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Spiritual empires in Europe and India : cosmopolitan religious movements from 1875 to the interwar era / Perry Myers.

9783030810030 (electronic bk.)
3030810038 (electronic bk.)
9783030810023
303081002X

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (xix, 333 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-81003-0 doi

BL98 .M94 2021

200.9034

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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