“Do what thou wilt shall be the entire of the Legislation,’ proclaimed Aleister Crowley. And if thou will is to get a complicated educational diploma, the College of Exeter’s new Centre for Magic and Esotericism seems like a unbelievable place to do it. The brand new interdisciplinary middle is providing a Grasp of Arts diploma in Magic and Occult Sciences. Earlier than you get all debunky, notice that the curriculum is not targeted on being a practitioner of magick however moderately exploring “the lengthy and various historical past of esotericism, witchcraft, ritual magic, occult sciences, divination, and associated subjects.”
“This MA will permit folks to reexamine the belief that the West is the place of rationalism and science, whereas the remainder of the world is a spot of magic and superstition,” says this system’s director, professor Emily Selove. “Magic and the occult have been and stay an unlimited a part of Western tradition, and it’s silly to disclaim this or to refuse to take it significantly. Rigorous examine of those topics permit us to reexamine the connection of people to the pure world and of various human cultures to 1 one other.”
From the Centre for Magic and Esotericism:
By housing this program within the Institute of Arab and Islamic Research, we place the Arabo-Islamic cultural heritage again the place it belongs within the centre of those research and within the historical past of the “West.” Decolonisation, the exploration of different epistemologies, feminism, and anti-racism are on the core of this programme[…]
A pattern checklist of non-obligatory module subjects contains:
Oral Historical past, Materials Tradition, The Western Dragon in Literature Lore and Artwork, Researching Theatre and Efficiency, The Legend of King Arthur, Palaeography, The Philosophy of Psychedelics, Science Know-how and Society, Theorizing the Center East, The Sovereign the Good and Society in Islamic Thought, Themes in Archaeological Principle and Observe, Writing Girls within the Center Ages, The E book in Medieval and Early Fashionable Europe, and Gender Society and Tradition in Early Fashionable Europe