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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).
He is the author of ''New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought'' (Leiden 1996/ Albany 1998), ''Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents'' (Tempe 2005; with Ruud M. Bouthoorn), ''Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven'' (West Chester 2007), and numerous articles in academic journals and collective volumes. He is the main editor of the ''Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism'' (Brill: Leiden 2005), editor of ''Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism'' and the “Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism” (both Brill), as well as of four collective volumes on the study of religions and the history Western esotericism. He is member of the editorial board of the journals ''[[Religion (journal)|Religion]]'', ''[[Numen (journal)|Numen]]'', ''[[Religion Compass (journal)|Religion Compass]]'' and ''[[Esoterica (journal)|Esoterica]]'', and on the advisory board of ''[[Journal of Contemporary Religion]]'' and ''[[Nova Religio]]''.
He is the author of ''New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought'' (Leiden 1996/ Albany 1998), ''Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents'' (Tempe 2005; with Ruud M. Bouthoorn), ''Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven'' (West Chester 2007), and numerous articles in academic journals and collective volumes. He is the main editor of the ''Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism'' (Brill: Leiden 2005), editor of ''Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism'' and the “Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism” (both Brill), as well as of four collective volumes on the study of religions and the history Western esotericism. He is member of the editorial board of the journals ''[[Religion (journal)|Religion]]'', ''[[Numen (journal)|Numen]]'', ''[[Religion Compass (journal)|Religion Compass]]'' and ''[[Esoterica (journal)|Esoterica]]'', and on the advisory board of ''[[Journal of Contemporary Religion]]'' and ''[[Nova Religio]]''.