A professor of religion explores Theosophical ideas in modern times. Major concepts discussed include reincarnation, karma, evolution, the Oneness of all life, the cyclic nature of creation, and the mystery of consciousness.

If you still hold the notion that the fifties were the "good old days," blessed with incomparable social affluence and widespread family unity, all buttressed by a strong, unconflicted spiritually, then look again. In this compelling narrative of religion in a decade still embraced by an indefatigable nostalgia, Robert Ellwood interrogates the notion of the fifties as an era of normalcy, and proves it to be full of spiritual strife. A companion to...

The presence of Eastern religions in our increasingly pluralistic American religious scene is a given fact. This book offers background insight into the history and significance of this reality from the perspective of Eastern spiritual teachers who have come to the United States, and from that of Americans of occidental background who have been attracted to Eastern faiths, from the founding of the Theosophical Society in 1875 and the time of the famous...