Religious entanglements between Germans and Indians, 1800-1945
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: In...
| Summary: | 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. 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 in the 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. Isabella Schwaderer teaches and researches at the University of Erfurt, Germany. Gerdien Jonker does pure research at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Religion als kulturelle Ausdrucksform ist ein entscheidendes Element in den Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Indien. Die Entdeckung indischer Traditionen in Deutschland und ihre Neuinterpretation in Indien förderten nicht nur neue theologische und philosophische Forschungen, sondern auch umfassende Innovationen in den Bereichen Musik, Tanz, Körpererfahrung und politische Intervention. Dieser interdisziplinäre Band untersucht Indien aus der Perspektive einer verflochtenen Beziehung und versucht, die Verflechtung kolonialer Denkstrukturen in Selbstdarstellungen aufzudecken und sie in den Kontext globaler kolonialer Wertschöpfungsketten zu stellen, die die Peripherien mit dem Zentrum verbanden. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass die Beschleunigung der Kommunikation, die technische Entwicklung und die Kolonisierung vor Ort Neuinterpretationen des Religiösen auslösten, untersucht dieser Band die Zeit von 1800 bis zum Ende des Nationalsozialismus und verfolgt die Entwicklung einer indogermanischen Religion. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf den künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen religiöser Erfahrung, darunter Nachinszenierungen musikalischer Kompositionen und Tanzinszenierungen, die Indien in Deutschland verkörpern sollten. [Mit KI übersetzt] |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 325 Seiten), Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-3-031-40375-0 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40375-0 URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024010903104929766300 |
