Egil Asprem is Associate Professor of History of Religions at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions, and Gender Studies, Stockholm University, and the author of Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture, also published by SUNY Press.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction the Limits of Reason

Part 1. From Process to Problem
1. From Process to Problem
2. Science as Worldview

Part 2. New Natural Theologies
3. Brave New World: An Introduction to Part Two
4. Physical Science in a Modern Mode
5. The Meaning of Life: Mechanism and Purpose in the Sciences of Life and Mind
6. Five Schools of Natural Theology: Reconciling Science and Religion

Part 3. Laboratories of Enchantment
7. Against Agnosticism: Psychical Research and the Naturalisation of the Supernatural
8. Laboratories of Enchantment: Parapsychology in Search of a Paradigm
9. Professionals Out of the Ordinary: How Parapsychology Became a University Discipline

Part 4. Esoteric Epistemologies
10. Esoteric Epistemologies
11. The Problems of a Gnostic Science: The Case of Theosophy's Occult Chemistry
12. Perceiving Higher Worlds: Two Perspectives
Conclusion Implications for the Study of Science, Religion, and Esotericism
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects