Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004168732)

Wouter J. Hanegraaff (1961) is professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His publications focus on the history of Western esotericism from Renaissance hermetism to contemporary New Age spiritualities, and on questions of method and theory in the modern academic study of these fields. Jeffrey J. Kripal (1962) is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His publications focus on the comparative erotics of mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religious traditions, and the history of Western esotericism from ancient Gnosticism to the New Age.