Theosophical Anthropology, or the Septenary Constitution of Man Reconsidered

Abstract

Dr. phil. Ulrich Harlass is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Bremen in Northern Germany. After graduating in Religious Studies, South Asian Studies and ìChristianity and Cultureî, he completed his dissertation on ìDie orientalische Wende der Theosophischen Gesellschaftî [The Oriental Shift of the Theosophical Society] at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests comprise the approaches of postcolonial studies and global history to the ìlongî nineteenth century and its repercussions to the present. Particular research interests lie in esotericism, the Orientalist interpretations of Buddhism and the discourses on ìEast and Westî.