Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800-1945
Religion as a form of cultural expression constitutes a critical element in the relationship between Germany and India. The discovery of Indian traditions in Germany and re-interpretations of those traditions in India fueled not only new theological and philosophical explorations, but also extensive...
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Series: | Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies,
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 'To Read in an Indian Way' (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian-German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800
- 3 In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833-1939)
- 4 The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as 'Religion' at the End of the Nineteenth Century
- 5 Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf's Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910)
- 6 The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf's Forgotten Opera Mahadeva
- 7 Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form
- 8 'The Priestess of Hindu Dance': Leila Sokhey's Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927-38)
- 9 Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period
- 10 Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief
- 11 Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India
- 12 Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research.