Searching for the Spirit : Theosophy in Australia, 1879-1939.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roe, Jill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theosophy.

Religion.

Theosophists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Adelaide : Wakefield Press Pty, Limited, 2020.

Summary:

This book traces the history of theosophy from its rise in the 1870s through its heyday in the 1920s to its relative decline in the 1930s. Although always tangential as a quasi-religious spiritual movement, it had an effect disproportionate to its numbers and paved the way for more recent spiritual movements that bloomed in the 1960s.

Contents:

Cover

About the author

Annie Besant, c. 1897

Title page

Imprint

In memoriam

Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1 - The first fellows

2 - Minds maddened by Protestantism

3 - Legends of the nineties

4 - 'The Great Unsatisfied'

5 - To the court of the Faerie Queene

6 - Men, Mars and the millennium

7 - The height of expectancy

8 - To theosophise Australia

9 - The end of an era

Notes

Chapter 1 - The first fellows

Chapter 2 - Minds maddened by Protestantism

Chapter 3 - Legends of the nineties

Chapter 4 - 'The Great Unsatisfied'

Chapter 5 - To the court of the Faerie Queene

Chapter 6 - Men, Mars and the millennium

Chapter 7 - The height of expectancy

Chapter 8 - To theosophise Australia

Chapter 9 - The end of an era

Appendix

Table 1

Table 2

Index

A

B

C

D

E-F

G-H

I-L

M

N

O-P

Q-S

T

U-W

Y

Wakefield Press

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Other Format:

Print version: Roe, Jill Searching for the Spirit

ISBN:

9781743059494

OCLC:

1333082527