RT Article
T1 The Study of Western Esotericism in East-Central Europe—With a Focus on the Last Decades: A Review Article and Forschungsbericht on Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Hungary
JF Aries
VO 23
IS 1
SP 1
OP 22
A1 Szőnyi, György Endre 1952-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1832873250
AB Since the early 2000s the study of (Western) esotericism has gone through a great development, partly boosted by the establishment of ESSWE in 2005. In East-Central Europe an upsurge in interest started with the changing of the communist regimes in 1989–1991 and scholars became liberated to enhance their studies in fields previously at best tolerated in those countries. Scholars from our region not only joined ESSWE but even organized a network under its aegis, CEENASWE, the Central and Eastern European Network for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism. The present collection of articles intends to provide a panorama of the wide-ranging research, focusing on the past few decades in a geographical order, moving from the north to the south. This article, while serving as a general introduction to the special issue, reviews Poland, Czechia and Hungary in particular, in a form that recalls Jürgen Habermas’s famous term, a Forschungsbericht.
K1 fall of communism in 1989–1991
K1 Hungary
K1 Czechia
K1 Poland
K1 East-Central Europe
K1 CEENASWE
K1 study of Western Esotericism
DO 10.1163/15700593-02301001