List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Lackner 1 Divination and Mediumship Compared: a Dialogical Essay on the Logic of Ritual Consultations in Senegal and Brazil Knut Graw and Kelly E. Hayes 2 Solomon, King of Spirits: Historical and Ethnographic Explorations Maryam Abbasi, Conerly Casey and Bernd-Christian Otto 3 Converging Cosmologies: Esoteric Practices of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Daoism in Aleister Crowley's Thelema Keith Edward Cantú and Lennert Gesterkamp 4 Becoming Superhumans: the Crossroads of Late-Soviet and Western Esotericism Birgit Menzel and Anna Ozhiganova 5 Moral Economies of Divination: Chinese and Yoruba Technologies, Ethics, Wisdom, and Affect in Comparison Michael Lackner and Raquel Romberg 6 Resilience and Relationalism: the Persistence of Marginalised Ritual Practices in Indonesia, Bhutan, and Nigeria Conerly Casey, Dendup Chophel and Isabell Herrmans.