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The West Turns Eastward: Madame Blavatsky and the Transformation of the Occult Tradition
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Mark Bevir; The West Turns Eastward: Madame Blavatsky and the Transformation of the Occult Tradition, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII,
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“With its theology of the impersonal Divine, Theosophy was particularly influential on the New Age, which inherited a propensity to see the divine in impersonal terms.”
From Nothing Personal: Blavatsky and Her Indian Interlocutors (2021) · cites this paper as Bevir 1994: 765
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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
- Bevir, M.
- Corresponding author
- Bevir, Mark
- ORCID
- Bevir, Mark
- Venue
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- LXII
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 747-768
- ISSN
- 0002-7189 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-4585
- OpenAlex
- W1999852506
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- 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 › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Keywords
- Madame Blavatsky, Theosophy, occultism, Western esotericism, Eastern religions, comparative religion, religious change
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