E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 435 Seiten
Reihe: Okkulte ModerneISSN
Annie Besant’s Pedagogy and the Creation of Benares Hindu University
E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 435 Seiten
Reihe: Okkulte ModerneISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-079469-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Sanâtana Dharma
Text Books. In 1898, the English Theosophist Annie Besant and the Indian Theosophist Bhagavan Das together founded the Central Hindu College, Benares, which became the nucleus around which the Benares Hindu University was instituted in 1915. In this context the
Sanâtana Dharma
Text Books were published. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant’s pedagogy, which she implemented in the Central Hindu College in Benares. In doing so, he succeeds in making intelligible how “esoteric” knowledge was transferred to public institutions and how a broader public could be reached as a result.
The dissertation has been awarded the ESSWE PhD Thesis prize 2022 by the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.