| Title |
Religinė ir politinė Teosofų draugijos veikla Indijoje XIX a. pab. - XX a. pr / |
| Translation of Title |
Religious and political activity of theosophical society in India at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. |
| Authors |
Beinorius, Audrius |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Soter : religijos mokslo žurnalas /Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas.. Kaunas : Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto leidykla. 2012, t. 41, p. 71-88.. ISSN 1392-7450 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Theosophy ; H.P. Blavatsky ; Occultism ; Neohinduism ; Buddhism ; Hindu nationalism ; Colonialism ; Religious reformism ; Counter-culture ; Orientalism |
| Abstract [eng] |
The article deals with political ideology of the Theosophical Society founded by H elena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott in 1875, and its contribution to Indian nationalism and Hindu and Buddhist religious revivalism at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The article aims to reveal how modern theosophy in India became an integral part of a wider movement of neo-Hinduism fighting against Christian missionaries and British colonialism, which helped to provide Indian nationalists with legitimating ideology, new-found confidence, experience of organization, contacts and network, all of which they used for political purposes. Since theosophy both eulogized the ancient faith of India and also interpreted it integrating modern scientific doctrines, such as evolution, it had an obvious appeal to western-educated Indians by helping them to solve an intense problem of cultural dislocation – tension between the religious tradition in which they had been raised and the apparent scientific and ethical rationalism of the West. |
| Published |
Kaunas : Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2012 |
