Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800-1945.
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| Superior document: | Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2024. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (339 pages) |
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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.