Blavatsky and the Lives Sciences
This article considers how the matriarch of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) constructed the category “science,” situating this construal within a world in which the boundaries of “legitimate” science were more contested than they are today. Focusing on her teachings o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Aries
Year: 2018, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 258-286 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Theosophy
/ Rebirth
/ Natural sciences
/ Blavatsky, Helena P. 1831-1891
/ Contemporary
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
Helena Blavatsky
Theosophy
reincarnation
nineteenth-century science
evolution
The Unseen Universe
Ernst Haeckel
Darwinism
orthogenesis
recapitulationism
German Romanticism
materialism
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