Imagining the East : the early Theosophical Society /
"The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. P. Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott, and others) is increasingly becoming recognized for its influential role in shaping the alternative new religious and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and perhaps especially for...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in Western esotericism.
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Table of Contents:
- Adventures in "Wisdom-land": Orientalist Discourse in Early Theosophy / Christopher Partridge
- Orientalist vs. Theosophist / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
- H. P. Blavatsky's Acquaintance with the Language of the Gods / James A. Santucci
- Early debates in the reception of Buddhism: Theosophy and Esoteric Buddhism / Tim Rudbøg
- H.P. Blavatsky's early reception of Hindu Philosophy / Tim Rudbøg and Erik Reenberg Sand
- The Mahatma Letters / Joscelyn Godwin
- "The real pure Yog": Yoga in the early Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor / Patrick D. Bowen
- Emergent Representations of the East: The Role of Theosophical Periodicals, 1879-1900 / Gillian McCann
- Theosophy and Modernism: A Shared but Secret History / David Weir
- Theosophy in the Bengal Renaissance / K. Paul Johnson
- The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj / Erik Reenberg Sand
- The West moves East: Blavatsky's "Universal Brotherhood" in India / Tim Rudbøg
- Allan Octavian Hume, Madame Blavatsky, and the Foundation of the Indian National Congress / Isaac Lubelsky
- Theosophy, Cultural Nationalism, and Home Rule / Mark Bevir
- Experiments with Theosophical Truth: Gandhi, esotericism, and global religious history / Michael Bergunder.