Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800–1945

Chapter 1 Introduction

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

Chapter 3 In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833–1939)

Chapter 4 The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as ‘Religion’ at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 5 Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf’s Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910)

Chapter 6 The Indian Parsifal : Revisiting Felix Gotthelf’s Forgotten Opera Mahadeva

Chapter 8 ‘The Priestess of Hindu Dance’: Leila Sokhey’s Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927–38)

Chapter 9 Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period

Chapter 10 Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief

Chapter 11 Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India

Chapter 12 Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research