German Visions of India, 1871–1918: Commandeering the Holy Ganges during the Kaiserreich

267 Pages·2013·3.782 MB·English

by  Perry Myers (auth.)

German Visions of India, 1871– 1918
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German Visions of India, 1871– 1918
Commandeering the Holy Ganges
during the Kaiserreich
Perry Myers
german visions of india, – 
© Perry Myers, 2013
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DOI 10.1057/9781137316929
Myers, Perry. “Leopold von Schroeder’s Imagined India: Buddhist Spirituality and
Christian Politics during the Wilhelmine Era.” German Studies Review 33.2 (2009):
619– 36. © 2003– 2012 German Studies Association, all rights reserved. Reprinted
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
I Protestant and Catholic Champions and Their Visions of India
1 Restoring Spirituality: Buddhism and Building a
Protestant Nation 25
2 Catholic Visions of India and Universal Mandates:
Commandeering the Nation- State 53
II Breaking Out of the Iron Cage: Fringe Religious Innovators
and Their Detractors
3 Responding to Science and Materialism: Buddhism
and Theosophy 81
4 Buddhism’s Catholic and Protestant Detractors 113
III The Radicalization of Germany’s India
5 Ambivalent Visions of the British Raj: Spirituality
and Germany’s Colonial Champions 149
6 Prescriptive History and the Radicalization of
Community Building 169
Epilogue 199
Notes 201
Bibliography 239
Index 251
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Illustrations
Figure 1.1 Leopold von Schroeder 29
Figure 2.1 Catholic Vicarages in India (1838) 68
Figure 3.1 Theodor Schultze 88
Figure 5.1 Hübbe- Schleiden’s “Pyramid of Power Potentialities” 155
Figure 5.2 Hübbe- Schleiden’s “Evolution in the Animal World” 157