RT Book
T1 Accelerating human evolution by theosophical initiation: Annie Besant’s pedagogy and the creation of Benares Hindu University
T2 Okkulte Moderne
JF Okkulte Moderne
A1 Mühlematter, Yves
LA English
PP Berlin Boston
PB De Gruyter Oldenbourg
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1801420947
AB The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. These initiatory steps are connected to an idea of evolutionary self-development by means of a set of virtues that are relative to the individual's position on the path of evolution. The central thesis is that these stages were translated from the "Hindu" tradition to the "Theosophical" tradition through multifaceted "hybridization processes" in which several Indian members of the Theosophical Society partook. Starting with Annie Besant's early Theosophy, the stages of initiation are traced through Blavatsky's work to Manilal Dvivedi and T. Subba Row, both Indian members of the Theosophical Society, and then on to the Sanâtana Dharma Text Books. In 1898, the English Theosophist Annie Besant and the Indian Theosophist Bhagavan Das together founded the Central Hindu College, Benares, which became the nucleus around which the Benares Hindu University was instituted in 1915. In this context the Sanâtana Dharma Text Books were published. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant's pedagogy, which she implemented in the Central Hindu College in Benares. In doing so, he succeeds in making intelligible how "esoteric" knowledge was transferred to public institutions and how a broader public could be reached as a result.The dissertation has been awarded the ESSWE PhD Thesis prize 2022 by the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
SN 9783110794564
SN 311079456X
K1 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
K1 20th Century
K1 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000
K1 Asian History
K1 Asiatische Geschichte
K1 Geschichte
K1 Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
K1 HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
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K1 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
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K1 Hinduism
K1 Hinduismus
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K1 Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
K1 Naturwissenschaften, allgemein
K1 RELIGION / Hinduism / General
K1 RELIGION / Theosophy
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