{"product_id":"9781839990427","title":"Esotericism, Mysticism, and the Politics of Transcendence in Modern Asia by Soumen Mukherjee","description":"This invaluable anthology examines histories of esotericism, mysticism and occultism in modern Asia, understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century, and paving eventually the way for the so-called `New Age'. The idea of `histories', in plural, has to do with the complexities of their lineages, the many pathways through which their affinities, encounters and entanglements flowed and\/or developed during the period under review. The contributors hail from different disciplines - history, literature and religious studies, for instance and, in what accounts for a cutting edge of the book, provide truly multidisciplinary insights on the subject in one single volume. Their select case studies illuminate key aspects of contemporaneous socio-religious processes. They explicate how aspects of mysticism, esotericism and occultism were closely tied to wider socio-political and intellectual processes of the period that were at once transregional, even global, and frequently transcultural and\/or cosmopolitan in character. Postgraduate students, research scholars and academics in general working in the fields of religious studies and\/or Asian religions in modern times will find this collection to be of great interest.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313032900981,"sku":"9781839990427","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839990427.jpg?v=1762825061","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781839990427","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}