuzeit, Gttingen, October1999[nopaper]. Seminar New Age and Globalization, RENNER, Copenhagen 1617 November 1999 [invited lecture Prospects for the Globalization of New Age: Spiritual ImperialismversusCulturalDiversity]. American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Boston 2023 November 1999 [paperBeyondtheYatesParadigm]. 2000

ReedCollege,Portland(Oregon),5April2000[invitedpubliclecture:Beyondthe Yates Paradigm: The Study of Western Esotericism between Counterculture and PostmodernComplexity]. Palladian Academy: 2nd Symposium, Graz (Austria), June 2000 [paper Lodovico LazzarelliandGiovanniMercurioCorreggio]. XVIIIth Congress International Association for the History of Religions (I.A.H.R.), Durban (South Africa), August 2000 [paper Lodovico Lazzarellis Use of Jewish MysticalSources]. 2001 Arizona State University, Phoenix (Arizona). Invited public lecture, 1 May 2001 [HowMagicSurvivedtheDisenchantmentoftheWorld]. Kalamazoo, 36th Congress on Medieval Studies, 36 May 2001 [paper Defusing Magic:LodovicoLazzarelliandtheWisdomofHermes]. UniversitdeLausanne.Invitedpubliclecture,11June2001[HowMagicsurvived theDisenchantmentoftheWorld] CongressAutourdeloeuvredeFrancesA.Yates(18991981):Durveildelatradition hermtiquelanaissancedelasciencemoderne,Paris,Sorbonne,2829sept.2001 [Lafindelatraditionhermtique:FrancesYatesetLodovicoLazzarelli] Congress The Hermetic Imagination in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, University of California, Los Angeles, 56 October 2001 [paper Swedenborg in OetingersHermeticImagination]. Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology III: Developing a Relational Theology, UniversityofLouvain,69November2001[invitedpubliclectureTheDreamsof TheologyandtheRealitiesofChristianity]. 2002 Conference Secrey, Histories and Publics, Sweet Briar College (Virginia), 1517 March 2002 [keynote lecture Are there Secrets in Swedenborgs Secrets of Heaven?] CREAStudiumGenerale,ReligiestudiesUvA,LezingenserieDezevenhoofdzonden endetaalvandemoraal,16april2002[lectureKuisheid:Dezuiverezonde] Voorjaarsconferentie Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap, 2002 [lectureonthefutureofthestudyofReligion] Public lecture Graduiertenkolleg Universitt Heidelberg, Heidelberg 17 June 2002 [lectureTheHermeticChristintheStreetsofRome] Sixth International Reuchlin Congress:Reuchlin und seine Erben: Forscher, Denker, Ideologen und Spinner, Pforzheim (Germany), 2023 June 2002 [lecture Emanuel SwedenborgandtheJews] Palladian Academy: 3rd Symposium, Aups (France), 2428 June 2002 [lecture on paradigmsinthestudyofWesternesotericism] 2003

ConferenceVrijmetselarijinNederland:Eenkennismakingmetdewetenschappelijke studievaneengeheimgenootschap,org.OVN/UniversityofLeiden,14March2003 [lecture De geschiedenis van de vrijmetselarij in relatie tot de studie van de Westerseesoterie] ConferenceOntheEdgeoftheFuture:LocatingEsalenintheHistoriesofAmerican Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Esalen Institute (California), 30 March4 April 2003 [lecture Human Potential before Esalen: Visionary Techniques and ExperiencesintheHistoryofWesternEsotericism] ConferenceBeliefBeyondBoundaries:AlternativeSpiritualitiesandNewAgeStudies, org. ASANAS, Open University, Milton Keynes (England), 30 May1 June 2003 [keynotelectureSwedenborgandNewAgeReligion] 2004 ConferenceTheVarietiesofEsotericExperience,EsalenInstitute(California),812 March 2004 [lecture Gnosis and Peak Experiences: Towards a Biographical ApproachintheStudyofWesternEsotericism] SummerschoolModernitGnosiReligione,IstitutodiScienzeReligiose,Trento, Italy,2028September2004[lectureGnosi,esotericaetermetica,oggi] AmericanAcademyofReligion,AnnualMeeting,SanAntonio,U.S.A.,2023November 2004[lectureCantherebeonlyOne?ReflectionsonMonotheismandIdolatry] Conference Secret Knowledge in the Enlightenment: Alchemists, Adventurers, Imposters, Spies, Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi su Descartes il Seicento, Universit degli Studi di Lecce, Italy, 34 December 2004 [lecture: Kant versus Swedenborg:EnlightenmentRhetoricasaStrategyofDissimulation] 2005 XIXthCongressInternationalAssociationfortheHistoryofReligions(I.A.H.R.),Tokyo, Japan, 2430 March 2005 [lecture: Forbidden Knowledge: AntiEsoteric Polemics andAcademicResearch] Conference Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in Western Esotericism, Esalen Institute(California),38April2005[lecture:UndertheMantleofLove:Sexuality andErosinMarsilioFicinoandGiordanoBruno] Invited lecture Interdisziplinres Zentrum fr die Erforschung der Europischen Aufklrung, MartinLutherUniversitt HalleWittenberg, 14 July 2005 [lecture AbendlndischeEsoterikalsErgebnispolemischerDiskurse] ConferenceMasonic and Esoteric Heritage: A New Perspective for Art and Heritage Policies,organizedbyOVN(FoundationfortheAdvancementofAcademicResearch into the History of Freemasonry in the Netherlands) in collaboration with subdepartment History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents & Chair for Cultural Heritage, Conservation & Restauration, University of Amsterdam, 20 October2005[lecture:WesternEsotericismandtheStatusoftheImage] InvitedLectureRiceUniversity,Houston(Texas),U.S.A.,17November2005[lecture: TheNightSideofReason:ShamanismandWesternEsotericism]

2006 Keynote lecture at workshop Hermetism and Rationalism in an Era of Cultural Change, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2324 February 2006 [lecture: What, if anything, is Hermetic Gnosis? Ways of Knowing in Renaissance Esotericism] Conference52ndMeetingoftheRenaissanceSocietyofAmerica,SanFrancisco,2325 March2006[lecture:GiovannidaCorreggiosDeQuercu] Spring meeting of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap), 8 april 2006 [lecture: De grote polemiek:Westerseesoteriealsproductvandemonothestischeverbeelding] Villa Bosch Symposia Series Knowledge and Space, First Symposium Clash of Knowledges, RuprechtKarlsUniversitt Heidelberg, 1922 April 2006 [lecture: Reason, Faith and Gnosis: Three Knowledge Systems and their Struggle for HegemonyintheCourseofEuropeanHistory] Conference Hidden Truths, Novel Truths: Fiction and Western Esotericism, Esalen Institute (California), 1419 May 2006 [lecture: Fiction in the Desert of the Real: LovecraftsCthulhuMythos] InternationalConferenceontheHistoryofAlchemyandChymistry,ChemicalHeritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 1922 July 2006 [lecture: PseudoLullian Alchemy and theMercurialPhoenix:GiovanniMercuriodaCorreggiosDeQuercuIuliiPontificis, sivedelapidephilosophico] Internationaler KantSwedenborgWorshop, Interdisziplinres Zentrum fr die Erforschung der Europischen Aufklrung, Forschergruppe Die Aufklrung im Bezugsfeld neuzeitlicher Esoterik, Universitt HalleWittenberg, Halle, Germany, 2930 august 2006 [lecture: Swedenborg aus der Sicht von Kant und der akademischenKantForschung] Conference Die Enzyklopdie der Esoterik: Allwissenheitsmythen und Universalwissenschaftliche Modelle in der Esoterik der Neuzeit, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbttel, Germany, 2630 September 2006 [lecture: Magnetic Gnosis:SomnambulismandtheQuestforAbsoluteKnowledge] InvitedlectureattheInstitutefrGrenzgebietederPsychologieundPsychohygiene e.V.(IGPP),20December2006[lecture:MagneticGnosis:Somnambulismandthe QuestforAbsoluteKnowledge] 2007 Conference The Occult in 20th Century Russia: Metaphysical Roots of Soviet Civilization,TheEuropeanAcademy,Berlin,1113March2007[invitedparticipant inclosingpanel] Conference53rdMeetingoftheRenaissanceSocietyofAmerica,Miami,USA,2224 March2007[lecture:ThePlatonicFrenziesinFicino] InvitedlectureUniversityofPisa,Italy,27March2007[title:EcstaticKnowledge: HermeticGnosisandPlatonicFrenziesintheWorkofFicino] ConferenceSecretStates:AlteredStatesofConsciousnessandWesternEsotericism, Esalen Institute, California, 1418 May 2007 [lecture: Altered States of Knowledge:GnosisintheHermetica]

ConferenceKabbalahandModernity,UniversityofAmsterdam,TheNetherlands, 46 July 2007 [lecture: The Beginnings of Occultist Kabbalah: Adolphe Franck andEliphasLvi] Inaugural conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism(ESSWE)ConstructingTradition:MeansandMythsofTransmissionin Western Esotericism, Tbingen, Germany, 2022 July 2006 [lecture: Western EsotericisminEnlightenmentHistoriography:TheCaseofJacobBrucker] Conference Religion and Identity Politics: Acceptable Religion and its Negative Others, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 2325 August 2007 [lecture:SuperstitionasaShiftingPolemicalConcept] ConferenceFormsandCurrentsofWesternEsotericism,GiorgioCiniFoundations, Venice,2931october2007[lecture:TheBirthofEsotericismfromtheSpiritof Protestantism] Conference Visions of Utopia: Masonic, Religious & Esoteric, Canonbury Masonic Research Center, 9th International Conference, London, 34 November 2007 [lecture:UtopiasoftheMind] Conference:AnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAcademyofReligion,SanDiego,USA, 1720november2007[nolecture] 2008 Lecture Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (KNAW), Amsterdam,14January2008[lecture:SwedenborgendeandereKant:Overde DroomvandeRedeendeGeest(en)vandeVerlichting] Conference Geheime kennis: De bijzondere archieven en bibliotheken van maonniekeenesoterischeorganisatiesinNederland,KoninklijkeBibliotheek,Den Haag, 25 January 2008 [lecture: Vanparticuliereverzameling naar beschermd cultureelerfgoed:DeBibliothecaPhilosophicaHermeticateAmsterdam] MiniSymposium Filosofie en Spiritualiteit, Leiden University [lecture: Esoterie entheGrandPolemicalNarrative] Conference 54th Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, USA, 35 April 2008 [lecture: After Ficino and Lazzarelli: Hermetic Gnosis and Platonic FrenziesinHeinrichCorneliusAgrippa] Conference Music and Esotericism: Art and Science of Sounds facing the Occult Knowledge, Rome, Academia Belgica, 1418 April 2008 [lecture: The UnspeakableandtheLaw:MusicasEsotericLanguageinAntonWebern] Conference The Globalization of Ayahuasca: An Amazonian Psychoactive and its Users,UniversityofHeidelberg,1618May2008[lecture:AyahuascaGroupsand Networks in the Netherlands: A Challenge to the Study of Contemporary Religion] KabbalahandContemporarySpiritualRevival:Historical,Sociological,andCultural Perspectives, Ben Gurion University, Israel, 2022 May 2008 [lecture: Kabbalah inGnosisMagazine(19851999)] Biannual Conference Association for the Study of Esotericism, Charleston, USA, June2008[keynotelecture:WillErichPeuckertandtheLightofNature] Conference The Making of the Humanities: First International Conference on the HistoryoftheHumanities,UniversityofAmsterdam,2325October2008[lecture: PhilosophysShadow:JacobBrucker(16961770)andtheHistoryofThought]

Conference:AnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAcademyofReligion,Chicago,USA,1 3November2008. ConferenceEuropasvergesseneTraditionen,VillaVignoni,Italy,1215November 2008. 2009 Stichting BAK (Basis voor Actuele Kunst), Utrecht, 1 March 2009 [lecture: Monothesmeenidolatrie] 2nd Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), Strasbourg, 24 July 2009 [lecture: Presidents Address: PoliticsandtheStudyofWesternEsotericism] 10year Anniversary Seminar of the chair History of Hermetic Philosophy and RelatedCurrents,UniversityofAmsterdam,28August2009[lecture:TenYears ofStudyingandTeachingWesternEsotericism] 2010 Conference Aufklrung und Esoterik: Wege in die Moderne, Interdisziplinres ZentrumfrdieErforschugnderEuropischenAufklrung(IZEA),MartinLuther Uniersitt HalleWittenberg, 912 March 2010 [plenary lecture: The Notion of OccultSciencesintheWakeoftheEnlightenment] Conference The Rosicrucian Tradition: Past, Present & Future, Bournemouth University, 89 May 2010 [lecture: Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Scientific Imagination] EMPHASIS Seminar, University of London, 15 May 2010 [lecture: Historians of Error:TheProtestantAttackonPlatonicOrientalism] 20thQuinquennialWorldCongressoftheInternationalAssociationfortheHistory of Religion, Toronto 1521 August 2010 [submitted lecture: Platonic Orientalism andWesternEsotericism]

OTHERACTIVITIES ChairWerkgezelschapGodsdienstwetenschapUtrecht,19941996. Founder/ChairstudygroupARIESNetherlands,19962006. Boardmember Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap (NGG), from 1996. PresidentNederlandsGenootschapvoorGodsdienstwetenschap(NGG),20022006. PresidentEuropeanSocietyfortheStudyofWesternEsotericism(ESSWE),2005 present. Unit Chair Western Esotericism Group, American Academy of Religion, 2006 2009.