Petsche, Johanna J. M. 2015. Gurdjieff and Music: The Gurdjieff/de Hartmann Piano Music and its Esoteric Significance. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill. xvi + 279pp. Ebook. US$130. E-ISBN: 9789004284449. Hbk. US$142.00. ISBN-13: 96789004284425

Author Biography

• Carole M. Cusack, University of Syndey

  Carole M. Cusack is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney. She trained as a medievalist and her doctorate was published as Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples (Cassell, 1998). Since the late 1990s she has taught in contemporary religious trends, publishing on pilgrimage and tourism, modern Pagan religions, new religious movements, and religion and popular culture. She is the author of Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010), The Sacred Tree: Ancient and Medieval Manifestations (Cambridge Scholars, 2011) and Anime, Religion and Spirituality: Profane and Sacred Worlds in Contemporary Japan (with Katharine Buljan, Equinox 2015). She is editor of Literature & Aesthetics (the journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics).