India and the occult
the influence of South Asian spirituality on modern western occultism
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Author
Publication
2014 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
48,500 words, Guess
Page Count
194 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781137404985
- ISBN-101137404981
- Library of Congress Control Number2013046954
- OCLC Control Number870285576
- Better World Books9781137404985
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL31181803M
Classifications
- DDC130.9182/1
- LCCBL1283.85 .D58 2014
- LCCBL60BL41BL1-2790B105
Description
"At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Yoga and Tantra become attractive to some major exponents of Western occultism. In a gesture typical of the syncretic tendency in Esotericism, Yoga is by these Westerners often identified as an Eastern form of magic: the two disciplines were considered to share similar theoretical perspective, the difference in their methods notwithstanding. India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality among Western occultists through several case studies. Unlike existing works focusing on the activities of Theosophical Society, it looks at the 'hard-core' occultism, in particular the British twentieth century currents associated with Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Grant, and related individuals and groups. Without denying the specificity of its Western historical manifestation, it suggests that esotericism is a category that may be applied as a conceptual tool in order to interpret aspects of non-Western religious thought and practice"--
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