Henrik Bogdan

Henrik Bogdan is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Gothenburg. His main research areas are Western esotericism, new religious movements and secret/initiatory societies. He has written and edited a number of publications including Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation (2007), Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley: A Correspondence (2010); Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism (2012), Occultism in a Global Perspective (2013), Sexuality and New Religious Movements (2014), Handbook of Freemasonry (2014) och Western Esotericism in Scandinavia (2016). Bogdan is the editor of the Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism book series, co-editor of Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities, and secretary of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).