Spiritual empires in Europe and India : cosmopolitan religious movements from 1875 to the interwar era / Perry Myers.
2021
BL98 .M94 2021
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Title
Spiritual empires in Europe and India : cosmopolitan religious movements from 1875 to the interwar era / Perry Myers.
Author
Myers, Perry, 1956- author.
ISBN
9783030810030 (electronic bk.)
3030810038 (electronic bk.)
9783030810023
303081002X
3030810038 (electronic bk.)
9783030810023
303081002X
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 333 pages) : illustrations
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10.1007/978-3-030-81003-0 doi
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BL98 .M94 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
200.9034
Summary
This book provides a comparative analysis of cosmopolitan (esoteric) religious movements, such as Theosophy, Groupe Independent des Etudes Esoteriques, Anthroposophy, and Monism, in England, France, Germany, and India during the late nineteenth-century to the interwar years. Despite their diversity, these factions manifested a set of common featuresanti-materialism, embrace of Darwinian evolution, and a belief in universal spiritualitythat coalesced in a transnational field of analogous cosmopolitan spiritual affinities. Yet, in each of their geopolitical locations these groups developed vastly different interpretations and applications of their common spiritual tenets. This book explores how such religious innovation intersected with the social (labor and economic renewal), cultural (education and religious innovation) and political (Empire and anti-colonial) dynamics in these vastly different national domains. Ultimately, it illustrates how an innovative religious discourse converged with the secular world and became applied to envision a new social orderto spiritually re-engineer the world. Perry Myers is Professor of German Studies at Albion College in Michigan, USA.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Cosmopolitan Spirituality: Rectifying Materialism
Chapter 3: The Progress Of Evolution And Spiritual Science
Chapter 4: Re-Articulating History And Universal Visions
Chapter 5: Spiritual Elites: Setting The Stage Of Social And Political Conviction
Chapter 6: Merit-Based Karma And Social Engineering In Germany And France
Chapter 7: Englands And Indias Spiritual Empire: Merit-Based Karma And Social Engineering
Chapter 8: Cosmopolitan Spirituality: National Merit In Germany And France
Chapter 9: A New And Improved Empire: British Spiritual Imperialism And Indian National Renewal
Chapter 10: Epilogue.
Chapter 2: Cosmopolitan Spirituality: Rectifying Materialism
Chapter 3: The Progress Of Evolution And Spiritual Science
Chapter 4: Re-Articulating History And Universal Visions
Chapter 5: Spiritual Elites: Setting The Stage Of Social And Political Conviction
Chapter 6: Merit-Based Karma And Social Engineering In Germany And France
Chapter 7: Englands And Indias Spiritual Empire: Merit-Based Karma And Social Engineering
Chapter 8: Cosmopolitan Spirituality: National Merit In Germany And France
Chapter 9: A New And Improved Empire: British Spiritual Imperialism And Indian National Renewal
Chapter 10: Epilogue.