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Auteur(s) : Chajes, Julie
Titre(s) : Recycled lives [Texte imprimé] : a history of reincarnation in Blavatsky's theosophy / Julie Chajes
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-215 p.) ; 25 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in Western esotericism
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in Western esotericism
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 191-210. Index
"A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions
believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief over the last century
and a half is the direct result of the impact of the nineteenth-century's largest
and most influential Western esoteric movement, the Theosophical Society. In Recycled
Lives, Julie Chajes explains and historicises the rebirth doctrines of the matriarch
of Theosophy, the controversial occultist, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891).
Examining her teachings in detail, Chajes contextualises them in light of multiple
dimensions of nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural life. In particular, this
book 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"
Sujet(s) : Blavatsky, H. P. (1831-1891) -- Critique et interprétation
Théosophie -- Influence
Réincarnation
Indice(s) Dewey :
299.934 (23e éd.) = Théosophie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190909130 (rel.). - ISBN 0190909137. - ISBN 9780190909147 (erroné). - ISBN
9780190909154 (erroné). - ISBN 9780190909161 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457052949
Notice n° :
FRBNF45705294
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Table des matières : Blavatsky and reincarnation ; Isis unveiled and metempsychosis ; Reincarnation
in The secret doctrine ; Spiritualism ; Platonism ; Science ; Hindu and Buddhist
thought.