Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800-1945.

• Superior document: Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies
• Author: Schwaderer, Isabella.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jonker, Gerdien.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2024.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Interfaces and Entanglements -- The Historical Constellation -- The Religious Field -- The Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: 'To Read in an Indian Way' (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian-German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800 -- In Search of the Entanglement: German Orientalism, a Specific Understanding of Wissenschaft, and Their Relationship to Colonialism -- Hebrew People as Role Models: Theology in a New Era of Ethnography -- The Old Testament as a Space for the German Colonial Imagination and Johann Gottfried Herder as an Intermediary -- To Read in an Indian Way: The Romanticized Orient -- Interlude: India as Method? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833-1939) -- India and German Vormärz Vegetarianism -- Indian Connections with German Theosophists -- German Buddhists on the Subcontinent -- Aryanism Without Hindus: Mazdaznan -- Völkisch Vegetarianism: Claims to Teutonic Superiority -- German Vegetarians and the Cult of the Ascetic Leader in Weimar Germany -- Contacts with the Indian Independence Movement in the Interwar Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as 'Religion' at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Challenge -- The Antagonism of Religion and Science and the Birth of a New Concept of Religion -- The Problem of Religious History -- India and the 'Religion of the Future' -- Oldenberg's Role in Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religions -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's Buddha (1881) -- Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg's The Religion of the Veda (1894).

Summary of Troeltsch's Reception of Oldenberg -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf's Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910) -- Faith and Modernity: A Difficult Relationship -- A Forgotten Indian Opera -- Mahadeva: The Plot -- Press Reaction -- Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Redemption Dramas -- Wagner's Share: Mahadeva-A Cosmic Drama About Love, Death, and Salvation -- 'Büßerin in der Hülle des Zauberweibs' (Penitent in the Cloak of the Sorceress): Obsession or Liberation? -- Schopenhauer's Share: Maya, the Will, and Pessimism -- Gotthelf and the Indian Renaissance -- The Role of Religion in National Identity: Some Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf's Forgotten Opera Mahadeva -- An Artist's Biography -- The Tail of Wagner's Comet -- The Indian Parsifal -- The Final Threshold -- Conclusion: The Possibility of Revision -- References -- Chapter 7: Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form -- Previous Research and Open Questions -- Indian Influences on Western Performing Arts -- Developments in India's Performing and Visual Arts -- Earlier and Later 'Revivals' of the South Asian Performing Arts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: 'The Priestess of Hindu Dance': Leila Sokhey's Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927-38) -- Indian Debut -- Preparing for the European Stage -- Constructing Continuity -- Artistic Individuality -- Where the Gods Are Nigh: Dutch Reception -- 'Noble Grace in the Highest Perfection': German Reviews -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period -- Sources and Steps Ahead -- 'A Sea of Ecstasy' -- The Convert Register -- Parallel Experiences.

The 1880 Generation -- Debating the Future of Religion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief -- Indology, Nazism, and Germanness -- Knowledge of the Other for One's Own Changing Society -- Example of History or Pre-Eminence of 'Life'? Religion, the Social Bond, and the Individual -- The Self-Realization of Life Through a Racist Evaluation of Religious Experience -- Herman Wirth and the 'Arctic Vedas': Constructing Primordial Aryan Experience and Sensational Forms -- The Artist-Philosopher-Prehistorian from Youth Movement to Ahnenerbe Foundation -- How to Draw Religious Knowledge from the Dawn of Mankind: India and Indology as Resources for Human Experience -- How to Pass on Religious Knowledge in Sensational Forms: Readings of the Rising Sun -- Conflicting Evaluations of the Origins at the Conference of the Coffee Magnate -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India -- Introduction -- The Nazi Network in India -- Cultural Politics as Nazi Propaganda: Deutsche Akademie's India Institute -- Nazism, Hindu Revivalism and Aryanism -- The Gaudiya Order: Krishna Worship and Nazi Propaganda -- Playing the Aryan Card: The Arya Samaj -- Hindu Mahasabha and Nazism -- Buddhist Anti-Colonialism, Aryanism and the Nazis -- Nazi Propaganda and Islamic Nationalism -- The "German Society" of the Aligarh Muslim University -- Decline of Religion Based Propaganda -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research -- Building the Archive -- Scholarly Approaches and Focus of Research -- Artistic Research -- Aryan Bodies on Stage.

Debate on the 'Revival' of Indian Classical Dance -- Some Conclusions -- References -- Glossary -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.