UID:
kobvindex_HPB1419057089
Format:
1 online resource (339 p.).
ISBN:
9783031403750
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3031403754
Series Statement:
Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Chapter 7: Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
Additional Edition:
Print version: Schwaderer, Isabella Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800-1945 Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 ISBN 9783031403743
Language:
English
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