Esotericism, Mysticism and the Politics of Transcendence in Modern Asia

Dr. Soumen Mukherjee, Prof. Toshio AKAI (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2025
Anthem Press (Verlag)
978-1-83999-042-7 (ISBN)

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In this seminal edited collection, scholars from different fields critically examine histories of esotericism, mysticism and occultism in modern Asia, understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, paving eventually the way for the so-called ‘New Age’.

This invaluable anthology examines histories of esotericism, mysticism and occultism in modern Asia, understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, and paving eventually the way for the so-called ‘New Age’. The idea of ‘histories’, in plural, has to do with the complexities of their lineages, the many pathways through which their affinities, encounters and entanglements flowed and/or developed during the period under review. The contributors hail from different disciplines –history, literature, religious studies and philosophy, for instance –and, in what accounts for a cutting edge of the book, provide truly multidisciplinary insights on the subject in one single volume. Their select case studies illuminate key aspects of contemporaneous socio-religious processes. They explicate how aspects of mysticism, esotericism and occultism were closely tied to wider socio-political and intellectual processes of the period that were at once transregional, even global, and frequently transcultural and/or cosmopolitan in character. Postgraduate students, research scholars and academics in general working in the fields of religious studies and/or Asian religions in modern times will find this collection to be of great interest.

Soumen Mukherjee (Dr. phil. 2010, University of Heidelberg) teaches History at Presidency University, Kolkata. His publications include the Karim and Rosemin Karim prize-winning book Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Toshio Akai is Professor of Humanities at Kobe Gakuin University with expertise in and publications on Theosophist activities in Ireland and India, and Irish impact on the interwar years Japanese culture. He is the co-author of The Cosmic Movement: Sources, Contexts, Impact (Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2020) and other books.

1. Introduction to the book;
2. Embody the Bulldog Spirit/Courage; 3. Can(d)id Communication; 4.
Azawakh Authenticity; 5. Komondor Kindness; 6. Great (Dane or not) Gratitude; 7.
Tosa Bone for Trust; 8. Rottie Respect; 9. Houndish Humility; 10.
Pointing at Joi de vivre; 11. Ridge(ing)back to Resilience; 12. Sett(er)ing
down to a Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2023
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Anthroposophie
ISBN-10	1-83999-042-2 / 1839990422
ISBN-13	978-1-83999-042-7 / 9781839990427
Zustand	Neuware