birth_date: 1984-02-26 00:00:00
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name: Egil Asprem
about: Egil Asprem, Ph.D. (History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam, 2012; M.A., Religious Studies, U. Amsterdam, 2008; B.A., Religious Studies &amp; Philiosphy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2006), is Professor in the History of Religions within the Department of Ethnology at Stockholm University, with a focus on western esotericism, new religious movements and alternative spritiualities, and the cognitive science of religion. He is editor-in-chief of Aries, a Member of the Board of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), and with Kennet Granholm  co-founder and coordinator of Contemporary Esotericism Research Network (ContERN). Egil Asprem, Ph.D. (History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam, 2012; M.A., Religious Studies, U. Amsterdam, 2008; B.A., Religious Studies &amp; Philiosphy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2006), is Professor in the History of Religions within the Department of Ethnology at Stockholm University, with a focus on western esotericism, new religious movements and alternative spritiualities, and the cognitive science of religion. He is editor-in-chief of Aries, a Member of the Board of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), and with Kennet Granholm  co-founder and coordinator of Contemporary Esotericism Research Network (ContERN). ...more