The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)
is a learned society established in 2005 to advance the academic study of the various manifestations of Western esotericism from late antiquity to the present and to secure the future development of the field. The ESSWE is an affiliated society of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) and a related scholarly organization of the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
Central and Eastern European Network for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism (CEENASWE)
is a regional network, affiliated with the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).
The networks’s Steering Committee consists of: Dr. György E. Szönyi (University of Szeged / Central European University, Budapest), Dr. Rafał Prinke (Eugeniusz Piasecki University, Poznań), Dr. Nemanja Raduović (University of Belgrade), Dr. Karolina Maria Kotkowska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), Dr. Júlia Gyimesi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest), and Dr. Pavel Horák (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) and is chaired by Professor Szönyi.
The Societas Magica is an organization dedicated to furthering communication and exchange among scholars interested in the study of magic, both in the positive contexts of its expression as an area of necessary knowledge or religious practice (as in early modern occultism and contemporary paganism), and in its negative contexts as the substance of an accusation or condemnation (as in sorcery trials, and many philosophical and theological accounts, both early and late). The interests of our membership include, but are not limited to, the history and sociology of magic; theological, and intellectual apprehensions of magic; practices and theories of magic; and objects, artifacts and texts either qualified as magical by their creators, or forming the substance of an accusation of magic by others.
Established in 1994 by Richard Kieckhefer, Claire Fanger and Robert Mathiesen, the Societas originally had the purpose of sponsoring sessions on the history of magic in the middle ages at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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KULTURA POLSKA WOBEC ZACHODNIEJ FILOZOFII EZOTERYCZNEJ W LATACH 1890-1939 (Uniwersytet Gdański)
Kierownik: Prof. dr hab. Monika Rzeczycka