{"product_id":"recycled-lives-a-history-of-reincarnation-in-blavatskys-theosophy-paperback","title":"Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky's Theosophy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulie Chajes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief over the last century and a half is directly traceable to the impact of the nineteenth century's largest and most influential Western esoteric movement, the Theosophical Society. In \u003cem\u003eRecycled Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, Julie Chajes looks at the rebirth doctrines of the matriarch of Theosophy, the controversial occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891). Examining her teachings in detail, Chajes places them in the context of multiple dimensions of nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural life. In particular, she explores Blavatsky's readings (and misreadings) of Spiritualist currents, scientific theories, Platonism, and Hindu and Buddhist thought. These in turn are set in relief against broader nineteenth-century American and European trends. The chapters come together to reveal the contours of a modern perspective on reincarnation that is inseparable from the nineteenth-century discourses within which it emerged, and which has shaped how people in the West tend to view reincarnation today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulie Chajes\u003c\/strong\u003e is a cultural historian who studies the ways in which religion, science, and scholarship intersected in nineteenth-century Britain and America. She is particularly interested in the literature of Spiritualism and occultism, and in what it reveals about the overlaps between heterodox religiosity and \"mainstream\" culture. Born in Brazil and raised in the UK, Dr. Chajes's research has addressed topics such as gender, Orientalism, emergent critical categories, and the appropriation of scientific and medical theories in modern forms of religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9.28 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42773557543008,"sku":"9780197846957","price":78.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/2Cm-vFc6vw9780197846957.webp?v=1779897048","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/recycled-lives-a-history-of-reincarnation-in-blavatskys-theosophy-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}