Manon Hedenborg White is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Malmö University (Sweden). She holds a PhD in the History of Religions from Uppsala University (Sweden). Her first monograph The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism was published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. She is co-director (with Christine Ferguson) of the ESSWE Network on Esotericism, Gender, and Sexuality and Review Editor of the International Journal for the Study of New Religions (IJSNR). Her main research focus is Western esotericism, New Religious Movements, and contemporary spirituality, and she is especially interested in issues of gender, sexuality, authority, and women’s roles and leadership.
