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| Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of Theosophy: Spiritual Underpinnings of the Science of Deduction | ||
| 作者 | Chatterjee, Arup K. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture |
| 卷期 | v.35 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2023.08.01 |
| 頁次 | 96 - 113 |
| 出版者 | University of Toronto Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://utppublishing.com/ |
| 出版地 | Toronto, ON, Canada [多倫多, 安大略省, 加拿大] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India. |
| 關鍵詞 | Arthur Conan Doyle; Blavatsky; Darwin; decoloniality; Sherlock Holmes; Sinnett; theosophy; Tyndall |
| 摘要 | Sherlock Holmes is often oversimplified as a secular modern professional, with a remorselessly scientific outlook. This hypothesis overlooks late-nineteenth-century English society’s pursuit of new social possibilities for spiritualism, following challenges from Darwinist biological determinism to orthodox biblical mythology and morality. If we see Holmes in a default empirical scientism affiliated to imperial ideologies, we will remain blind to the effects of multiple countercultural and spiritual tones that also underpin the “science of deduction.” Holmes’ methods were subliminally informed by theosophy, as Doyle gleaned much of his spiritual knowledge from first- or second-hand readings on Blavatsky. Thus, Vedantic and Buddhist philosophy find inadvertent—but not coincidental—traces in Holmes through theosophy. An intellectual offspring of the trinity of Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall, Holmes was also a child of Blavatsky’s occult philosophy. Adopting a decolonial praxis, this paper argues that comparisons between the materialistic principles of Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall, on the one hand, and Holmes on the other, are as useful as comparing the detective’s work to Blavatsky’s theosophy. |
| 目次 | Abstract 96 Keywords 96 |
| ISSN | 1703289X (E) |
| DOI | 10.3138/jrpc.2021-0049 |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.12.19 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.12.19 |
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