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UNITY, THEOSOPHY, AND INTERRELIGIOSITY

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UNITY, THEOSOPHY, AND INTERRELIGIOSITY (Volume 1) (English shop)

From Chicago 1893 to Chicago 1933

Diana Lunkwitz (Editor)
Jayabalan Murthy (Editor)

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ISBN-13 (Hard Copy) 9783689520076
Language English
Page Number 222
Lamination of Cover matt
Edition 1
Book Series Studien in Religionswissenschaft und Interkultureller Theologie/Studies in Religion and Intercultural Theology
Volume 1
Publication Place Göttingen
Publication Date 2024-04-30
General Categorization Non-Fiction
Departments Humanities
Religionswissenschaft
Keywords 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, Hikkaduve Sumangala, Maha Bodhi Society, Premier Congrès International d’Histoire des Religions, Benares, World’s Columbian Exposition, Comparative Religion, British Empire Exhibition, Francis Younghusband, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, World Fellowship of Faiths, Einheit, Theosophie, Interreligiosität, Weltparlament der Religionen
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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.