Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Tradition -- 2 Constructing Esotericisms: Sociological, Historical and Critical Approaches to the Invention of Tradition -- 3 Inventing Africa: Esotericism and the Creation of an Afrocentric Tradition in America -- 4 Secret Lineages and de Facto Satanists: Anton LaVey's Use of Esoteric Tradition -- 5 Perennialism and Iconoclasm: Chaos Magick and the Legitimacy of Innovation -- Part II: Popular Culture and New Media -- 6 Occulture is Ordinary -- 7 From Book to Bit: Enacting Satanism Online -- 8 Accessing the Astral with a Monitor and Mouse: Esoteric Religion and the Astral Located in Three-Dimensional Virtual Realms -- 9 The Secrets of Scientology: Concealment, Information Control and Esoteric Knowledge in the World's Most Controversial New Religion -- 10 Hidden Knowledge, Hidden Powers: Esotericism and Conspiracy Culture -- Part III: Esoteric Transfers -- 11 Discursive Transfers and Reconfigurations: Tracing the Religious and the Esoteric in Secular Culture -- 12 Radical Politics and Political Esotericism: The Adaptation of Esoteric Discourse within the Radical Right -- 13 New Age Spirituality and Islamic Jihad: Paulo Coelho's Manual of the Warrior of Light and Shamil Basayev's Manual of the Mujahid -- 14 Deep Ecology and the Study of Western Esotericism -- Part IV: Leaving the Margins -- 15 The Secular, the Post-Secular and the Esoteric in the Public Sphere -- 16 Psychic Enchantments of the Educated Classes: The Paranormal and the Ambiguities of Disenchantment -- 17 The New Kids: Indigo Children and New Age Discourse -- 18 A Small-Town Health Centre in Sweden: Perspectives on the Western Esotericism Debate -- 19 Entheogenic Esotericism -- 20 A Deliciously Troubling Duo: Gender and Esotericism.

Bibliography, Discography and Filmography -- Index.