Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780190853884 |
ISBN10: | 0190853883 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 400 pages |
Size: | 163x239x33 mm |
Weight: | 726 g |
Language: | English |
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Imagining the East
The Early Theosophical Society
Publisher: OUP USA
Date of Publication: 20 February 2020
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Short description:
The essays in Imagining the East explore how Theosophists during the formative period imagined the religions and cultures of the East. The authors examine the relationship of such representations to orientalism, the history of ideas, politics, and culture at large and discuss how these esoteric or theosophical representations mirrored conditions and values current in nineteenth-century mainstream intellectual culture. The essays also look at how the early Theosophical Society's representations of the East differed from mainstream 'orientalism' and how the Theosophical Society's mission in India was distinct from that of British colonialism and Christian missionaries.
Long description:
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 the twentieth century, especially as an early promoter of interest in Indian and Tibetan religions and philosophies. Despite this increasing awareness, many of the central questions relating to the early Theosophical Society and the East remain largely unexplored. This book is the first scholarly anthology dedicated to this topic. It offers many new details about the study of Theosophy in the history of modern religions and Western esotericism.
The essays in Imagining the East explore how Theosophists during the formative period understood the East and those of its people with whom they came into contact. The authors examine the relationship of the theosophical approach with orientalism and aspects of the history of ideas, politics, and culture at large and discuss how these esoteric or theosophical representations mirrored conditions and values current in nineteenth-century mainstream intellectual culture. The essays also look at how the early Theosophical Society's imagining of the East differed from mainstream 'orientalism' and how the Theosophical Society's mission in India was distinct from that of British colonialism and Christian missionaries.
Reading through this superb collection was a pleasure ride - inspirational and much recommended.
The essays in Imagining the East explore how Theosophists during the formative period understood the East and those of its people with whom they came into contact. The authors examine the relationship of the theosophical approach with orientalism and aspects of the history of ideas, politics, and culture at large and discuss how these esoteric or theosophical representations mirrored conditions and values current in nineteenth-century mainstream intellectual culture. The essays also look at how the early Theosophical Society's imagining of the East differed from mainstream 'orientalism' and how the Theosophical Society's mission in India was distinct from that of British colonialism and Christian missionaries.
Reading through this superb collection was a pleasure ride - inspirational and much recommended.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Approaches to the East
1. Christopher Partridge
Adventures in "Wisdom-land": Orientalist Discourse in Early Theosophy
2. Donald Lopez
Orientalist vs. Theosophist
Part 2: Representations of the East
3. James A. Santucci
H. P. Blavatsky's Acquaintance with the Language of the Gods
4. Tim Rudb?g
Early debates in the reception of Buddhism: Theosophy and Esoteric Buddhism
5. Tim Rudb?g and Erik Reenberg Sand
H. P. Blavatsky's early reception of Hindu Philosophy
6. Joscelyn Godwin
The Mahatma Letters
7. Patrick D. Bowen
"The real pure Yog": Yoga in the early Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
8. Gillian McCann
Emerging Representations of the East: The Role of Theosophical
Periodicals 1879-1900
9. David Weir
Theosophy and Modernism: A Shared but Secret History
Part 3: Interactions with the East
10. K. Paul Johnson
Theosophy in the Bengal Renaissance
11. Erik Reenberg Sand
The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj
12. Tim Rudb?g
The West moves East, Blavatsky's discourse for Universal Brotherhood in India
13. Isaac Lubelsky
Allan Octavian Hume, Madame Blavatsky, and the Foundation of the
Indian National Congress
14. Mark Bevir
Theosophy, Cultural Nationalism, and Home Rule
15. Michael Bergunder
Experiments with Theosophical Truth: Gandhi, esotericism, and global religious history
Introduction
Part 1: Approaches to the East
1. Christopher Partridge
Adventures in "Wisdom-land": Orientalist Discourse in Early Theosophy
2. Donald Lopez
Orientalist vs. Theosophist
Part 2: Representations of the East
3. James A. Santucci
H. P. Blavatsky's Acquaintance with the Language of the Gods
4. Tim Rudb?g
Early debates in the reception of Buddhism: Theosophy and Esoteric Buddhism
5. Tim Rudb?g and Erik Reenberg Sand
H. P. Blavatsky's early reception of Hindu Philosophy
6. Joscelyn Godwin
The Mahatma Letters
7. Patrick D. Bowen
"The real pure Yog": Yoga in the early Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
8. Gillian McCann
Emerging Representations of the East: The Role of Theosophical
Periodicals 1879-1900
9. David Weir
Theosophy and Modernism: A Shared but Secret History
Part 3: Interactions with the East
10. K. Paul Johnson
Theosophy in the Bengal Renaissance
11. Erik Reenberg Sand
The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj
12. Tim Rudb?g
The West moves East, Blavatsky's discourse for Universal Brotherhood in India
13. Isaac Lubelsky
Allan Octavian Hume, Madame Blavatsky, and the Foundation of the
Indian National Congress
14. Mark Bevir
Theosophy, Cultural Nationalism, and Home Rule
15. Michael Bergunder
Experiments with Theosophical Truth: Gandhi, esotericism, and global religious history