German Visions of India, 1871–1918 [electronic resource] : Commandeering the Holy Ganges during the Kaiserreich /
Myers, P.author.
The wide-ranging fascination with India in Wilhelmine Germany emerged during a time of extraordinary cultural and political tensions. This study shows how religious (denominational and spiritual) dilemmas, political agendas, and shifting social consensus became inextricably entangled in the wider German encounter with India during the Kaiserreich.
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Cover; German Visions of India, 1871-1918: Commandeering the Holy Ganges during the Kaiserreich; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theoretical Considerations and State of the Research; Plan of the Book; Summary; PART I: Protestant and Catholic Champions and Their Visions of India; CHAPTER 1: Restoring Spirituality: Buddhism and Building a Protestant Nation; The Discovery of the Buddha; Leopold von Schroeder's Quest for Spiritual Meaning and Buddhism; The Transforming Power of the Buddha: Christianity versus Sundara
Rudolf Seydel's Comparative Religion and Progressive HistoryResponse to Bishop Ketteler: Seydel's Anti-Catholicism; Comparative Religion and Christianity's Cultural Distinction; Shared Religious Practices in the Church and Nation; Indian Ur-Religion and Its German Keeper; Buddhist Escapism versus Christian Community Building: Protestant Germany's Superiority; CHAPTER 2: Catholic Visions of India and Universal Mandates: Commandeering the Nation-State; Repairing Protestant Damage: Archiving Catholic Success in India; Winning the Kulturkampf in India; Catholic Universal Mandates in India
Catholic Historical Hermeneutics: Portuguese Glory and Squandering God's MissionCatholic Missions after Portuguese Supremacy and the Ambivalence of the Raj; PART II: Breaking Out of the Iron Cage: Fringe Religious Innovators and Their Detractors; CHAPTER 3: Responding to Science and Materialism: Buddhism and Theosophy; Theodor Schultze: A Frustrated Sense of Duty (Pflichtbewußtsein); Reckoning with Christianity: Revising the Ranking Order of Progressive History; The Buddhist Ascetic: A Corrective to European Materialism; The Buddhist Ascetic: Worldly Engagement and Community Solidarity
Paul Dahlke: Biology and Faith Are the Same!Reconstituting the Self; Franz Hartmann's Theosophical India; The Coalescence of Love and Understanding: Theosophy's "Secret Doctrine" and Introspection Revisited; A Class of Elite Thinkers; CHAPTER 4: Buddhism's Catholic and Protestant Detractors; The Scourge of Buddhism: A Catholic Response to Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia; Catholicism's Light of the World; Comparative Religion and a Colonial Consciousness; Hermann Oldenberg's "Über Sanskritforschung" and the Beginning of History
An Emerging Philological Nation: The Vedas, German Language, and the Revered GreeksThe Greeks, Buddhism, and Christian Apologetics; Nation, Empire, and the Christian Community; Returning to the Fold: Leopold von Schroeder's Reassessment of Christ and His Colonial Consciousness; PART III: The Radicalization of Germany's India; CHAPTER 5: Ambivalent Visions of the British Raj: Spirituality and Germany's Colonial Champions; Evolution, Brahmins, and Colonialist Visions: Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden's Metaphysical Darwinism; Metaphysical Darwinism in India
Metaphysical Dynamism and a Mystic German Vitality
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The wide-ranging fascination with India in Wilhelmine Germany emerged during a time of extraordinary cultural and political tensions. This study shows how religious (denominational and spiritual) dilemmas, political agendas, and shifting social consensus became inextricably entangled in the wider German encounter with India during the Kaiserreich.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
Europe, Central-History.
Asia-History.
Philosophy (General).
Civilization-History.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
Asian History.
History of Philosophy.
Cultural History.