Occult East Asia : Euro-American Perspectives /
This book examines key actors and themes in the Euro-American esoteric reception history of East Asia. It traces how Western occultists and esotericists have engaged with East Asia, appropriating textual icons such as the Daodejing and Yijing , or figures such as Fuxi, Laozi, and Confucius, into the...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
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Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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Call Number: BF1434.E18
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introducing Occult East Asia
- Lukas K. Pokorny and Franz Winter
- 1 Esotericism between Europe and East Asia: How the "Esoteric Distinction" Became a Structure in Cross-Cultural Interpretation
- Julian Strube
- 2 Introducing "the Heavenly Empire of China" ( le Céleste Empire de la Chine ) China versus India in the Quest for an Ancient Model Society in Joseph Alexandre Saint - Yves d ' Alveydre
- Franz Winter
- 3 The Ascended Confucius: Images of the Chinese Master in the Euro-American Esoteric Discourse
- Lukas K. Pokorny
- 4 An Alternative View on Chinese Cultural and Religious History: Esoteric Readings of the Mythical Figure of Fuxi
- Franz Winter
- 5 "The Way, the Truth, and the Light": Franz Hartmann's Daodejing
- Lukas K. Pokorny
- 6 Albert de Pouvourville's Occultisme Colonial
- Davide Marino
- 7 China in the Anthroposophical Imaginary
- Olav Hammer and Karen Swartz-Hammer
- 8 The Path to Gnosis: A Microhistory
- Davide Marino
- 9 "If the Kingdom be Ruled According to the Tao": Politics as "Eastern Wisdom" in Aleister Crowley's Reception of the Daodejing
- Johan Nilsson
- 10 The Tao of Julius Evola
- Davide Marino
- Index.