The occult nineteenth century : roots, developments, and impact on the modern world
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The occult nineteenth century : roots, developments, and impact on the modern world
（Palgrave studies in new religions and alternative spiritualities / series editors, James R. Lewis, Henrik Bogdan）
Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, c2021
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Description
The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later generations of thinkers and practitioners. Penned by specialists in the field, this volume examines important themes and figures pertaining to this occult amalgam and its resonance into the twentieth century and beyond. Global guises of the occult, ranging from the Americas and Europe to India, are variously addressed, with special attention to the crucial role of mesmerism and the origins of modern yoga.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1. Introductory Remarks
Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter
Part I: Mesmerism
2. Carl August von Eschenmayer and the Somnambulic Soul
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
3. Priest-doctors and Magnetisers: Mesmerism, Romantic Medicine, and Catholic Thought in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Maren Sziede
4. Animal Magnetism and Its Psychological Implications in Hungary
JuliaGyimesi
5. From Fluidum to Prana: Reading Mesmerism through Orientalist Lenses
Dominic S. Zoehrer
PartII: Occultism in America and Europe
6. Total Recall: The "Panoramic Life Review" near Death as Proof of the Soul's Timeless Self-Presence in Western Esotericism of the Nineteenth Century
Jens Schlieter
7. Stages in the Development of an Occult Linguistics
Olav Hammer
8. The Art of Esoteric Posthumousness
Marco Pasi
9. Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and Sexual Regeneration
John Patrick Deveney
10. The Theosophical Maitreya: On Benjamin Creme's Millenarianism
Lukas Pokorny
11. Martial Arts Spirituality in Sweden: The Occult Connection
Per Faxneld
Part III: Occultism in Global Perspective
12. A Study into a Transreligious Quest for the Ultimate Truth: Indian, Muslim, and European Interpretations of the Upanishads
Franz Winter
13. Occult's First Foot Soldier in Bengal: Peary Chand Mittra and the Early Theosophical Movement
Mriganka Mukhopadhyay
14. Re-Imagining an Ancient Greek Philosopher: The Pythagorean Musings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho)
Almut-Barbara Renger
15. African and Amerindian Spirits: A Note on the Influence of Nineteenth Century Spiritism and Spiritualism on Afro- and African-American Religions
Hans Gerald Hoedl
Part IV: Occultism and Modern Yoga
16. Sri Sabhapati Swami: The Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism
Keith EdwardCantu
17. Tracing Vivekananda's Prana and Akasa: The Yogavasistha and Rama Prasad's Occult Science of Breath
Magdalena Kraler
18. Guru and Messiah: On the First Yoga Handbook in Polish Language: Wincenty Lutoslawski'sThe Development of the Power of Will by Means of Psychophysical Exercises (1909)
MarlisLami
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