Appropriating the Dao (eBook, ePUB)

The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China
Redaktion: Pokorny, Lukas K.; Winter, Franz

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Assembling original contributions, this book is a pioneering attempt to address the Euro-American esoteric reception and appropriation of China.

Positioned between eighteenth-century's mesmerism and intersections with the modern martial arts current, the contributions specifically centre on nineteenth and early twentieth-century occult appraisals and representations. This book opens up an under-explored area of research in
the field of East-West interactions and the global history of religions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350289581
• Artikelnr.: 69995030

Autorenporträt

Lukas K. Pokorny is Professor and Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Franz Winter is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors China in the Euro-American Esoteric Imagination: Contouring a Lacuna
Lukas K. Pokorny (University of Vienna
Austria) and Franz Winter (University of Graz
Austria) 1. Daoism and Kung Fu as Occult Sciences: Historical Comparisons between Chinese Practices and Mesmerism
Julian Strube (University of Vienna
Austria) 2. Looking Out for Magic in Ancient China: The Yijing
Its Trigrams
and the Figurist Tradition in Éliphas Lévi
Franz Winter (University of Graz
Austria) 3. The Theosophical Daodejing: The Beginnings
Lukas K. Pokorny (University of Vienna
Austria) 4. The Daoist Who Wasn't: Albert de Pouvourville
Matgioi
Nguyen Van Cang
and the Problem of Indochinese Masters in fin de siècle Occultism
Davide Marino (University of Vienna
Austria) 5. Turning Further East: C. H. A. Bjerregaard and the Esoteric Enthusiasm for Daoism
Johan Nilsson (Lund University
Sweden) 6. Do What Dao Wilt: The Integration of East Asian Concepts and Practices into Aleister Crowley's Thelema
Gordan Djurdjevic (Independent Scholar
Canada) 7. An Exoticism of Rationality and Social Order? Examining the East-West Binary in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Esoteric Representations of China
Johan Nilsson (Lund University
Sweden) 8. The Archetypal Dao: A Look at C. G. Jung's Reception of Chinese Thought
Karl Baier (University of Vienna
Austria) 9. Be Water My Friend: Esotericism
Martial Arts
and Entangled Histories
Tao Thykier Makeeff (University of Stavanger
Norway) Index