PRIVACY, SECRECY & ESOTERICISM

Organized by Centre for Privacy Studies and the Copenhagen Centre for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism of the University of Copenhagen, Privacy, Secrecy & Esotericism was a seminar in November 2022, followed by a publication currently under editorial review by Natacha Klein Käfer, Tim Rudbøg (UCPH), and Paulina Gruffman (Lund University). Esoteric traditions and associated currents have, through many centuries, developed and employed a number of strategies connected with secrecy. One important dimension of this has been to secure privacy for their practices, transmission, and survival. People needed safe spaces to procure esoteric knowledge, and secrecy was at the core of how much of this knowledge was protected. Secrecy and privacy have also served functions in esotericism related to discourses about higher knowledge, access to the divine, the secrets of nature, didactics and identity construction.

PUBLICATION

Paulina Gruffman, Natacha Klein Käfer, and Tim Rudbøg (eds.), Esotericism and Secrecy, under editorial review.

EVENT

Privacy, Secrecy & Esotericism seminar, organized by Natacha Klein Käfer and Tim Rudbøg. Centre for Privacy Studies (UCPH), November 14-15, 2022.

ORGANIZERS: Natacha Klein Käfer and Tim Rudbøg