UNITY, THEOSOPHY, AND INTERRELIGIOSITY
From Chicago 1893 to Chicago 1933
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Beschreibung
This study provides a new approach and new research questions about one of the most important events in the history of interreligious dialogue: The World’s Parliament of Religions in 1893. It explores the individual religious congresses and sheds light on the role of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society in Chicago and at other congresses in the USA and Europe.
The book thus responds to a double research gap—on esoteric organizations for the conceptualization of interreligiosity and on interreligious congresses for the study of esotericism. In a discourse-analytical reading, various archive materials, congress proceedings, journal articles and programs are examined, in some cases for the first time. Prominent figures such as Vivekānanda, Dharmapāla, Hirai Kinzō, Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi, Alexander Russell Webb, Friedrich Max Müller, Hikkaduve Sumangala and Gyanendra Nath Chakravarti are portrayed in their connections to the Theosophical Society. By focusing on figures, congresses and events in concrete power constellations, the study offers insights into the multivalent negotiations on religion in imperialist times. For example, a Second Parliament of Religions planned by Dharmapāla in Benares never took place.
Overall, this analysis demonstrates how transcultural, translocal and transimperial entanglements, such as collaborations with theosophical societies, reshaped the study of religion.
Autor*in
Diana Lunkwitz
Themen in »UNITY, THEOSOPHY, AND INTERRELIGIOSITY«
Religionswissenschaft, interkulturelle Theologie, unity, theosophy interreligiosity, World’s Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 concept of religion, irreligion, esotericism, Theosophist, India ecumenical, unite, Theosophical Congress, Theosophy, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, Annie Besant, world, exhibition interreligious, transtextuality, translocal, space, spatiality, civilizing mission race, nation, John Henry Barrows Charles Carroll Bonney, Swedenborgianism, individual religious congresses Jewish Congresses, Columbian Catholic Congress Disciples of Christ, Universalist Church, New Jerusalem Church Evangelical Association, Congresses of Missions, Evangelical Alliance, Vivekānanda, Dharmapāla Hirai Kinzō, Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi Alexander Russell Webb, Esoteric Islam, Friedrich Max Müller Gyanendra Nath Chakravarti, Spiritists, Spiritualists, Psychical Congress National Delegate Convention of Spiritualists, Buddhism, Hinduism