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Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Publications

Books

The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Rudolf Steiner (Western Esoteric Masters), North Atlantic Books,U.S., 2005.

Helena Blavatsky., North Atlantic Books, 2004.

The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology, London, I. B. Tauris, 2004.

Helena Blavatsky (Western Esoteric Masters), Berkeley, CA, North Atlantic, 2004.

Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, New York, New York University Press, 2003.

Paracelsus, Berkeley, CA, North Atlantic, 1999.

Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan myth, and neo-Nazism, New York, New York University Press, 1998.

Chapters

Hitler's Mentor: Dietrich Eckart and the Nazi Gnosis, in Esotericism, Religion, and Politics, Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2012

Western Esoteric Traditions and Theosophy, in Hammer O,Rothstein M (eds) Brill Handbook on the Theosophical Current, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2012

Glastonbury: legendary traditions as esoteric intermediary, in Maillard C (eds) Capitals of European Esotericism and Transcultural Dialogue, Strasbourg: Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l'Homme Alsace Universite de Strasbourg, 2012

Stonehenge to the Sphinx: Esoteric Theory and Practice in Twentieth-Century Astroarchaeology, in Campion N (eds) Astrololgies: Plurality and Diversity, Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press, 2011, 151-180

The Coming of the Masters: The evolutionary reformulation of spiritual intermediaries in modern Theosophy, in Kilcher A (eds) Constructing Tradition: Means and Myths of Transmission in Western Esotericism, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010, 113-160

The Aryan Christ: the electrochristology of Ariosophy, in Hammer O (eds) Alternative Christs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 212-239

Western Esotericism in the United Kingdom, in Hanegraaff WJ,Pijnenburg J (eds) Hermes in the Academy, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009, 129-133

Raimundo Lullo e il nuovo ordine mondiale: evangelismo esoterico e filosofia militante, in Grossato A (eds) Forme e correnti dell’esotersmo occidentale,, Milan: Edizioni Medusa, 2008, 71-91

with CR Goodrick-Clarke, G.R.S. Mead; His Life, Works and Influence, in Goodrick-Clarke C (eds) G.R.S. Mead and the Gnostic Quest, North Atlantic Books, 2005, 1-32

'Nazism and the Occult', in The Occult World, Abingdon: Routledge

Articles

Ramon Lull's New World Order: Esoteric Evangelism and Frontline Philosophy, Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, vol. 9, no. 2, 2009, 175-194

'The Theosophical Society, Orientalism, and the "Mystic East": Western Esotericism and Eastern Religion in Theosophy', Theosophical History, vol. 13: 3, 2007, 3-28

The Esoteric Uses of Electricity: Theologies of Electricity from Swabian Pietism to Ariosophy., Aries, vol. 4, no. 1, 2004, 69-90

The Divine Fire: H. P. Blavatsky and the Theology of Electricity., Theosophical History, vol. 9, no. 4, 2003, 4-20

Book Reviews

Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation, NOVA RELIG, vol. 13, no. 3, 2010, 123-124

Reviews

Review of Marsha Keith Schuchard, Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden (Leiden: Brill, 2012), Reviews in History, 2012

Review of Henrik Bogdan, Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2007), Novo Religio, vol. 13, no. 3, 2010, 123-124

Review of Helmut Zander, Anthroposophie in Deutschland: Theosophische Weltanschauung und gesellschaftliche Praxis 1884-1945 (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007), Theosophical History, vol. 14, no. 3-4, 2010, 115-121

Review of Franz Sättler Musallam, Der Adept: Die zwölf Stufen des magischen Einweihungsweges, edited and introduced by H.T. Hakl, Aries, vol. 9: 1, 2009, 127-130

Review of Arthur Versluis, The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), History, vol. 93, no. 309, 2008, 107-108

Review of Anita Stasulane, Theosophy and Culture: Nicholas Roerich (Rome, Editrice Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, 2005), Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 21: 3, 2006

Review of The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky. Volume 1 1861-1879 [H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings] (Wheaton, IL: Quest, 2003), Aries, vol. 6: 2, 2006, 236-241

Review of Corinna Treitel, A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), English Historical Review, vol. 120, no. 485, 2005, 256-258

Review of Alex Owen, The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), English Historical Review, vol. 120, no. 485, 2005, 256-258

Review of Michael Gomes, The Coulomb Case [Theosophical History Papers, 10] (Fullerton, CA: Theosophical History, 2005), Theosophical History, vol. 11, no. 3, 2005, 23-27

Review of Eric G. Wilson, The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Theosophical History, vol. 11, no. 4, 2005, 28-31

Internet publications

Review of Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden, Reviews in History (review no. 1236), , 2012