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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910508479703321
• Autore: Myers Perry <1956->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 3-030-81003-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Disciplina: 200.90511
• Soggetti: Religions - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Spiritual Empires in Europe and India -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Cosmopolitan Affinities and Universal Spirituality -- Spiritual and Political Entanglement in the Cosmopolitan Religious Field -- The "Sore Need" of the World and Its Remedy: Cosmopolitan Spirituality -- Shared Entanglements: The Intersection of Spiritual Affinities in Europe and India -- Who Were These Spiritual Innovators? -- A Note of Scholarly Indebtedness: A Brief Sketch of the Scholarship on Esoteric Religion -- Purpose and Aims of Spiritual Empires -- Part I: Spiritual Science: Evolution for the Soul and Spiritual Historiography -- Chapter 2: Cosmopolitan Spirituality: Rectifying Materialism -- Materialism's Dearth -- Legitimizing Spiritual Science -- The Intersection of Spirituality and Material Science -- The Stakes of Reconstructing Social Unity in the Face of Materialism -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The Progress of Evolution and Spiritual Science -- Spiritual Evolution: A Science of the Soul -- Ratifying Spiritual Science as Empirical Science -- Barlet: Linking Chemistry to the Divine -- Annie Besant's Occult Chemistry and the Ultimate Atom -- Wilhelm Ostwald's Source of Life: Die Energie -- Chapter 4: Rearticulating History and Universal Visions -- The Laws of Cosmopolitan Spiritual Historicism -- Universal Evolution of Religious Praxis -- The Rise and Fall of Civilizations -- Chapter 5: Spiritual Elites: Setting the Stage of Social and Political Conviction -- Reconstituting the Soul as Life-Force -- The Group Soul ; and Its Deva Builders -- Spiritual Reconstitution and the Practical Aspects of Social Revision -- The Outline of Cosmopolitan Political Designs -- Summing Up: Spiritual Elites and Their Political Mandate.; Part II: Spiritual Imperialism: Cosmopolitan Religious Partisans in Their Societies and Nations -- Chapter 6: Merit-Based Karma and Social Engineering in Germany and France -- The Articulation of Merit-Based Karma in Germany -- Merit-Based Karma and Social Distinction in Germany -- Educating the Volk: Caste, Class, and Karma in Germany -- The Remedies for Socioeconomic Disparities -- France: Social Revision for the Nation -- Chapter 7: The Spiritual Empire of England and India: Merit-Based Karma and Social Engineering -- The British Version of Merit-Based Karma -- Socialism and the Rise of the Proletariat: The Scourge of Society -- The Indian Theosophical Model of Caste -- The Embrace of International Labor in India -- Chapter 8: Cosmopolitan Spirituality: National Merit in Germany and France -- "There Is No European People so Similar to the Hindus as We Germans" -- Spiritual Francocentrism: Synarchy and French National Renewal -- Mission of the Sovereigns: Leading France to National Synarchy -- Barlet's Synarchy: Social Evolution and the Nation -- "Grand Chancellors": A French Catholic-esque Priesthood for the World -- Chapter 9: A New and Improved Empire: British Spiritual Imperialism and Indian National Renewal -- Yoking Science and Religion for a Better World in the Empire -- An Indo-British Commonwealth: "A World Federation of All Nations" -- Indian Tradition: "To Spiritualize and Purify Humanity" -- India's Spiritual Resurgence: "To Change the Whole Face of Indian Life" -- India's Aryan Heritage: Reforging National Identity -- India: "My Province, the Motherland, and the Empire" -- A British-Indian Spiritual Empire -- Chapter 10: Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Primary: Books -- Primary: Journals -- Secondary -- Index.