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Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945

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Editors:
  1. Isabella Schwaderer

    1. Religious Studies, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

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  2. Gerdien Jonker

    1. Historian of Religion at Erlangen Center for Islam and Law in Europe, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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  • Addresses India through the lens of an entangled relationship
  • Takes into view the period that stretches from the start of the Kaiserreich to National Socialism
  • Places special emphasis on the artistic expressions of religious experience
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies (PSAGR)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Gerdien Jonker, Isabella Schwaderer
    Pages 1-12Open Access
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  3. ‘To Read in an Indian Way’ (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian–German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800

    • Simon Wiesgickl
    Pages 13-32Open Access
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  4. In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833–1939)

    • Julia Hauser
    Pages 33-57Open Access
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  5. The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as ‘Religion’ at the End of the Nineteenth Century

    • Mathias Thurner
    Pages 59-87Open Access
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  6. Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf’s Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910)

    • Isabella Schwaderer
    Pages 89-114Open Access
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  7. The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf’s Forgotten Opera Mahadeva

    • Markus Schlaffke
    Pages 115-136Open Access
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  8. Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form

    • Sandra Jasmin Schlage
    Pages 137-162Open Access
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  9. ‘The Priestess of Hindu Dance’: Leila Sokhey’s Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927–38)

    • Parveen Kanhai
    Pages 163-192Open Access
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  10. Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period

    • Gerdien Jonker
    Pages 193-220Open Access
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  11. Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief

    • Tilman Hannemann
    Pages 221-252Open Access
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  12. Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India

    • Baijayanti Roy
    Pages 253-282Open Access
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  13. Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research

    • Markus Schlaffke, Isabella Schwaderer, Parveen Kanhai
    Pages 283-299Open Access
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  14. Back Matter

    Pages 301-325
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About this book

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 innovations in the fields of music, dance, bodily experience, and political intervention. Seeking to uncover the enfolding of colonial thought structures through presentations of the Self, while placing them in the context of global colonial value chains that connected the peripheries with the centre, this interdisciplinary volume addresses India through the lens of an entangled relationship. Adopting the position that the acceleration of communication, technical development, and colonisation locally triggered re-interpretations of the religious sphere, This volume takes a look at the period from 1800 to the end of National Socialism, tracing the strands of an Indo-Germanic religion inthe making as it goes along. A special emphasis is placed on the artistic expressions of religious experience including re-enactments of musical compositions and dance configurations, which were created to embody India in Germany.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Religious Studies, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

    Isabella Schwaderer

  • Historian of Religion at Erlangen Center for Islam and Law in Europe, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Gerdien Jonker

About the editors

Isabella Schwaderer teaches and researches at the University of Erfurt, Germany.

Gerdien Jonker does pure research at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945

  • Editors: Isabella Schwaderer, Gerdien Jonker

  • Series Title: Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40375-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40374-3Published: 09 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40377-4Due: 09 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40375-0Published: 08 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2731-5657

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-5665

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 325

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Germany and Central Europe, Asian History, Comparative Religion, Cultural History

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