Imagining the East

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Imagining the East is written by Tim Rudbog and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190853905 (ISBN 10) and 9780190853907 (ISBN 13).

The essays in Imagining the East explore how Theosophists during the formative period imagined the religions and cultures of the East. The authors examine the relationship of such representations to orientalism, the history of ideas, politics, and culture at large and discuss how these esoteric or theosophical representations mirrored conditions and values current in nineteenth-century mainstream intellectual culture. The essays also look at how the early Theosophical Society's representations of the East differed from mainstream 'orientalism' and how the Theosophical Society's mission in India was distinct from that of British colonialism and Christian missionaries.