Theosophy across Boundaries
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8042-8 (ISBN)
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.
Hans Martin Krämer is Professor of Japanese Studies at Heidelberg University, Germany, and the author of Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan. Julian Strube is a Research Fellow in Religious Studies at the University of Münster, Germany.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Theosophy across Boundaries
Julian Strube and Hans Martin Krämer
Part I: New Perspectives on Theosophy
1. Western Esotericism and the Orient in the First Theosophical Society
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
2. Hinduism, Theosophy, and the Bhagavad Gita within a Global Religious History of the Nineteenth Century
Michael Bergunder
3. Theosophying the Vietnamese Religious Landscape: A Circulatory History of a Western Esoteric Movement in Southern Vietnam
Jérémy Jammes
4. Theosophical Movements in Modern China: The Education Provided by Theosophists at the Shanghai International Settlement
Chuang Chienhui
5. Absence Unveiled? The Early Theosophical Society and the Entanglement of History and Historiography
Ulrich Harlass
6. Affinity and Estrangement: Transnational Theosophy in Germany and India during the Colonial Era (1878–1933)
Perry Myers
7. "To Study Judaism in the Light of Theosophy and Theosophy in the Light of Judaism": The Association of Hebrew Theosophists and Its Missions to the Jews and Gentiles
Boaz Huss
Part II: Theosophy in Literature, the Arts, and Politics
8. International Religious Organizations in a Colonial World: The Maha-Bodhi Society in Arakan
Laurence Cox and Alicia Turner
9. Euro-Asian Political Activist and Spiritual Seeker: Paul Richard and Theosophy
Hans Martin Krämer
10. An Irish Theosophist's Pan-Asianism or Fant-asia? James Cousins and Gurcharan Singh
Hashimoto Yorimitsu
11. Theosophy as a Transnational Network: The Commission of the Golconde Dormitory in Puducherry (1935–ca. 1948)
Helena Čapková
12. From Healer to Shaman: Theosophy and the Making of Esoteric Bali
Yan Suarsana
13. Effects of Theosophy on Russian Cultural History
Björn Seidel-Dreffke
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.01.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 19 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Anthroposophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-8042-3 / 1438480423 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-8042-8 / 9781438480428 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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