Imagining the East : the early Theosophical Society /
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New York, NY :
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[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Approaches to the East. 1. Adventures in "Wisdom-land": Orientalist Discourse in Early Theosophy / Christopher Partridge
- 2. Orientalist vs. Theosophist / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
- Part 2: Representations of the East. 3. H. P. Blavatsky's Acquaintance with the Language of the Gods / James A. Santucci
- 4. Early debates in the reception of Buddhism: Theosophy and Esoteric Buddhism / Tim Rudbøg
- 5. H.P. Blavatsky's early reception of Hindu Philosophy / Tim Rudbøg and Erik Reenberg Sand
- 6. The Mahatma Letters / Joscelyn Godwin
- 7. "The real pure Yog": Yoga in the early Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor / Patrick D. Bowen
- 8. Emerging Representations of the East: The Role of Theosophical Periodicals, 1879-1900 / Gillian McCann
- 9. Theosophy and Modernism: A Shared but Secret History / David Weir
- Part 3: Interactions with the East. 10. Theosophy in the Bengal Renaissance / K. Paul Johnson
- 11. The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj / Erik Reenberg Sand
- 12. The West moves East: Blavatsky's "Universal Brotherhood" in India / Tim Rudbøg
- 13. Allan Octavian Hume, Madame Blavatsky, and the Foundation of the Indian National Congress / Isaac Lubelsky
- 14. Theosophy, Cultural Nationalism, and Home Rule / Mark Bevir
- 15. Experiments with Theosophical Truth: Gandhi, esotericism, and global religious history / Michael Bergunder
- Afterword / Tim Rudbøg and Erik Reenberg Sand.