Listening Like a Theosophist
This essay focuses on the Theosophical Society (est. 1875), an occult movement that, through the efforts of Annie Besant, became closely associated with early Indian anticolonial politics. While the Theosophists spread their doctrine through global networks of print, I argue for the importance of an...
| Autres titres: | Political Theology in India |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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| Dans: |
Political theology
Année: 2018, Volume: 19, Numéro: 8, Pages: 719-733 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Besant, Annie 1847-1933
/ Inde
/ Theosophische Gesellschaft
/ Politique
/ Conférence
/ Histoire 1890-1918
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux KBM Asie TJ Époque moderne TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Theosophy
B Listening B Annie Besant B Lectures B India |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | This essay focuses on the Theosophical Society (est. 1875), an occult movement that, through the efforts of Annie Besant, became closely associated with early Indian anticolonial politics. While the Theosophists spread their doctrine through global networks of print, I argue for the importance of another means by which they did so: the lecture. Through a close examination of a range of theosophical lectures and texts, I argue that the act of listening was central to the creation of a theosophical self which, in turn, was the starting point for a spiritually motivated and often very uneven vision of mass politics. By examining the potentials and limits of the intertwined acts of thinking, listening, and speaking, I chart out what it meant to listen like a Theosophist in early twentieth-century India. |
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| Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 7-8 November-December 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1537582 |