Bernd-Christian Otto - Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective

Bernd-Christian Otto is a scholar of religion, currently situated at the university of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on the history of magic, where he combines different methodologies such as conceptual history, discourse analysis, social theory, and ritual studies. His recent publications include the co-written monograph (together with Daniel Bellingradt) Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe: The Clandestine Trade in Illegal Book Collections (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan 2017), the co-edited anthology (together with Martin Fuchs et al.) Religious Individualisation: Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives (Berlin: De Gruyter 2019), and the co-edited anthology (together with Dirk Johannsen) Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration and the Power of Imagination (Leiden: Brill 2021). Side interests include the reception of Buddha Maitreya in Western esotericism, processes of religious individualisation, ritual theories and dynamics, the relation between religion and ethics, and the peculiarities of religious experience. Bernd-Christian Otto has a broad interest and expertise in the history of Western learned magic, and is, since a few years, particularly interested in its modern and contemporary manifestations (magick). Since 2016, Bernd-Christian Otto is a permanent board member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.

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