LibGuides: Mysticism, Spiritualism, and the Supernatural: Journals and Weblinks

Journals

Aries (peer-reviewed)

Aries is the first academic journal specifically devoted to the study of esotericism. The journal publishes scholarly work, both empirically and theoretically driven, on all aspects of esoteric currents from antiquity to the present day, unrestrained by geographical and cultural location, and from a range of approaches in the humanities and social sciences. Esotericism is understood pragmatically as an umbrella term that covers a variety of historical currents, including but not limited to Gnosticism, Hermetism, theurgy, the Islamic science of letters, the “occult sciences” (magic, alchemy, astrology), kabbalah, Paracelsianism, Rosicrucianism, theosophy, illuminism, spiritualism and occultism, tantra and yoga, psychical research, traditionalism, neopaganism, alternative spiritualities, conspirituality, popular occulture, etc. Aries is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal publishing articles and book reviews in English, French, German, and Italian.

Published under the auspices of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).

International Journal of Conscientiology (open-access, peer-reviewed)

The International Journal of Conscientiology is an open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes annually papers dealing with all specialties of conscientiology, a neoscience that studies consciousness, primarily under the premisses of the consciential paradigm, in an integral, holosomatic, bioenergetic, multidimensional, and multiexistential way. The main goal is to exchange experiences and scientific results on conscientiological research seeking to expand the scientificity of the internationalization of conscientiology.

The Luke Lindoe Library gives you access to issues published between 2008-09. To view those articles, click here.

Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (peer-reviewed)

Only one issue available from 2009 but y'all...it's a journal about academic studying magic. Let's go!!

Covers all areas of magic, witchcraft, paganism, etc; all geographical regions and all historical periods.

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (peer-reviewed)

The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in 1882 ‘to examine without prejudice or prepossession and in a scientific spirit those faculties of man, real or supposed, which appear to be inexplicable on any generally recognised hypothesis’.

The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (JSPR) has a long and illustrious history. It was first published in 1884 and is published quarterly every year. The JSPR provides a peer-reviewed forum for communication and critical debate for the community of scholars and interested parties involved and/or interested in the field of psychic, parapsychological or anomalous effects. It includes reports of current laboratory and fieldwork research, along with theoretical, methodological and historical papers that have a bearing on these topic areas.

Pomegranate (peer-reviewed)

Pomegranate is the first International, peer-reviewed journal of Pagan studies. It provides a forum for papers, essays and symposia on both ancient and contemporary Pagan religious practices. The Pomegranate also publishes timely reviews of scholarly books in this growing field.

Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (peer-reviewed)

Articles available from 2006-2008.

A serious, rigorously peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft draws from a broad spectrum of perspectives, methods, and disciplines, offering the widest possible geographical scope and chronological range, from prehistory to the modern era and from the Old World to the New. In addition to original research, the journal includes book reviews, editorials, and lists of newly published work.

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