{"id":1081,"date":"2008-11-06T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2008-11-06T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T23:09:00","slug":"books-at-aar-that-i-could-not-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Books at AAR That I Could Not Resist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Checking some of the post-AAR blogging<\/a>, I see people listing book purchases from the publishers’ exhibit. Here are mine:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction<\/a>\"\". (I should also get Kocku’s Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge<\/a>\"\", and I need something by the discipline’s \u00e9minence grise, Antoine Faivre<\/a>, such as Access to Western Esotericism<\/a>\"\".)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Doug Cowan’s Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen<\/a>\"\". That’s research material too. Doug is one of those scholars who manages to teach effectively, write a lot, and still have a life.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ordered for later delivery, Ronald Hutton’s Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain.<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Checking some of the post-AAR blogging, I see people listing book purchases from the publishers’ exhibit. Here are mine: \u2022 The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction. (I should also get Kocku’s Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge, and I need something by the discipline’s \u00e9minence grise, Antoine Faivre, such as Access to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=318","url_meta":{"origin":1081,"position":0},"title":"Pagan Studies in the Academy\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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