New Religions in a Postmodern World
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Esotericism. Albertina. Nugteren. Edward Said''s book Orientalism often functions as a starting point, or point of reference, in the discussion of the ''imagined'' Orient versus the Orient of real people and real Earth.1 Southern Asia (i.e., India before Independence, especially including Sri Lanka, Tibet, and Burma) certainly was the object of a vast share of images and imaginings,2 often functioning as a projection screen on which the West projected its wishful thinking or the reverse images ...