Charles Stang and Jason Josephson-Storm on Theosophy and the Study of Religions

Listen to this episode from Oddcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP) on Spotify. What if the scientific study of religions, a.k.a. Comparative Religions, History of Religions, and so forth – the academic discipline wherein the academic study of western esotericism largely finds its home – was founded by, well, western esotericists? In this interview we examine the history of the history of religions with two historians of religions and find the Theosophical Society right there at the beginning.