Theosophical Appropriations
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Wednesday, December 18th Participants Monday, February 27 2012 NINTH SESSION01:11-01:01 Karl Baier, University of Vienna, Austria Research Workshop of Julie Chajes, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Theosophy, Spiritualism and Kabbalah in North Yossi Chajes, University of Haifa, Israel The Israel Science Foundation and 9:45-12:30 America John Patrick Deveney, USA The Goldstein-Goren International Chair: Marco Pasi Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka OPENING SESSION Shulamit Dvir, Kfar Raphael Remedial Community, Israel Center for Jewish Thought Greetings Ohad Rosenberg Zvi Dvir, Kfar Raphael Remedial Community, Israel The World Parliament of Religions: The Invention of a 'Metaphysical East' and the Spirit Cathy Gutierrez, Sweet Briar College, USA Daniel J. Lasker, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev of Theosophy Victoria Ferentinou, University of Ioannina, Greece "The Future of Karaite Studies" Chaim Hames, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Massimo Introvigne Olav Hammer, University of Southern Denmark, Odense Miriam Goldstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lawren Harris and the Theosophical Boaz Huss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Appropriation of the National Tradition in "A Literature of its Time and Place: New Directions in Moshe Idel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Canada Massimo Introvigne, Salesian University,Torino, Italy In cooperation with: Examination of Judeo-Arabic Karaite Works" Cathy Gutierrez Andreas Kilcher, Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Giving up the Ghost: Spiritualism, Theosophy, Adam Klim-Oron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and 14:00-16:00 SECOND SESSION: and the Kabbalistic Body Eugene Kuzmin, Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem, Israel RESOURCES Shimon Lev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel INASWE – The Israeli Network for the Academic TENTH SESSION 13:30-15:00 Isaac Lubelsky, Tel-Aviv University and Open University, Israel Study of Western Esotericism Ilana Sasson, Zohar Maor, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Kabbalah and the Invention of Traditions in "Karaite Resources and Collections in the Library of the Jonatan Meir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Later Developments of the Theosophical Society Jewish Theological Seminary" Abraham Oron, The Israeli Theosophical Society, Israel Chair: Cathy Gutierrez Marco Pasi, University of Amsterdam, Holland Barry Dov Walfish, Adam Klin-Oron Tomer Persico, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Theosophical "Creating the Karaite Bibliography" Transforming the Wild Vision: Bailey, Schucman, Ohad Rosenberg, Tel-Aviv University, Israel and Roberts and the Invention of New Yossef Schwartz, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Appropriations 16:30-18:30 THIRD SESSION: Traditions Yuri Stoyanov, SOAS, University of London, England Kabbalah, Western Esotericism Olav Hammer Shini'chi Yoshinaga, Maizuru National College, Japan Helmunt Zander, University of Fribourg, Switzerland and the Transformation of Traditions GRAMMAR I Elizabeth Clare Prophet and Kabbalah as a Universal Wisdom Tradition Maria Angeles Gallego, Consejo Superior de 13-15 Tevet 5774 Investigación Cientifica, Madrid ELEVENTH SESSION 15:30-17:45 16-18.12.2013 "Language Use and Language Attitudes among Kabbalah and Theosophy in Eastern European Karaites" Contexts Aharon Maman, The Hebrew University of Chair: Yossi Chajes Rotem Conference Room Jerusalem Eugene Kuzmin Zlotowski Student Administration Building Maksimilian Voloshin (1877-1932) and Kabbalah "Abu Faraj Harun between Mushtamil and al-Kafi: The Marcus Family Campus Beer-Sheva The Chapter on the Infinitive" Yuri Stoyanov Neo-Kabbalistic and Re-Orientalizing Appropriations of Blavatskyan Theosophy in East European, Russian and Eurasian Contexts For more information: Moshe Idel http://hsf.bgu.ac.il/cjt/Theosophia.htm Theosophy and Kabbalah in Romania 1900-1947 [email protected] - +972-8-6472532 Round Table/Conclusion th SIXTH SESSION 11:30-13.00 Monday, December 16 Kabbalah and Philosphia Perennis in Anthroposophy RECEPTION AND GREETINGS 9:30-10:30 THIRD SESSION 16:30-18:00 Chair: Yossef Schwartz Greetings: Theosophy and Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Japan Andreas Kilcher David Newman, Dean, Faculty of Humanities Kabbalah and Anthroposophy: A Spiritual and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of Greetings: Rivka Carmi, President, Ben- Alliance According to Ernst Müller the Negev Gurion University of the Negev Helmut Zander Uri Ehrlich, Chair, Department of Jewish Chair: Karl Baier Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Transformations of Anthroposophy from the Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri Death of Rudolf Steiner to the Present Day: Julie Chajes and Boaz Huss ‘Olcott Buddhism vs. True Buddhism’: A Adaptations of a Philosophia Perennis Introduction to Project and Workshop Review of the New Wave of Revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka S S SS - Theosophy and Judaism: Connections and FIRST SESSION 10:45-13:00 Shin’ichi Yoshinaga Interpretations Theosophy in Meiji Japan, its Meanings and Monotheism, Orientalism, and Practical Transformations Chair: Jonatan Meir Occultism in the Early Theosophical Society Shimon Lev Chair: Harvey (Chaim) Hames The Theosophical Connection: Gandhi and his FOURTH SESSION 18.15-19:00 John Patrick Deveney Jewish supporters The Theosophical Society in Israel To Do or Merely to Read and Know? The Zohar Maor Theosophical Society as Lesemysterium and Chair: Boaz Huss Modern Esotericism and the Break of Tradition Purveyor of Practical Occult Development Avraham Oron, Chairman of the Israeli in the Prague Circle Theosophical Society Julie Chajes Boaz Huss Madame Blavatsky and Monotheism "The Secret Doctrine of the Jews": Jewish Isaac Lubelsky Theosophists and their Appropriation of Theosophy and Orientalism: The Case of H.P. Tuesday, December 17th Kabbalah Blavatsky and F. Max Müller FITH SESSION 03:8-::388 Anthroposophy in Israel: Past and Present S SS - SECOND SESSION 14:30-16:00 Theosophical Appropriation and Identity The Session will be held in Kfar Rephael, Construction in Greece and Italy Theosophical Interpretations of Hindu Remedial Community Traditions and Krishnamurti's "No Tradition" Chair: Julie Chajes Chair: Massimo Introvigne Chair: Olav Hammer Boaz Huss Victoria Ferentinou The Early History of Anthroposophy in Israel Light from Within or Light from Above? Tomer Persico Theosophical Appropriations in Early A Pathless Land: Krishnamurti and the Shulamit and Zvi Dvir Twentieth-Century Greek Culture Tradition of ‘No Tradition’ Anthroposophy in Israel Today Marco Pasi Karl Baier Visit of Kfar Rephael Village The Theosophical Movement and the The Integration of the Chakras into Theosophy Construction of Esoteric Ethnic Identities in Italy (1890-1915) .