The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj
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The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj. / Sand, Erik Reenberg.
Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society. ed. / Tim Rudbøg; Erik Reenberg Sand. New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. p. 253-271 (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism, Vol. 5).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj
AU - Sand, Erik Reenberg
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This chapter explores the relationship between the Theosophical Society and the Indian Arya Samaj during the period between 1878 and 1882. While some of the overall details of these events are well known, this chapter offers new insight into how the two parties imagined and misrepresented each other and how these misrepresentations were reflections of the wider contemporary cultural representations of East and West. The chapter charts the relationship between the founders of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, and Swami Dayananda Saraswati of the Arya Samaj over the course of their initial written correspondence and their subsequent personal encounters in India, which began enthusiastically on both sides but ultimately ended in a public breaking of ties.
AB - This chapter explores the relationship between the Theosophical Society and the Indian Arya Samaj during the period between 1878 and 1882. While some of the overall details of these events are well known, this chapter offers new insight into how the two parties imagined and misrepresented each other and how these misrepresentations were reflections of the wider contemporary cultural representations of East and West. The chapter charts the relationship between the founders of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, and Swami Dayananda Saraswati of the Arya Samaj over the course of their initial written correspondence and their subsequent personal encounters in India, which began enthusiastically on both sides but ultimately ended in a public breaking of ties.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Esoterisme
KW - The Theosophical Society
KW - Indien
KW - Cultural Interaction
U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780190853884.003.0012
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780190853884.003.0012
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 97801908533884
T3 - Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism
SP - 253
EP - 271
BT - Imagining the East
A2 - Rudbøg, Tim
A2 - Sand, Erik Reenberg
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - New York
ER -
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