Rejected Religion Introductory Episode 1: What do I mean by 'Rejected'?

This episode discusses what I mean by 'rejected', plus some important terms and concepts that will act as a foundation for the interviews to come.

Reference material used in this episode:

Wouter Hanegraaff, Western Estotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Olav Hammer's chapter, "Esotericism in New Religious Movements," found in The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

Christopher Partridge's "Introduction," found in The Occult World

Two more books that might be of interest are -

Contemporary Esotericism, edited by Egil Asprem and Kennet Granholm

New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought, by Wouter Hanegraaff (with special attention on Chapter One about "Channeling" and Chapter Seven about "Meta-Empirical and Human Beings"