Old Diary Leaves: 1883-87
Author: Henry Steel Olcott
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: Henry Steel Olcott
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Steel Olcott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-05-19
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1108072917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume covers the period 1883-1887 (during which Madame Blavatsky resigns) in the history of the Theosophical Society.
Author: Timothy Miller
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780791407172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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.
Author: Julie Chajes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-01-02
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0190909153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780835606387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of Henry Steel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society in 1875 and a central figure in the Buddhist revival in India and Ceylon.
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9004235973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew 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
Published: 2015-08-17
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9004300694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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
Published: 2009-05-15
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0226493245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning 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
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK