Blavatsky and Monotheism: Towards the Historicisation of a Critical Category
Madame Blavatsky (1831–1891), the influential occultist, transvalued the category of monotheism, abandoning, in The Secret Doctrine (1888), the positive interpretation that it had been given in Isis Unveiled (1877). This reversal of the prevailing Enlightenment-based valuation of monotheism was rela...
| Published in: | Journal of religion in Europe |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Journal of religion in Europe
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Blavatsky, Helena P. 1831-1891, The secret doctrine
/ Monotheism
/ Blavatsky, Helena P. 1831-1891, Isis unveiled
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AZ New religious movements |
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Monotheism
Theosophy
H. P. Blavatsky
Esotericism
Nineteenth Century
Egyptology
Philology
Zoroastrianism
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| Summary: | Madame Blavatsky (1831–1891), the influential occultist, transvalued the category of monotheism, abandoning, in The Secret Doctrine (1888), the positive interpretation that it had been given in Isis Unveiled (1877). This reversal of the prevailing Enlightenment-based valuation of monotheism was related to Blavatsky’s construction of identity as an esotericist. Her discussions must be situated within a wider “invention” of monotheism as a category (taking place most significantly from the early-nineteenth century), and they can be contextualised in relation to the contemporaneous philological, Egyptological, and Orientalist scholarship on which she drew. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-00902008 |