The Journal of CESNUR $ Volume 2, Issue 3 May—June 2018 $ The Journal of CESNUR $ Director-in-Charge | Direttore responsabile Marco Respinti Editor-in-Chief | Direttore Massimo Introvigne Center for Studies on New Religions, Turin, Italy Associate Editor | Vicedirettore PierLuigi Zoccatelli Pontifical Salesian University, Turin, Italy Editorial Board / International Consultants Milda Ališauskienė Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania Eileen Barker London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom Luigi Berzano University of Turin, Turin, Italy Antoine Faivre École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France Holly Folk Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA Liselotte Frisk Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden J. Gordon Melton Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA Susan Palmer McGill University, Montreal, Canada Stefania Palmisano University of Turin, Turin, Italy Bernadette Rigal-Cellard Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France Instructions for Authors and submission guidelines can be found on our website at www.cesnur.net. ISSN: 2532-2990 The Journal of CESNUR is published bi-monthly by CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions), Via Confienza 19, 10121 Torino, Italy. $ The Journal of CESNUR $ Volume 2, Issue 3, May—June 2018 Contents Articles 3 Introduction: Mysticism, the Esoteric Paradigm, and Oleg Maltsev PierLuigi Zoccatelli 14 In Search of Mysticism: Oleg Maltsev and the Applied Sciences Association Massimo Introvigne 36 No Fear No Regret: Oleg Maltsev and the Mythical History of Salvatore Giuliano Raffaella Di Marzio 54 Anti-Cult Wars in Europe: FECRIS, Alexander Dvorkin and Others Willy Fautré 66 Applied Sciences Association: An Annotated Bibliography and Filmography of Primary Sources The Journal of CESNUR $ The Journal of CESNUR $ Introduction: Mysticism, the Esoteric Paradigm, and Oleg Maltsev PierLuigi Zoccatelli Pontifical Salesian University
[email protected] ABSTRACT: This issue of The Journal of CESNUR is devoted to a Ukrainian movement, the Applied Sciences Association, and its founder, Oleg Maltsev.