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The Ordinary Business of Occultism
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Theosophy's relationship with Indian spirituality was parasitic, and proprietorship of the occult was split unevenly between spiritual teacher and Anglo-Indian disciple.
“Theosophy's 'relationship with Indian spirituality was parasitic … proprietorship of the occult was split unevenly between spiritual teacher and Anglo-Indian disciple'”
From Nothing Personal: Blavatsky and Her Indian Interlocutors (2021) · cites this paper as Viswanathan 2000: 3
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The Global Occult: An Introduction
Green, N. (2015) · History of Religions · doi:10.1086/680176 · Cited by 15
Nothing Personal: Blavatsky and Her Indian Interlocutors
Chajes, J. (2021) · Numen · doi:10.1163/15685276-12341648 · Cited by 4
Metadata
- Authors
- Viswanathan, G.
- Corresponding author
- Viswanathan, Gauri
- Venue
- Critical Inquiry
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2000-10
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-20
- ISSN
- 0093-1896 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-7858
- OpenAlex
- W2031046616
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 4 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 9.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Critical Inquiry (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Historical Philosophy and Science
- Keywords
- occultism, magic, mysticism, esotericism
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