Spiritual Empires in Europe and India: Cosmopolitan Religious Movements from 1875 to the Interwar Era

Acknowledgments
Praise for Spiritual Empires in Europe and India
Contents
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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
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