ContERN will be present at the 22nd Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR). The conference, titled Religions360, will take place in Bucharest from 20–25 September 2026. We have prepared two special panels:
Panel 1: Esotericism, Science, and Knowledge Claims in the Twenty-first Century
Chair: Grace Conway
Normativity in the Study of Esotericism Reconsidered: A Knowledge-Generating Practice
Adas Diržys
Revelation, Expertise, and Knowledge Claims in Contemporary Mormonism
Karen Swartz-Hammer
Strategies of Legitimation: Stigmatized Knowledge in the Discourse of UAP Esotericism
Aaron French
From Spermatorrhea to “No Nut November” – the Monster Lurking Beneath Scientific and Esoteric Discourses of Seminal Panic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
S. Brennan Kettelle
Panel 2: Esotericism, Politics, and Social Imaginaries
Chair: Milan Reith
Thermal Scheme of the Imponderable Embodiment: The Politicisation of the Subtle Body in the West German Alternative Milieu
David Dijkman
Non-linear Summonings: Political and Esoteric Rhizomes of the CCRU
Gregg Harmston
Esotericising Toynbee in the Order of Nine Angles
Matouš Mokrý
Esoteric Anti-Communism: Olavo de Carvalho and the Politics of Reaction in Brazil
Max Lokin
Contemporary Esotericism Research Network 