Julie Chajes is a cultural historian interested in the ways religion, science, and scholarship intersected in nineteenth-century Britain and America. She is particularly interested in the literature of Spiritualism and occultism and what it reveals about the overlaps between heterodox religiosity and "mainstream" culture. Born in Brazil and raised in the UK, Dr. Chajes teaches at Tel Aviv University. Her articles have dealt with such topics as gender, Orientalism, emergent critical categories and the appropriation of scientific and medical theories in modern forms of religion.

The prose is accessible and engaging, the scholarly apparatus very helpful, and the analysis well-organized, rendering Recycled Lives a solid piece of scholarship.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Blavatsky and ReincarnationChapter Two: Isis Unveiled and MetempsychosisChapter Three: Reincarnation in The Secret DoctrineChapter Four: SpiritualismChapter Five: PlatonismChapter Six: ScienceChapter Seven: Hindu and Buddhist ThoughtChapter Eight: Conclusions BibliographyPrimary SourcesSecondary Sources

Julie Chajes is a cultural historian interested in the ways religion, science, and scholarship intersected in nineteenth-century Britain and America. She is particularly interested in the literature of Spiritualism and occultism and what it reveals about the overlaps between heterodox religiosity and "mainstream" culture. Born in Brazil and raised in the UK, Dr. Chajes teaches at Tel Aviv University. Her articles have dealt with such topics as gender, Orientalism, emergent critical categories and the appropriation of scientific and medical theories in modern forms of religion.

The prose is accessible and engaging, the scholarly apparatus very helpful, and the analysis well-organized, rendering Recycled Lives a solid piece of scholarship.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Blavatsky and ReincarnationChapter Two: Isis Unveiled and MetempsychosisChapter Three: Reincarnation in The Secret DoctrineChapter Four: SpiritualismChapter Five: PlatonismChapter Six: ScienceChapter Seven: Hindu and Buddhist ThoughtChapter Eight: Conclusions BibliographyPrimary SourcesSecondary Sources

Julie Chajes is a cultural historian interested in the ways religion, science, and scholarship intersected in nineteenth-century Britain and America. She is particularly interested in the literature of Spiritualism and occultism and what it reveals about the overlaps between heterodox religiosity and "mainstream" culture. Born in Brazil and raised in the UK, Dr. Chajes teaches at Tel Aviv University. Her articles have dealt with such topics as gender, Orientalism, emergent critical categories and the appropriation of scientific and medical theories in modern forms of religion.

The prose is accessible and engaging, the scholarly apparatus very helpful, and the analysis well-organized, rendering Recycled Lives a solid piece of scholarship.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Blavatsky and ReincarnationChapter Two: Isis Unveiled and MetempsychosisChapter Three: Reincarnation in The Secret DoctrineChapter Four: SpiritualismChapter Five: PlatonismChapter Six: ScienceChapter Seven: Hindu and Buddhist ThoughtChapter Eight: Conclusions BibliographyPrimary SourcesSecondary Sources