Of Chas' suggestions I think you would find Pasi and Kripal (especially Kripal for the NRM material) most relevant. If you can do d some framing sections from Hanegraaf that would be super. Alex Owen has a really stellar work with some great perspectives on the Golden Dawn that might make for cool conversations in the Irish context. I would also always recommend Egil Asprem's work which is data driven, theoretically sophisticated, and he writes page turning academic monographs, which is a rare quality indeed.
Thank you, Chas! I have some of Wouter Hanegraff's New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought and I am aware of a few of the names you listed, but not all so I have a lot to go on there.All the best,JennyOn 17 August 2015 at 22:25, Chas Clifton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Jeffrey Kripal, Antoine Faivre, Arthur Versluis, Jay Smoley, Henrik Bogdan, Cathy Gutierrez, Claire Fanger, and Marco Pasi
are just a few of the names I know -- and there are more coming up.