The New Age of Russia. Occult and Esoteric Dimensions. Ed. Birgit Menzel, Michael Hagemeister and Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Munich: Kubon&Sagner, 2012
www.New-Age-of-Russia.com
I. Introduction (Birgit Menzel)
II. Prerevolutionary Roots and Early Soviet Manifestations
1. The Occult and Popular Entertainment in Late Imperial Russia (Julia Mannherz)
2. The History of Esotericism in Soviet Russia in the 1920s–1930s (Konstantin Burmistrov)
3. The Occultist Aleksandr Barchenko and the Soviet Secret Police (1923-1938) (Oleg Shishkin)
4. From Synarchy to Shambhala: The Role of Political Occultism and Social Messianism in the Activities of Nicholas Roerich (Markus Osterrieder)
5. Konstantin Tsiolkovskii and the Occult Roots of Soviet Space Travel (Michael Hagemeister)
III. Manifestations in the Soviet Period (1930-1985)
6. Occult and Esoteric Movements in Russia from the 1960s to the 1980s (Birgit Menzel)
7. Away from the Globe. Occultism, Esotericism and Literature in Russia during the 1960s-1980s (Leonid Heller)
8. Guests from Outer Space. Occult Aspects of Soviet Science Fiction (Matthias Schwartz)
9. Totalitarian Utopia, the Occult, and Technological Modernity in Russia: The Intellectual Experience of Cosmism (Marlene Laruelle)
IV. The Occult Revival in Late and Post Soviet Russia (1985 to the Present)
10. Occult and Esoteric Doctrines after the Collapse of Communism (Demyan Belyaev)
11. Occult Dissident Culture: The Case of Aleksandr Dugin (Mark Sedgwick)
12. The Rodnoverie Movement: The Search for Pre-Christian Ancestry and the Occult (Marlene Laruelle)
13. Through an Occult Prism: The Bolshevik Revolution in Three Post-Soviet Novels (Marina Aptekman)
14. Shamanism in the Russian Intelligentsia (Post-Soviet Space and Time) (Natalia Zhukovskaia)
15. Competing Legacies, Competing Visions of Russia: The Roerich Movement(s) in Post-Soviet Russia (John McCannon)
16. On the Way from Border Conflicts: Transpersonal Psychology in Russia (Boris Falikov)
V. Comparative Aspects, Continuity and Change
17. Occultism as a Response to a Spiritual Crisis (Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal)
18. The Global New Age (Jeff Kripal)
VI. Select Bibliography
VII. About the Contributors
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