CAS-E Workshop Esotericism in East Asia and Global Esoteric Practices

The DFG Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective, in collaboration with the University of Göttingen, is delighted to announce the Book Launch and Workshop

Esotericism in East Asia and Global Esoteric Practices

to be held on

November 18-20, 2026

at the

CAS-E, Large Seminar Room

(Hartmannstrasse 14, Building D1, 91052 Erlangen)

This book launch cum workshop presents Esotericism in East Asia: Cultural Interpretation and Politics (eds. Chienhui Chuang, Sangyun Han & Julian Strube, Bloomsbury 2026) and takes it as the starting point for a methodological conversation with CAS-E. Bringing the volume's historically and regionally grounded case studies into dialogue with CAS-E's praxeological focus on marking and boundary-making, the workshop invites the contributors to view their own material through the CAS-E framework, and asks how East Asian materials can help to rethink the conceptual and historiographical premises of research on esotericism.
For further information, please contact: rolf.scheuermann@fau.de

Weitere Informationen: https://cas-e.de/2026/11/02/esotericism-in-east-asia-and-global-esoteric-practices/