Nothing Personal: Blavatsky and Her Indian Interlocutors

The Theosophical Society was an influential transnational religious movement founded by H. P. Blavatsky and others in 1875. With its theology of the impersonal Divine, Theosophy was particularly influential on the New Age, which inherited a propensity to see the divine in impersonal terms. Offering...

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Main Author: Chajes, Julie (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Numen
Year: 2022, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-60
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Blavatsky, Helena P. 1831-1891 / Subba Row, Tiruvalum 1856-1890 / Chatterji, Mohini M. 1858-1936 / Theosophy / Advaita / Idea of God
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AX Inter-religious relations
AZ New religious movements
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
NBC Doctrine of God
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B J. S. Mill
B Brahmo Samaj
B Theosophical Society
B H. P. Blavatsky
B Mohini Chatterji
B impersonal Divine
B T. Subba Row
B Transculturality
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