India and the occult :the influence ...
Djurdjevic, Gordan,

 

  • India and the occult :the influence of South Asian spirituality on modern western occultism /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 130.9182/1
    書名/作者: India and the occult : : the influence of South Asian spirituality on modern western occultism // Gordan Djurdjevic.
    作者: Djurdjevic, Gordan,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: Occultism.
    標題: Tantrism.
    標題: Yoga.
    標題: RELIGION / Comparative Religion.
    標題: RELIGION / Eastern.
    標題: RELIGION / Spirituality.
    ISBN: 113740499X (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137404992 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: The Idea of India in the Imaginary of Western Occultism 1. A Web of Relations : Interpreting Indian Yoga and Tantra as Forms of Esotericism -- 2. The Great Beast as a Tantric Hero : The Role of Yoga and Tantra in Aleister Crowley's Magick -- 3. Solve et Coagula: Attitudes toward the Ambrosial Aspects of Human Seed in Certain Yogic Traditions and in Sexual Magick of Aleister Crowley -- 4. Dion Fortune : The Shakti of the Age -- 5. Secrets of Typhonian Tantra : Kenneth Grant and Western Occult Interpretations of Indian Esotericism -- 6. When Yoga Becomes Magick : Dadaji Mahendranath, His Disciples, and the East-West Order.
    摘要、提要註: "At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Yoga and Tantra become attractive to some major exponents of Western occultism. In a gesture typical of the syncretic tendency in Esotericism, Yoga is by these Westerners often identified as an Eastern form of magic: the two disciplines were considered to share similar theoretical perspective, the difference in their methods notwithstanding. India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality among Western occultists through several case studies. Unlike existing works focusing on the activities of Theosophical Society, it looks at the 'hard-core' occultism, in particular the British twentieth century currents associated with Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Grant, and related individuals and groups. Without denying the specificity of its Western historical manifestation, it suggests that esotericism is a category that may be applied as a conceptual tool in order to interpret aspects of non-Western religious thought and practice"--
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137404992
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