Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction • Tim Rudbøg and Erik Reenberg Sand
PART 1. APPROACHES TO THE EAST
	1. Adventures in “Wisdom-Land”: Orientalist Discourse in Early Theosophy • Christopher Partridge
	2. Orientalist vs. Theosophist • Donald S. Lopez Jr.
PART 2. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE EAST
	3. H. P. Blavatsky’s Acquaintance with the Language of the Gods • James A. Santucci
	4. Early Debates in the Reception of Buddhism: Theosophy and Esoteric Buddhism • Tim Rudbøg
	5. H. P. Blavatsky’s Early Reception of Hindu Philosophy • Tim Rudbøg and Erik Reenberg Sand
	6. The Mahatma Letters • Joscelyn Godwin
	7. “The Real Pure Yog”: Yoga in the Early Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor • Patrick D. Bowen
	8. Emergent Representations of the East: The Role of Theosophical Periodicals, 1879– 1900 • Gillian McCann
	9. Theosophy and Modernism: A Shared but Secret History • David Weir
PART 3. INTERACTIONS WITH THE EAST
	10. Theosophy in the Bengal Renaissance • K. Paul Johnson
	11. The Marriage between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj • Erik Reenberg Sand
	12. The West Moves East: Blavatsky’s “Universal Brotherhood” in India • Tim Rudbøg
	13. Allan Octavian Hume, Madame Blavatsky, and the Foundation of the Indian National Congress • Isaac Lubelsky
	14. Theosophy, Cultural Nationalism, and Home Rule • Mark Bevir
	15. Experiments with Theosophical Truth: Gandhi, Esotericism, and Global Religious History • Michael Bergunder
Afterword • Tim Rudbøg and Erik Reenberg Sand
Index