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Author : Henry Steel Olcott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old Diary Leaves: 1883-87 written by Henry Steel Olcott and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Steel Olcott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108072917
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Old Diary Leaves 1883-7 written by Henry Steel Olcott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the period 1883-1887 (during which Madame Blavatsky resigns) in the history of the Theosophical Society.
Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791407172
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book When Prophets Die written by Timothy Miller and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the charismatic founder/leader of a religious movement dies, the popular belief is that the movement usually disintegrates. However, many new religions not only survive but prosper, despite leadership transition. In this book, prominent scholars examine what happened to eleven new movements following the deaths of their leaders, and why. An Introduction by J. Gordon Melton serves to integrate the case studies.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Theosophist written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Chajes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190909153
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Recycled Lives written by Julie Chajes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief over the last century and a half is directly traceable to the impact of the nineteenth century's largest and most influential Western esoteric movement, the Theosophical Society. In Recycled Lives, Julie Chajes looks at the rebirth doctrines of the matriarch of Theosophy, the controversial occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891). Examining her teachings in detail, Chajes places them in the context of multiple dimensions of nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural life. In particular, she explores Blavatsky's readings (and misreadings) of Spiritualist currents, scientific theories, Platonism, and Hindu and Buddhist thought. These in turn are set in relief against broader nineteenth-century American and European trends. The chapters come together to reveal the contours of a modern perspective on reincarnation that is inseparable from the nineteenth-century discourses within which it emerged, and which has shaped how people in the West tend to view reincarnation today.
Author : Howard Murphet
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835606387
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Yankee Beacon of Buddhist Light written by Howard Murphet and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Henry Steel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society in 1875 and a central figure in the Buddhist revival in India and Ceylon.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004235973
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the Theosophical Current written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few religious currents have been as influential as the Theosophical. Yet few currents have been so under-researched, and the Brill Handbook of the Theosophical Current thus represents pioneering research. A first section surveys the main people and events involved in the Theosophical Society from its inception to today, and outlines the Theosophical worldview. A second, substantial section covers most significant religions to emerge in the wake of the Theosophical Society - Anthroposophy, the Point Loma community, the I AM religious activity, the Summit Lighthouse Movement, the New Age, theosophical UFO religions, and numerous others. Finally, the interaction of the Theosophical current with contemporary culture - including gender relations, art, popular fiction, historiography, and science - are discussed at length.
Author : Patrick D. Bowen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004300694
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1 written by Patrick D. Bowen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975 is the first in-depth study of the thousands of white Americans who embraced Islam between 1800 and 1975. Drawing from little-known archives, interviews, and rare books and periodicals, Patrick D. Bowen unravels the complex social and religious factors that led to the emergence of a wide variety of American Muslim and Sufi conversion movements. While some of the more prominent Muslim and Sufi converts—including Alexander Webb, Maryam Jameelah, and Samuel Lewis—have received attention in previous studies, White American Muslims before 1975 is the first book to highlight previously unknown but important figures, including Thomas M. Johnson, Louis Glick, Nadirah Osman, and T.B. Irving.
Author : Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226493245
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Buddhism and Science written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both Buddhists and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed the compatibility of Buddhism and science. Their assertions have ranged from modest claims about the efficacy of meditation for mental health to grander declarations that the Buddha himself anticipated the theories of relativity, quantum physics and the big bang more than two millennia ago. In Buddhism and Science, Donald S. Lopez Jr. is less interested in evaluating the accuracy of such claims than in exploring how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of understanding the inner and outer universe have been so persistently linked. Lopez opens with an account of the rise and fall of Mount Meru, the great peak that stands at the center of the flat earth of Buddhist cosmography—and which was interpreted anew once it proved incompatible with modern geography. From there, he analyzes the way in which Buddhist concepts of spiritual nobility were enlisted to support the notorious science of race in the nineteenth century. Bringing the story to the present, Lopez explores the Dalai Lama’s interest in scientific discoveries, as well as the implications of research on meditation for neuroscience. Lopez argues that by presenting an ancient Asian tradition as compatible with—and even anticipating—scientific discoveries, European enthusiasts and Asian elites have sidestepped the debates on the relevance of religion in the modern world that began in the nineteenth century and still flare today. As new discoveries continue to reshape our understanding of mind and matter, Buddhism and Science will be indispensable reading for those fascinated by religion, science, and their often vexed relation.
Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Collected Writings: 1886-1887 (1st ed., 1958) written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anil Seal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521062749
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of Indian Nationalism written by Anil Seal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1968-03-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Dr Seal analyses the social roots of the rather confused stirrings towards political organisations of the 1870s and 1880s which brought about the foundation of the Indian National Congress. He is concerned not only with the politicians, viceroys and civil servants but with the social structure of those parts of India where political movements were most prominent at the time. The emphasis of this work is more upon Indian politics than upon British policy: the associations in Bengal and Bombay, the genesis of the Congress and the Muslim breakaway which accentuated the political divisions in India.
Author : Hwansoo Ilmee Kim
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175925
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The Korean Buddhist Empire written by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the first part of the twentieth century, Korean Buddhists, despite living under colonial rule, reconfigured sacred objects, festivals, urban temples, propagation—and even their own identities—to modernize and elevate Korean Buddhism. By focusing on six case studies, this book highlights the centrality of transnational relationships in the transformation of colonial Korean Buddhism.Hwansoo Ilmee Kim examines how Korean, Japanese, and other Buddhists operating in colonial Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Manchuria, and beyond participated in and were significantly influenced by transnational forces, even as Buddhists of Korea and other parts of Asia were motivated by nationalist and sectarian interests. More broadly, the cases explored in the The Korean Buddhist Empire reveal that, while Japanese Buddhism exerted the most influence, Korean Buddhism was (as Japanese Buddhism was itself) deeply influenced by developments in China, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Europe, and the United States, as well as by Christianity."
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195156836
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Controversial New Religions written by James R. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the new religious movements (NRMs) that have attracted the most scholarly attention over the past few years, this text includes groups such as the Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate and Falun Gong, explaining their ethos and beliefs, as well as examining more controversial accusations.
Author : Michael K. Jerryson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199362386
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism written by Michael K. Jerryson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism offers a comprehensive collection of work by leading scholars in the field. They examine the historical development of Buddhist traditions throughout the world, from traditional settings like India, Japan, and Tibet, to the less well known regions of Latin America, Africa, and Oceania.
Author : Erik Reenberg Sand
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ISBN 13 : 0190853883
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Imagining the East written by Erik Reenberg Sand and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Geoffrey Oddie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136773843
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Hindu and Christian in South-East India written by Geoffrey Oddie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. The purpose of this study is to examine religious institutions, trends and developments in two adjoining districts - thereby adopting a level of focus which falls somewhere between these two extremes of the broadly-based overview and the detailed localized investigation of single religious establishments or movements. It has also provided scope for comparison and a degree of generalization.
Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Collected Writings written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1950 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive edition of HPB's writings in 15 volumes. Volume 7 is from 1886 to 1887, and includes articles such as: 'Have Animals Souls?'; 'The Theosophical Mahatmas'; 'Ancient Magic and Modern Science'; 'Theories about Reincarnation and Spirits'; 'The Original Programme of the Theosophical Society'.
