• Editorial

Esotericism as a Field of Study

• Arthur Versluis. What Is Esoteric? Methods in the Study of Western Esotericism
• Sergey Pakhomov. Specific Features of Contemporary Russian Esoteriology

Varieties of Esotericism

• Yuri Rodichenkov. Practical Spirituality and Spiritual Practice of Alchemy
• Yuriy Khalturin. Esotericism and Worldview of the Russian Freemasonry of the 18th — 19th Centuries: Toward a Conceptualization
• Boaz Huss. The New Age of Kabbalah. Contemporary Kabbalah, New Age and Postmodern Spirituality
• Kateryna Zorya. From Charm to Ritual: Transformations of «Magic» in the Post-Soviet Space
• Anna Tessmann. Celestial Reflections: an Outline of Contemporary Astrology
• Stanislav Panin. The Origins of Gerald Gardner’s Views on Witchcraft
• Pavel Nosachev. Integral Traditionalism: Between Politics and Esotericism
• Alexander Rychkov. The Reception of Gnostic Ideas in Russian Literature of the Early 20th Century

Esotericism and Modernity: Theoretical Reflections

• Edward Ashod Tiryakian. Toward the Sociology of Esoteric Culture
• Marco Pasi. The Modernity of Occultism: Reflections on Some Crucial Aspects

• Vladislav Razdyakonov. Mapping Imagination on the Borders of Science: Quest for Universal Unity at the Turn of the 19th — 20th Centuries
• Hanegraaff, W. (2012) Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. –478 p.
• Aptekman, M. (2011) Jacob’s Ladder: Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press. — 249 p.
• Kondakov, Iu. E. (2012) Orden zolotogo i rozovogo kresta v Rossii. Teoreticheskii gradus solomonovykh nauk [Order of the Gold and Rosy Cross in Russia: Theoretical Degree of Solomon’s Sciences]. Sankt-Peterburg: MP Asterion, 2012 (in Russian). - 616 p.