Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society – PDF

The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. S. Olcott, H. P. Blavatsky, and others) is more and more changing into recognized for its influential position in moulding the different new cultural and spiritual panorama of the late nineteenth and the twentieth century, significantly as an early promoter of curiosity in Tibetan and Indian religions and philosophies. Despite this rising consciousness, lots of the central questions regarding the early Theosophical Society and the East stay largely unexplored. This ebook is the first scholarly anthology dedicated to this subject. It supplies many new particulars about the examine of Theosophy in the historical past of recent religions and Western esotericism. 978-0190853884, 978-0190853907, 978-0190853891 The essay in Imagining the East, (PDF) research how Theosophists throughout the formative interval understood the East and people of its folks with whom they got here into contact. The authors discover the relationship of the theosophical method with orientalism and facets of the historical past of politics, concepts, and tradition at massive and talk about how these theosophical or esoteric representations mirrored values and circumstances present in nineteenth-century mainstream mental tradition. The essays additionally take into account how the early Theosophical Society’s imagining of the East differed from mainstream ‘orientalism’ and the way the Theosophical Society’s mission in India was totally different from that of British colonialism and Christian missionaries.

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“Reading by means of this excellent assortment was a want experience — inspirational and far beneficial.” — Lukas Pokorny, Religious Studies Review “Imagining the East is a breakthrough assortment. It might simply change into considered one of the most essential scholarly ebooks in the examine of the Theosophical motion.” — W. Michael Ashcraft, Truman State University NOTE: The product only contains the ebook Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society in PDF. No access codes are included.