Introduction: What is "Esotericism" in East Asia? Historical and Methodological Perspectives, Chienhui Chuang (Kobe Women's University, Japan), Sangyun Han (Tohoku University, Japan), and Julian Strube (University of Göttingen, Germany) Part 1: Naming and Framing the "Esoteric" and "Occult" 1. Darkness, Strangeness, and Monstrosity: The Affectiveness of Kaii in Japanese Studies of the "Occult", Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University, Japan) 2. Western Esotericism with Chinese Characteristics: Translations and Translators in the People's Republic, David Marino (University of Göttingen, Germany) 3. The Heresy of History: The Category of Gishi in Modern Japanese (Oc)culture, Orion Klautau (Tohoku University, Japan) 4. Who Talks About Esoteric Shinto, and Why?, Avery Morrow (Brown University, USA) 5. For Now We See Through a Distorted Lens, Darkly; in Search of Buddhist Master, Toshio Akai (Kobe Gakuin University, Japan) 6, Delineating the "Esoteric": The Development of the "Identity of the Purport of Perfect and Esoteric Teachings" (enmitsu itchi) in Medieval Tendai Buddhism, Takahiko Kameyama (Kyoto University, Japan) Part 2: Reconfiguring Esotericism through Politics and Transnationalism 7. The Theosophical Movement and Asian Unity: Perspectives from Pre-War China and Japan, Chienhui Chuang (Kobe Women's University, Japan) 8. Japan's Occult Monsters: Esotericism and the New Left in Post-1960's Japan, Hidehiko Kurita (Bukkyo University, Japan) 9.

The Transformation of Korean Dahnhak through Globalization: The New Age Movement and the Worldwide Expansion of Dahn World, Mitsuaki Sassa (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) 10. The Healing Spirit in Korea, James Flowers (Kyung Hee University, South Korea).