![]() So - called ‘sigil magick ’ is one of the most widespread and straight - forward practices in modern western ritual magic. His book publications include Defining Magic: A Reader (Routledge 2013), co-edited with Michael Stausberg the duograph Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe: The Clandestine Trade in Illegal Book Collections (Palgrave MacMillan 2017), co-authored with Daniel Bellingradt and the anthology Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration and the Power of Imagination (Brill 2021), co-edited with Dirk Johannsen.Ī Practice of the Impossible? Pondering the Peculiarities of Modern Sigil Magick ![]() Otto is co-founder and one of the research coordinators of the Center for Advanced Studies - Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective - at FAU he is a board member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism and he is the scientific director of the Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices (RENSEP). He has a broad expertise in the history of “Western learned magic,” and is, since a few years, particularly interested in its modern and contemporary manifestations (‘magick’). ![]() His research focuses on magic and esotericism, where he combines different methodologies such as conceptual history, discourse analysis, social theory and ritual studies. CAS-E Centre for Advanced Studies - Erlangen | Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspectiveīernd-Christian Otto is a scholar of religion located at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. ![]()
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