Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Western Esotericism and the Orient in the First Theosophical Society 29
6. Hinduism, Theosophy, and the Bhagavad Gita within a Global Religious History of the Nineteenth Century 65
7. Theosophying the Vietnamese Religious Landscape 109
8. Theosophical Movements in Modern China 149
9. Absence Unveiled? 179
10. Affinity and Estrangement 217
11. “To Study Judaism in the Light of Theosophy and Theosophy in the Light of Judaism” 253
12. International Religious Organizations in a Colonial World 281
13. Euro-Asian Political Activist and Spiritual Seeker 317
14. An Irish Theosophist’s Pan-Asianism or Fant-asia? 345
15. Theosophy as a Transnational Network 373
16. From Healer to Shaman 401
17. Effects of Theosophy on Russian Cultural History 425
18. Contributors 455
19. Index 461