Other Religions
- Annie Besant—Theosophist influential in the Indian Independence Movement
- Madame Blavatsky—contributed to the development and promotion of theosophy
- Nakayama Miki—founder of Tenrikyo
- Nirmala Srivastava founder and self-proclaimed goddess of Sahaja Yoga
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“It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)