India and the occult: the influence of South Asian spirituality on modern western occultism

"At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Yoga and Tantra become attractive to some major exponents of Western occultism. In a gesture typical of the syncretic tendency in Esotericism, Yoga is by these Westerners often identified as an Eastern form of magic: the two disciplines were co...

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Main Author: Djurdjevic, Gordan (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan May 2014
In:Year: 2014
Reviews:Review: India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism by Gordan Djurdjevic (2016) (Asprem, Egil)
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:Palgrave studies in new religions and alternative spiritualities
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B India / Yoga / Tantrism / Shaktism / Western world / Occultism / Spirituality
Further subjects:B Tantrism
B Yoga
B Occultism
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