Theosophical Appropriations
Author | : Julie Chajes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Cabala |
ISBN | : 9789655361797 |
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Author | : Julie Chajes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Cabala |
ISBN | : 9789655361797 |
Author | : Hans Martin Krämer |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2020-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438480431 |
Theosophy across Boundaries brings a global history approach to the study of esotericism, highlighting the important role of Theosophy in the general histories of religion, science, philosophy, art, and politics. The first half of the book consists of seven perspectives on the activities of the Theosophical Society in very different regional contexts, ranging from India, Vietnam, China, and Japan to Victorian Britain and Israel, shedding new light on the entanglement of "Western" and "Oriental" ideas around 1900. The second half explores specific cultural influences that Theosophy exerted in the spheres of literature, art, and politics, using case studies from Sri Lanka, Burma, India, Japan, Ireland, Germany, and Russia. The examples clearly show that Theosophy was part of a truly global movement, thus providing an outstanding example of the complex entanglements of the global religious history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2024-06-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004694161 |
Since its emergence in the nineteenth century, the Theosophical Society has wielded enormous influence across diverse fields, none more so than the study of religion. This volume explores this legacy in North America, Europe, and India, demonstrating its impact on the conceptualization of “religion” and its influence on methods of comparison. Unveiling overlooked entanglements, the volume challenges standard narratives in the history of religious studies and interrogates the deliberate neglect of theosophy’s influence in the “secular” academy. In doing so, the work confronts lingering ghosts, urging a reappraisal that enriches the study of religion and offers prescriptions for its future.
Author | : Sarah Perez |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2024-09-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 311090988X |
This book offers new theoretical insights into religious, esoteric, and philosophical practices and narratives that deal with "intentional transformative experiences." Exceptional life-changing experiences are often believed to be beyond the individual's control--they are thought to "simply happen." However, many individuals actively and self-reflectively search for transformative experiences. Intentional Transformative Experiences provides analyses of such intentionally sought experiences in different spiritual, religious, and esoteric milieus. Case studies range from South and Central Asian traditions to Western esoteric practices, compare autobiographical narratives of self-cultivation, and explore attempts to systematize intentional transformative experiences. Next to applying established theoretical frameworks, such as the cognitive science of religion and philosophy, this volume also includes considerations on subsets of transformative experiences such as the dichotomy of intentionality and unintentionality, risk and failure, as well as the transformation of others instead of one's own self. The result is an important contribution for researchers who deal with narratives or practices that include "transformative experiences."
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Theosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Theosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yves Mühlematter |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2022-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110794799 |
The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. These initiatory steps are connected to an idea of evolutionary self-development by means of a set of virtues that are relative to the individual’s position on the path of evolution. The central thesis is that these stages were translated from the “Hindu” tradition to the “Theosophical” tradition through multifaceted “hybridization processes” in which several Indian members of the Theosophical Society partook. Starting with Annie Besant’s early Theosophy, the stages of initiation are traced through Blavatsky’s work to Manilal Dvivedi and T. Subba Row, both Indian members of the Theosophical Society, and then on to the Sanâtana Dharma Text Books. In 1898, the English Theosophist Annie Besant and the Indian Theosophist Bhagavan Das together founded the Central Hindu College, Benares, which became the nucleus around which the Benares Hindu University was instituted in 1915. In this context the Sanâtana Dharma Text Books were published. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant’s pedagogy, which she implemented in the Central Hindu College in Benares. In doing so, he succeeds in making intelligible how “esoteric” knowledge was transferred to public institutions and how a broader public could be reached as a result. The dissertation has been awarded the ESSWE PhD Thesis prize 2022 by the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.
Author | : S. R. Goldstein-Sabbah |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900446056X |
Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism explores different components of Baghdadi participation in global Jewish networks through the modernization of communal leadership, satellite communities, transnational Jewish philanthropy and secular education during the Hashemite period (1920-1951).
Author | : Brian Ogren |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2020-05-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004428143 |
Kabbalah in America includes chapters from leading experts in a variety of fields and is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the title subject from colonial times until the present. As the first of its kind, it will set the tone for all future scholarship on the subject.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1677 |
Release | : 2020-07-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004432280 |
The Handbook of Hinduism in Europe portrays and analyses Hindu traditions in every country in Europe. It presents the main Hindu communities, religious groups, forms and teachings present in the continent and shows that Hinduism have become a major religion in Europe.