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'''Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff''', born 1961, is full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the [[University of Amsterdam]], the Netherlands. He is also President of the [http://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism] (ESSWE).
'''Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff''', born 1961, is full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the [[University of Amsterdam]], the Netherlands. He is also President of the [http://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism] (ESSWE).
Hanegraaff originally studied [[classical guitar]] at the Municipal Conservatory at [[Zwolle]] from 1982 to 1987, and [[cultural history]] at the [[University of Utrecht]] from 1986 to 1990. From 1992 to 1996 he was a Research Fellow at the department for Study of Religions at the University of Utrecht. His dissertation ''New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought'' was published by [[Brill Publishers|Brill]] in 1996. Two years later it was taken up by SUNY Press. This work constitutes one of the first non-polemical academic reviews of the [[New Age]] movement, presenting an analysis on the basis of its important texts. It covers important authors, themes, aspects of New Age belief, and finally looks at the New Age in the context of traditional Western [[esotericism]]. It has helped pave the way for a number of further studies that have appeared in various journals, concerning the New Age phenomenon.
Hanegraaff originally studied [[classical guitar]] at the Municipal Conservatory at [[Zwolle]] from 1982 to 1987, and [[cultural history]] at the [[University of Utrecht]] from 1986 to 1990. From 1992 to 1996 he was a Research Fellow at the department for Study of Religions at the University of Utrecht. His dissertation ''New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought'' was published by [[Brill Publishers|Brill]] in 1996. Two years later it was taken up by SUNY Press. This work constitutes one of the first non-polemical academic reviews of the [[New Age]] movement, presenting an analysis on the basis of its important texts. It covers important authors, themes, aspects of New Age belief, and finally looks at the New Age in the context of traditional Western [[esotericism]]. It has helped pave the way for a number of further studies that have appeared in various journals, concerning the New Age phenomenon.
From 1996 to 1999 Hanegraaff held a postdoctoral fellowship from the [http://www.nwo.nl/ Dutch Association for Scientific Research] (NWO), during which time he spent a period working in Paris.
In 1999 he became professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the [[University of Amsterdam]]. From 2002 to 2006 he has been president of the [http://www.godsdienstwetenschap.nl/ Dutch Society for the Study of Religion], and, since 2005, president of the [http://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism]. In 2006 he was elected member of the [http://www.knaw.nl/ Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences] (Koninklijke Nederlanse Academie voor Wetenschappen, KNAW).
From 1996 to 1999 Hanegraaff held a postdoctoral fellowship from the [http://www.nwo.nl/ Dutch Association for Scientific Research] (NWO), during which time he spent a period working in Paris. In 1999 he became professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the [[University of Amsterdam]]. From 2002 to 2006 he has been president of the [http://www.godsdienstwetenschap.nl/ Dutch Society for the Study of Religion], and, since 2005, president of the [http://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism]. In 2006 he was elected member of the [http://www.knaw.nl/ Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences] (Koninklijke Nederlanse Academie voor Wetenschappen, KNAW).
In his addition to his book on the New Age, Hanegraaff has written a book on the Renaissance hermetist [[Lodovico Lazzarelli]] (with Ruud M. Bouthoorn). Lazzarelli was treated by [[Frances A. Yates]] as a secondary figure. The Hanegraaff-Bouthoorn book argues that Yates's "grand narrative" of the Hermetic Tradition needs to be revised. It seeks to restore Lazzarelli's place in the history of Renaissance hermetism and contains critical annotated editions and translations of Lazzarelli's hermetic writings, plus several related documents such as the previously unpublished biography of Lazzarelli by his brother, and texts by his spiritual master [[Giovanni da Correggio]].
In his addition to his book on the New Age, Hanegraaff has written a book on the Renaissance hermetist [[Lodovico Lazzarelli]] (with Ruud M. Bouthoorn). Lazzarelli was treated by [[Frances A. Yates]] as a secondary figure. The Hanegraaff-Bouthoorn book argues that Yates's "grand narrative" of the Hermetic Tradition needs to be revised. It seeks to restore Lazzarelli's place in the history of Renaissance hermetism and contains critical annotated editions and translations of Lazzarelli's hermetic writings, plus several related documents such as the previously unpublished biography of Lazzarelli by his brother, and texts by his spiritual master [[Giovanni da Correggio]].
==Partial bibliography ==
==Partial bibliography ==
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* W. J. Hanegraaff, ''New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought'', Brill, Leiden 1996, State University of New York Press, Albany 1998. ISBN 978-90-04-10696-3; ISBN 0-7914-3854-6
* W. J. Hanegraaff, ''New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought'', Brill, Leiden 1996, State University of New York Press, Albany 1998. ISBN 978-90-04-10696-3; ISBN 0-7914-3854-6
* ----- and R.M. Bouthoorn ''Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents'', Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, 2005.
* ----- and R.M. Bouthoorn ''Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents'', Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, 2005.