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Author:   Isabella Schwaderer ,  Gerdien Jonker
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9783031403743

ISBN 10:   3031403746
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   09 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.

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Isabella Schwaderer teaches and researches at the University of Erfurt, Germany. Gerdien Jonker does pure research at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

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