Isabella Schwaderer teaches and researches at the University of Erfurt, Germany.Gerdien Jonker does pure research at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 ‘To Read in an Indian Way’ (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian–German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800.- 3 In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833–1939).- 4 The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as ‘Religion’ at the End of the Nineteenth Century.- 5 Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf’s Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910).- 6 The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf’s Forgotten Opera Mahadeva.- 7 Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form.- 8 ‘The Priestess of Hindu Dance’: Leila Sokhey’s Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927–38).- 9 Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period.- 10 Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief.- 11 Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India.- 12 Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research.

Isabella Schwaderer teaches and researches at the University of Erfurt, Germany.Gerdien Jonker does pure research at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 ‘To Read in an Indian Way’ (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian–German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800.- 3 In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833–1939).- 4 The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as ‘Religion’ at the End of the Nineteenth Century.- 5 Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf’s Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910).- 6 The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf’s Forgotten Opera Mahadeva.- 7 Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form.- 8 ‘The Priestess of Hindu Dance’: Leila Sokhey’s Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927–38).- 9 Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period.- 10 Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief.- 11 Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India.- 12 Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research.

Isabella Schwaderer teaches and researches at the University of Erfurt, Germany.Gerdien Jonker does pure research at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 ‘To Read in an Indian Way’ (Johann Gottfried Herder): Pre-Emergent Colonial Epistemologies in Indian–German Entanglements, Showcased in Protestant Theology c.1800.- 3 In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833–1939).- 4 The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as ‘Religion’ at the End of the Nineteenth Century.- 5 Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf’s Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910).- 6 The Indian Parsifal: Revisiting Felix Gotthelf’s Forgotten Opera Mahadeva.- 7 Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form.- 8 ‘The Priestess of Hindu Dance’: Leila Sokhey’s Repertoire and Its Reception in the Netherlands and Germany (1927–38).- 9 Roaming Between East and West: In Search of Religious Ecstasy in the Interwar Period.- 10 Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief.- 11 Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India.- 12 Curating the Fragments of Local Modernities: The Menaka Digital Archive from the Perspective of Ongoing Research.