The Eranos conference tradition in the postwar occult-intellectual milieu

Record summary

The Eranos conferences at Ascona brought together scholars and interpreters of comparative religion, mythology, psychology, Asian traditions, and Western esotericism. During the postwar decades, the circle helped circulate Jungian, phenomenological, and perennialist approaches to symbols, ritual, and mystical experience. It matters for comparing academic and initiatory modes of knowledge without collapsing them into one another. Individual conference themes, speakers, and publication dates must be verified in the Eranos archives and annual volumes, since broad summaries can obscure disagreement.