Editors’ Conclusion

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This chapter summarizes the main conceptual and empirical arguments and findings of the volume. The studies collected in the book indicate how the relationship between esotericism and deviance is contextual and situated. Deviance is not monolithic, and the category can incorporate identities of willing outsider status as well as involuntary stigma. Though many forms of esotericism have historically been seen as deviant, others have been mainstream. Further, imagined or polemical deviance is not always historically factual. Taken together, this calls for a nuanced understanding of historical and contextual specificity in the continued study of esotericism and its relationship to processes of normalization and normativization, othering, marginalization, and rejection.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEsotericism and Deviance
EditorsManon Hedenborg White, Tim Rudbøg
PublisherBrill
Publication date2023
Pages434–438
ISBN (Print)9789004549746
ISBN (Electronic)9789004681040
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
SeriesAries Book Series
Volume33
ISSN1871-1405

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