Index
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá (d.1921)
28, 124â148
America, travels in
4, 8, 10â11, 49n123, 141n97, 140â142
Baháʾà Faith and
6â8
Baháʾà message, perception of
130
Britain, journey to
125, 128
Britain, visit (1911)
43, 49, 123, 132â139
Britain, visit (1912)
4â5, 55, 67â70, 74â75
Browne and
8n28, 44â45
Campbell and
67, 74, 81n12, 123, 131
Campbell invited to Haifa
140n90
Campbell, meetings
132, 133â134, 140
Carpenter and
42, 54, 67â68
centenary of travels
10â11, 16
Cheyneâs perception of
70, 71, 73, 77
Christian missionary reaction to
143â146
City Temple visit
74, 75, 134â136
Eastonâs criticism of
145, 146, 148
Egypt, guests received in
125
European travels
4, 8
Haifa, residence in
125, 125n5, 168
imprisonment in Akka
7â8, 67, 93â94, 124
influence
95
irenic outlook
49
London (1911)
132â136
MacDonald, Ramsay and
45â46
missionary travels
8â11
Muhammad, perception of
72
Muslim background
72, 72n78, 77
New York, reception in
140â141
newspaper coverage
128â129
Oxford address
68â69
Oxford, visit to (1912)
55, 67â70, 74â75
peace, appeal for
73
Peace Prophet/Persian Prophet of Peace
16, 42, 49, 162, 162n62
perception of
8â9, 54, 136
personality
127, 138
polyreligious world, depiction of
130â131, 134
press coverage
5, 16n64, 17
public itinerary in Britain
5, 74â75
San Francisco, talk given in
131n41
Tudor Pole and
93â95, 96, 125, 127â128, 168â169
Vanners social project, visit to
74
Westminster visit
137â139
Woking Mosque and
75, 148
Abdul Hamid II, Sultan
124, 124n4
Aberdeen Journal
63n34
A.E. (George Russell) (d.1935)
89, 91
afterlife
Assmannâs concept
154â155, 155n33
Benjaminâs concept
22, 23, 153, 166
Campbell and
164, 168
of religious figures
162, 169, 170
of war
161â162
Warburg and
22, 23n95, 152
Wilberforce and
163
agnosticism
48
Akka
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs imprisonment in
7â8, 67, 93â94, 124
Baháʾà group, imprisonment
124n1
Baháʾuʾlláh, imprisonment
6â7, 124n1
Allenby, General Edmund H.H.
165
ancient civilizations, study of
34
Anglican Church/Anglicans
67, 74, 101
âAbduâl-Bahá at New York church, criticism of
141â143
Irish society and
89, 89n54
Wilberforce and
142â143, 147
Church of England
Arnold, Sir Edwin, Light of Asia, The
98, 98n92
Arnold, Matthew
29, 43n82
Arthur, King
88
Arthurian lore
2n4, 82n16, 86n35, 88
Asprem, Egil
15n63, 117n104
Assmann, Aleida
23n95, 23n99, 152n19
concept of afterlife
154â155
cultural memory
154â155
Assmann, Jan
23, 151, 153â154
Avalon
88, 165
Avalon Magazine, The
85n34, 92n69
Báb, the (Siyyid Ali Muhammad) (d.1850)
6, 66
awareness of in Britain
43
Browneâs interest in
44, 50, 76, 96
Carpenterâs perception of
50
execution
6, 49â50
Jesus Christ, parallel drawn with
49â50, 51
Orientalist scholars and
49â50
western scholars and
66â67
Bábà religion
53, 133
Bábà scripture
50
Babism
44, 52, 68
Baháʾà Faith
4, 4n17, 6, 9, 26, 43, 54
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá and
6â8, 53
adherents in Persia
127n18
as a great world-religion
66
the Báb and
6
Baháʾuʾlláh, founder of
6â7
Browneâs assessment of teachings
100
Campbell and
113, 135â136
Carpenter and
46, 68, 69
Cheyne and
68, 70
community in Britain
9
emergence in Persia
6
English translations of Baháʾà texts
98
Islam and
6, 7, 71â72, 76, 132, 142
Jesus and
132
âMohammedanâ, perceived as
69, 141, 142, 147
Muslim converts
145
New Theology and
129, 136, 146
origin stories, Christianity and
54
origins, histories of
6n23
perception of
54, 69, 100, 129â130, 135â136, 141, 142, 147
prophets and
132â133
publication of texts
98, 99n100
Rosenbergâs description of
66
Shiʾi milieu, emergence from
6, 96
spiritual/administrative centre in Haifa
7
tenets of
7, 71, 130, 131
Tudor Pole and
95â96, 100, 146
worldwide spread of
7
Baháʾà News (later Star of the West)
98â99
BaháʾÃs
Christian missionaries and
144â145, 147
membership criteria
129â130, 130n32
Persian constitutional crisis and
45, 45n97, 46
Tudor Pole and
95, 95n80, 168
worldwide number of (2010)
7n27
Bahaism
52, 66
missionariesâ perception of
144â145, 147
Baháʾuʾlláh (Mirza Husayn Ali) (d.1892)
6, 44, 66, 99
Baháʾà Faith founded by
6â7
Browneâs meeting with
96
Cheyneâs perception of
70, 73
imprisonment
6â7
religious message
7
Subh-i-Azal (half-brother)
45n97
tenets of his faith
7
BBC, Silent Minute campaign
126n13, 165
Benham, Patrick
92
Avalonians, The
1n1, 88n48
Benjamin, Walter (d.1940)
22, 23, 150â153, 166
afterlife, concept of
152â153, 153n22, 166
Arcades Project, The
152n18
history, concept of
152â153, 157
now time (Jetztzeit)
22, 151, 152
On the Concept of History
151
Berger, Peter L.
138
Besant, Annie
12n49, 98, 111, 112, 113â115
articles by
112n85, 115
Campbell and
113n91, 113â115, 117
City Temple exposition
113â115
Theosophy
115
Bidwell, Pauline
110n63
Blavatsky, Madame Helena P.
3, 52, 161
Blomfield, Lady Sarah Louisa (d. 1939)
68n58, 81n11, 97â98
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá and
68, 125, 126â127
biography
11
Carpenter and
98, 98n94
friendships
98
Theosophy and
98
Vivekananda, interest in
98
Wilberforce (spiritual mentor) and
98, 139
Bonakdarian, Mansour
19, 20, 44n91, 45n96
Bourdieu, Pierre
25, 25n104â106, 26n109, 118n110
Bowman, Marion
81n13, 93
Bradlaugh, Charles
52
Brahmanism/Brahmanists
35, 37, 56â57
Max Müllerâs advice to
74n92
Brahmo Samaj
38, 112
Brent Plate, S.
151n7
bricolage
93n71, 99
Bride
86n35, 92, 92n67
Bridget (Celtic Goddess)
86n35
Bridget, St.
86n35
British Empire
missionary expansion
64
racism/racialism
64, 64n40
British imperialism
19â20, 103
British society, pre-war
160, 168
Browne, Edward Granville
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá and
8n28, 44â45
Báb, and
44, 50, 54, 67, 76, 96, 97
Bábà movement
96, 97n89
Baháʾà Faith and
16, 43n82, 54, 96â97
Baháʾà teachings, assessment of
100
Baháʾuʾlláh and
6n25, 44, 45n94, 96, 97
Carpenter, correspondence with
97n88
Orient Library board
98
Persia Committee and
43â44, 53
Persian literature, interest in
44
Persian Revolution of 1905 to 1909, The
45, 45n98
Persian-British politics and
16, 43â44
Sufism, interest in
44
Tudor Pole and
96â97, 100
Writings
97n87
Buckton, Alice (d.1944)
Baháʾà Faith, perception of
129n31
Baháʾà movement
83n26
Celticism and
81n13, 92n67
âComing of Bride, Theâ
92n67
Deanâs Yard gathering and
5, 81, 92
Glastonbury and
92
visit to Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá in Haifa
125
Wilberforce and
139
Buddhism
24, 37, 41, 56â57, 111
Gautama
105n30, 119
influence in Victorian discourse
3n14, 105n30
Buddhist modernism
3, 62n32
Campbell, Colin, cultic milieu
24â25, 117
Campbell, Rev. R.J. (d.1956)
5, 12, 21, 117â118
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá and
67, 74, 81n12, 123, 126, 131, 136, 146
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá, meetings
132, 133â134, 140
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs invitation to Haifa
140n90
afterlife
164, 168
assessments of
102n10, 109, 120n117, 120â122
autobiography, Spiritual Pilgrimage, A
109, 122n125, 167, 168
Baháʾà Faith
113, 116, 116n103, 126
Besant and
113n91, 113â114, 117
biography
12n49, 102n10, 103n18â19, 104n21
Britain/British people, perception of
103
celebrity status
103
Christianity and
106, 106n40, 118â119, 122
Church of England, received as minister
108, 109â110, 122, 164
Congregationalism, defection from
108, 109, 164
controversy and
102, 103â104, 105, 122
criticism of
105, 107, 120
Deanâs Yard gathering and
5, 12, 81, 100
Education Act (1902), views on
102
esotericism
116
Fabian Society and
106, 113n91
First World War and
108, 108n56, 163â164, 167â168
Gautama, views on
105n30, 119
ill health
107, 108, 109, 140, 140n87, 164
Independent Labour Party and
106, 113n91, 116
Interests
110, 116n102, 116â117, 122â123
Jesus and
104, 105n30, 111, 118â119, 122, 135â136
Max Müllerâs writings, views on
122n125
New Reformation and
102, 109
New Theology, The
40n68, 103â104, 108, 110, 118
newspaper coverage
101, 102, 103, 115n99, 115â116
perception of
106â107, 157
personal papers, destruction of
110, 167
personality
101â102, 103, 120
Progressive League and
107
Protestant Christianity, reformation of
100, 102
reincarnation, views on
115â116
religion, the oneness of
134
retirement
81n12
R.J. Campbell Birthday Book
101
socialism and
106, 106n40
Spiritual Pilgrimage, A (autobiography)
102n10
theodicy
118, 119, 120â121
Theosophy
113, 115â116
tour of America
107
universal peace
110n64
Wilberforceâs support for
103n18, 105
worldview, liberal Protestant
136
City Temple, London; New Theology
Carpenter, Joseph Estlin (d.1927)
16, 18, 39â42, 53
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá and
42, 54
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs visit to Oxford
67â68
ante-Nicene Christianity
68
Báb, perception of
50, 54
Baháʾà Faith, views on
46, 68, 69
Christianity, views on
40â41, 42, 64
collection of papers
16
Comparative Religion
41n75
correspondence with Browne
97n88
history of religions, course on
40
interfaith dialogue
41â42, 52
Islam, perception of
64
Monier-Williams, criticism of
56â57
Orient Library board
98
religions, perception of
57
Sharpeâs perception of
52
social service, commitment to
42
synoptic Gospels, Bábà scripture and
50
theodicy
52
Third International Congress for the History of Religions and
61â62, 63, 64, 67, 76, 77
Unitarian Christianity and
40, 42, 57
Worldâs Parliament of Religions and
18, 56â57, 61, 76
Catholicism
in Ireland, Anglicans and
89
in North West Ireland
118, 118n110
Celtic mythology
2n4, 82n16
Glastonbury and
86n35, 87
Celtic Revival
89â94, 99
Celtic origins and
90
cultural decolonization and
89
mystic East and
89, 90, 91, 99
Tudor Pole and
91
Celticism/Celticists
2, 13, 26, 81n13, 83n24
Chalice Well Trust and
16
Tudor Pole and
87, 89, 92, 99
Chalice Well
16, 93n70, 165â166
Chesterton, G.K. (d.1936)
112â113
Cheyne, Thomas Kelly
63, 64, 67
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá and
63, 63n35, 70, 71, 73, 77
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs visit to Oxford
67, 68
academic background
63, 76
affirmative Orientalist position
73
Baháʾà Faith and
68, 70
Baháʾuʾlláh, perception of
70, 73
Biblical scholarship
63, 76, 77
Christianity
70, 71, 73â74, 77
cosmology
70â75
First World War, views on
75
Higher Criticism of the Bible
68
Islam, perception of
64, 72, 77
Jerahmeelite Theory
70n69
liberal Protestant reform
77
Muhammad, views on
73
Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
63, 67, 147
Reconciliation of Races and Religions, The
72, 73
religious reformers and
73, 74
self-identification as a BaháʾÃ
68, 69, 74
Sufi thought, depiction of
72â73
Third International Congress for the History of Religions
76, 77
universalist outlook
73
Chisti Sufi order
3
Christian Commonwealth, The
17n66â67, 110â114
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá, at Westminster
137â139
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá, interviews
132â133
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs itinerary
70
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs messages
128
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs visit to City Temple
135n67
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs visit to Oxford
68n63, 68â69, 68n64
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs visits
17, 67, 128, 131
articles by Annie Besant
112, 112n85
Baháʾà Faith
111, 112
Baháʾà teachings
127
Buddhism
112
Campbell
101, 109, 110â111
Campbellâs sermons
101, 110n64
Chesterton interview
112â113
Cheyneâs editorial
70
New Theology
106, 110, 110n66, 112, 119
obituary for Sister Nivedita
112
Theosophy
112, 115
world religion
111â112
Wrightâs articles
111
Christian nations, First World War and
161
Christian renewal, Glastonbury and
87, 88
Christian Science
111
Christian Scriptures
37
Christian World, The
106
Christianity
35, 51
Campbell and
106, 106n40, 118â119, 122
Carpenterâs views on
40â41, 42, 64
challenge facing
105
Cheyneâs views
70, 71, 72, 73â74, 77
evangelical missionary expansion
64
Islam and
63, 64, 65, 71â72
Max Müllerâs views on future form
37, 38, 57, 119
non-Christian religions, relationship with
33
socialism and
106, 106n40
Christians
13
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá welcomed by
15
Chunder Sen, Keshub (d.1884)
4n19, 74
Church of England
Campbell and
105, 108, 109â110, 122, 164
Christian Commonwealth, The and
106
Maurice (theologian)
51, 64
Max Müller and
36
Viscount Halifax and
82
Wilberforce and
137, 147
Anglican Church/Anglicans
Church Times, The
17, 105n31
Baháʾà Faith, perception of
141, 142, 147
Wilberforceâs obituary
143
Churchman, The
141
City Temple, London
40n68, 101â103
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá, Campbellâs invitation
134, 135, 146
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs visit and address
74, 75, 134â136
Baháʾà Faith, address on
126
Besantâs exposition
113â115
Campbell and
74, 81n12, 101â103, 108, 113
Campbellâs departure
108, 109
guest speakers
113n88
Lloyd Georgeâs speech
108n55, 164
R.J. Campbell Birthday Book
101
Rosary from the City Temple
101
Sunday services, attendances at
101
Clark, Christopher, Sleepwalkers, The: How Europe Went to War in 1914
159n49, 159n50
Clarke, James Freeman
40
Clarke, J.J.
21n88
Clements, K.W., Lovers of Discord: Twentieth Century Theological Controversies in Britain
12, 107n50
comparative religion
33â36
Max Müller and
34â36
Sharpe and
33â34
Congregationalism
39â40, 52
Campbellâs defection from
164
City Temple, London
Connerton, Paul
150n4
Cousins, James (d.1956)
89, 90
concept of race
90, 90n59
Crookes, Sir William (d.1919)
81, 85n32, 94, 98
cult of Omar see Khayyam, Omar
cultic milieu model
24â25, 117
Cutting, Tracy
81n13, 83n26
Daily Express
1, 82
Daily Mail
103, 128â129
Daily News
43, 101
Darwin, Charles
34
Origin of the Species
46
Datta, Narendranath
2
Vivekananda, Swami
David, Jacqueline, Campbellâs biography
12n49, 102n10, 103n18â19, 104n21, 105n29, 110n63
Davie, Grace
149n4
Dawson, Albert (d.1930)
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá, interview
132â133, 136
editor Christian Commonwealth, The
106, 128
Deanâs Yard, Westminster
artefact examined at
1â2, 13
attendees
5, 12â13, 13n53, 81â82, 83â84, 84n27, 92, 94
gathering at
1â2, 5, 12â13, 16, 81â84, 92, 95, 140
Glastonbury Cup
82, 140
Despard, Charlotte (d.1939)
116, 126, 126n14, 167n80
Devenish Island, Lough Erne
165
Dharmapala, Angarika (d.1933)
3, 98
Buddhist modernism and
3
London vihara established
3
Mahdi Bodhi Society
98n92
perception of
3, 157
Worldâs Parliament of Religions
18, 58
dialogue of religions, foundations of
37, 41
Dreyfus, Hippolyte
129n31
Duggan, Colin
90n54, 91n61
Eastern religions
Christianity and
80
English Christians and
70, 71, 77
Easton, Rev. Peter Z. (d.1915)
143â144, 147
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá, criticism of
145, 146, 148
Tudor Poleâs response to criticism
146
Wilberforce, criticism of
143â144
writings
144n104â105
Ebel, Jonathan H., Faith in the Fight; Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War
160n55
Education Act (1902)
102
Egea, Amin
5n21, 49n123, 128n22
Eliot, George
30, 79n6
English Christians, Eastern religions and
70, 71, 77
English Churchman
143, 143n103
Episcopalian Church of the Ascension, New York
140â141, 140n93
esotericism
14n54, 15n63, 18n70, 26, 28, 116
Eurocentrism
11
Evangelical Christendom
143
evangelicalism/evangelical zeal
30, 52, 64, 89, 143, 146, 147
Fabian socialism
90
Fabian Society
106, 113n91
Fairbairn, Andrew (d.1912)
39, 40, 40n69, 52n134
faith, crisis of faith
12, 29â33, 36, 51, 52
Fenge, Gerry
1n1â2, 84n27, 95
First Races Congress
126, 127
First World War
9, 13, 73, 74, 149, 158â162
afterlife
161â162
American soldiers in
160n55
Campbell and
108, 108n56, 163â164, 167â168
Carpenterâs views on
162n63
Cheyneâs views on
75, 162n63
Christian imagery and
161
Christian nations and
161
conscientious objectors
166, 167, 167n79â80
conscription
167n79
forgetting and
149â150, 158
literature
158n49
Lloyd Georgeâs speech at City Temple
108n55, 164
memory of
158, 158n49, 160â161
as a âmoral substituteâ
160
outbreak, reactions to
159n50, 159â160
religion and
160â162
religious leaders and
166, 167
support for
75, 159, 159n50, 166â167
Tudor Pole and
90n58, 164â165
Wilberforceâs perception of
163, 167
worldviews, influence on
158
Fitzgerald, Edward (d.1883)
16, 46â49
Rubayiat of Omar Khayyam
46â49
forgetting
16, 21â24
as a concept
149n4
First World War, outbreak of
149â150, 158
Foster, R.F.
89n54
Foucault, Michael
35
Fox, Richard G.
20, 21
âEast of Saidâ
20n82
Franklin, J. Jeffrey
Buddhist thought, influence of
3n14
Lotus and the Lion, The: Buddhism and the British Empire
3n14
Freemanâs Journal
16n64
Fussell, Paul, Great War and Modern Memory, The
158n49
Gardiner, A.G. (d.1946)
102
Gautama
105n30, 119
GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz
64
History of Islam in America, The
11n42, 64n41
Gladstone, William Ewart (d.1896)
80
Glastonbury
13
alleged âholy relicâ found
1â2
Celtic mythology and
86n35, 87
Chalice Well
165â166
Christian renewal and
87, 88, 92
pilgrimages
85, 87, 88, 92, 165
St. Brideâs well
85, 86
Tudor Pole and
99
Glastonbury Cup
5, 12, 100
examination of
85n32
Goodchild and
85â86
oratory, Tudor Pole and
86
provenance
85, 87
St. Brideâs well and
85, 86
in secret location
166n75
Tudor Pole and
25, 78, 82, 84â89, 91, 99, 165
Wilberforce and
82â83, 140, 140n91
Deanâs Yard, Westminster
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
34
Goodchild, J.A.
85â86, 87, 88
Gore, Charles, Bishop (d.1932)
103n18, 108, 120
Goroncy, Jason
115n96
Grail see Holy Grail
Grant, Rev. Percy Stickney (d.1927)
140â141
Grey, Edward (d.1933)
44n91
Guinness, Selina
89n54
Halifax, Charles Lindley Wood, second Viscount (d.1934)
82, 82n15
Hanegraaff, Wouter J.
14, 14n54â55, 15n63
esotericism
28
golden rule of academic labour
28
mnemohistory concept, views on
155
New Age religion
26
von Stuckradâs views on
156n41
Hardie, James Keir (d.1915)
106, 116
Harris Manchester College, Oxford
16, 50n125
Carpenter papers
62n30â32
Haweis, H.R.
81n10
Hearst, George F.
124n2
Hearst, Phoebe (d.1919)
124n2
Heathorn, Stephen
149n1, 159n49
Heine, Christian Johann Heinrich
71, 71n76
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
85, 88, 89, 91
Hermeticism
87, 87n41, 92, 94
Hervieu-Leger, Daniele
21, 149
Religion as a Chain of Memory
21n89
Hewaviratne, David
3
Dharmapala, Angarika
Higher Thought Centre, London
125
Hindu monotheists
38
Hinduism
35, 38, 65n48
history
Benjaminâs concept
152â153, 157
interpretation of
157
memory and
152
mnemohistory, concept of
23, 153â156
Holmes, G.W.
145n108
Holy Grail
1â2, 82
legends
2n4, 82n16
Glastonbury Cup
Hourani, Albert
19
Islam in European Thought
169n86
Huxley, T.E.
48n119
Inden, Ronald
20
Imagining India
20n82
Independent Labour Party
106, 111, 116
interfaith dialogue
52â53
Carpenter and
41â42, 51â52
International Council for Unitarian and Other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers
41n75
Iona
87, 88, 88n48, 92
Iran see Persia
Iranian Constitutional revolution (1906â1911)
19
Islam
35, 41, 44, 56â57
Baháʾà Faith and
6, 7, 71â72, 76, 142
Cheyneâs perception of
64, 72, 77
Christianity and
63, 64, 65, 71â72
hadith
48n118
Jesus as prophet
144
Margoliouthâs assessment of
63â64
negative attitudes to
67, 147
New Theology and
132n48, 134
perception of
51, 54, 63, 64â65, 72, 76
Sufism as safe approach to
76
Muslims
Islamic world, safe approaches to
65â66, 67
Jenkins, Philip, Great and Holy War, The: How World War I changed Religion for Ever
159n49, 160â161
Jerahmeelite Theory
70n69
Jesus
42, 73, 119
Báb, parallel drawn with
49â50, 51
Campbell and
104, 105n30, 111, 118â119, 122, 135â136
Glastonbury Cup and
1
Grail legends
2n4, 82n16, 86
Islamâs perception of
132, 144
Tudor Poleâs perception of
100n103, 169
Jewish Scriptures
37
Joseph of Arimathea
86n35
Josephson-Storm, Jason á¾¹.
26n110, 38n63
Jowett, Benjamin
68, 68n61
Judaism
35, 72
Kennington, Richard
32
Ketelaar, James E.
60, 60n24
Khan, Hazrat Inayat (d.1927)
3â4, 73, 74
magazine produced by
4, 4n16
perception of
157
publishing house established
4
Sufi Order of the West founded
4
Sufism and
3
travels in the West
3â4
visits to Britain
3, 4
Khan, Mirza Ali Kuli (d.1966)
49n123
Khayyam, Omar
16
agnosticism and
48
cult of Omar
46â49, 53â54
Fitzgeraldâs translation of
46â47
popularity, reasons for
47â48
Sufi references
48
themes
48
Kincheloe, Joe
93n71
King, Richard
20
Orientalism and Religion
20n84
Kittigawa, Joseph
59n21
Knott, Kim, âNew Religious Movementsâ
8n30
âKurâanâ
72, 73
Lang, Andrew (d.1912)
25n107, 79â80
Larsen, Timothy
30, 52
League of Progressive Thought and Social Service
107
Leerssen, Joep
83n24
Lennon, Joseph
89
Leonardo da Pistoia
87n41
Lincoln, Yvonna S.
93n71
Liverpool University, School for Social Science and Training for Social Work
42
Lloyd George, David
108n55, 164, 164n65
Long, Lynne
52
Lourdes, Catholic pilgrimage site
87
Lynch, H.F.B. (d.1913)
43
McLeod, Fiona see Sharpe, William
McMahan, David
3, 29
Mahdi Bodhi Society
98n92
Manchester College, Oxford
16, 42
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs visit
67â70
Manchester Courier
63n34
Manchester Guardian
43
Margoliouth, D.S. (d.1940)
63â64
Marshall, D.V.
42
Work of Joseph Estlin Carpenter
41n74
Masuzawa, Tomoku
36, 58n12, 151n7
Maurice, F.D. (d.1872)
51, 51n129, 64â65
Max Müller, Friedrich (d.1900)
16, 18, 42
ante-Nicene Christianity
57
Brahmanists, advice to
74n92
âChristian-Vedantaâ, prospect of
38
Christianity, future forms of
37, 38, 57, 119
Church of England and
36
comparative religion
34â36, 39
âComparative Theologyâ
35
dialogue about religions
52
dialogue of religions
18, 37, 41, 52
Hindu religious revival and
38
historical forms of religion
35
history of religions, study of
36
Introduction to the Science of Religion
35, 40
personal lifeâs quest
38
Protestant perspective
37â38
re-evaluation of contribution
53n137
Sacred Books of the East
36â37, 122n125
science of religion
34, 36, 37, 52
theodicy
52
âTheoretical Theologyâ
35
Worldâs Parliament of Religions and
18, 56, 57, 61, 76
writings, Campbellâs views on
122n125
Meakin, Neville (d.1912)
88â89
memory
149â153
afterlife, Assmannâs concept
154â155
afterlife (Nachleben), of cultural artefacts
22, 152
cultural memory
154â155
First World War
158, 158n49, 160â161
history and
152
mnemohistory, Assmannâs concept
23, 153â154, 155
now time (Jetztzeit), Benjaminâs concept
22, 151, 152
religion as a chain of memory
21â22, 149
as a social phenomenon
149
Mercier, Vivien
89n54
Metteyya, Ananda (Charles Allen Bennett) (d.1923)
111
missionaries
Armenian Christians and
144
BaháʾÃs and
144, 147
Bahaism, perception of
144â145
Catholic
144
Muslims and
144, 145, 147
Nestorian Christians and
144
Protestant
143â146
mnemohistory
Assmannâs concept of
23, 153â154, 155
Hanegraaffâs views on
155
von Stuckradâs views on
155â156
Momen, Moojan
127n18, 144n106â107
Bábà and Baháʾà Religions, The
124n1, 124n3, 125n5
Monier-Williams, Monier (d.1899)
57n6, 56â57
Boden Professor of Sanskrit
57n6
Carpenterâs criticism of
56â57
Moore, James A.
31
public intellectual (term)
79n6
theodicy
30â31
Victorian crisis of faith
51
Mottahdeh, Negar
10, 11
Mozoomdar, Protap Chunder (d.1905)
38
Muhammad
37, 44, 72, 131
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá and
72
perception of
63, 64, 65, 73
Mulk, Tammaddunâul
126n15
Muslims
73, 74
apostasy, fear of
144
Christian missionaries and
144, 145
perception of
64, 76
Islam
National Review, The
102
Nationalities and Subject Races Conferences (1907, 1910)
20
Nature
63n34
New Age movement
26, 157, 165
New Reformation
Campbell and
102, 109
Celticist movement, Tudor Pole and
99
New Theology as
12
Victorians and
33, 52
New Theology
103â107, 118â121
Baháʾà teaching and
129, 136, 146
Campbell and
12, 40, 81n12, 103â107, 115, 118â119, 164, 168
Islam and
132n48, 134
other religions, approach to
119â120, 122, 168
Wilberforce and
147
New York Times
115â116
Nicholson, R.A. (d.1945)
63
Nivedita, Sister (Margaret Noble) (d.1911)
112, 112n84
Non-Conformist theological colleges
39
Occident
19, 60, 76, 141
Occidentalism
60
occult/occultism
26, 91
Olcott, Henry Steel
3
Order of the Table Round
88
Orient, represented as âOtherâ 19â20
Orient Library
Baháʾà texts published by
98
Wisdom of the East series
98
Orientalism
18â21, 54
affirmative
20, 21, 44, 45, 54, 60, 61
as an academic discipline
19
as âOccidentalâ mode of thought
19
romantic view of
20, 50, 141
Osborn, Lil
9, 10, 27, 80n7, 83n26, 91
Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs second visit to Britain
139â140
Baháʾà Faith, Campbell and
116n103
Campbell, assessments of
102n10, 109, 120n117
esotericism
92n69
Religion and Relevance
96n84, 106n40
Ottoman Empire
4, 124
Ottoman penal colony see Akka
paganism
26
Pankhurst, Christabel
166â167, 167n80
Pankhurst, Emmeline
166â167, 167n80
Pankhurst, Sylvia
167n80
Peake, A.S.
50n127
Pennell, Catriona, Kingdom United, A
159n50
Persia
16
the Báb, execution of
6
Baháʾà adherents in
127n18
Baháʾà Faith, emergence from Shiʾi milieu
6
Baháʾuʾlláh, imprisonment of
6â7
British foreign policy and
43, 44
constitutional crisis
43, 44, 46, 50
perception of
42, 43, 54
politics of
16
Protestant Christian missionaries in
144â145
revolution
43, 44
Persia Committee
43, 45, 53, 54
pilgrimages
Chalice Well centre
165, 166
Glastonbury
85, 87, 88, 92
Lourdes
87
polyreligious paradigm
130â131, 134
âprimitiveâ peoples, study of
34
Progressive League
107
Protestantism
liberal Protestantism
77, 80, 100, 143, 146, 148
Protestant discourse
12â13
evangelicalism/evangelical zeal
public intellectual (term)
79n6
Quakers
167n79
race
Cousinsâ concept of
90, 90n59
Theosophical views on
90, 90n59
racism/racialism
64, 64n40
Ramakrishna Mission
3
Redman, Earl, Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá in Their Midst
11
reincarnation
115â116
religion
American soldiers, religious worldview
160n55
as a chain of memory
149
as collective memory
150n4
crisis of faith
12, 29â30
science and
29, 34
Victorian/post-Victorian conceptions of
80
war and
158â162
comparative religion
religious pluralism
58â59, 60
Reville, Jean (d.1908)
59n21, 60n21, 62
Rhys Davids, T.H.
24
Ridgeon, Lloyd
44, 44n92
Robbins, Keith
13, 108, 120n117, 121
Campbellâs autobiography, views on
168
History, Religion and Identity in Modern Britain
12n44, 101n7, 102n10, 164n65â66
Rosenberg, Ethel
66, 67, 68, 77
âBahaism: its Ethical and Social Teachingsâ
62, 66
Rosicrucian Freemasons
88
Royal Institute of London
35
Royce, Alan
85n34, 92n69
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad (poet)
57, 57n7, 63
Russell, George (A.E.) (d.1935)
89, 91
Russell, George William Erskine
80, 83
Sacred Scriptures
37, 72
sacred sites
92, 99
Said, Edward
60, 100
Orientalism
19
Saiedi, Nader
11
St Johnâs Church, Westminster, Ê¿Abduâl-Baháâs visit
74, 75, 134n57, 137â139
Sakaranaho, Tuula
149n4
San Francisco Examiner
49, 49n123
Santucci, James A.
90n60
Scharbrodt, Oliver
6n24
School for Social Science and Training for Social Work
42
science, religion and
29, 34
science of religion
33â36, 53
scientific naturalism
30, 32
Seager, Richard Hughes
58â59, 100
Second International
159n50
Second World War, Silent Minute campaign
126n13, 165
secularisation
31, 32, 48, 150n4
seekership
25n104
Sen, Keshub Chunder (d.1884), Brahmo Samaj and
38
Seraglio Palace, Constantinople
87
Sharpe, Eric J.
33â34, 35
Carpenter, perception of
52
Comparative Religion: A History
33n27, 40n69
comparative religion, Non-Conformists and
39
dialogue of religions
37
Fairbairnâs contribution
52n134
Worldâs Parliament of Religions, views on
58n12
Sharpe, William (d.1905) (novelist)
88, 91
Shaw, George Bernard (d.1950)
106, 113n88
Shinto
65n48
Shoghi Effendi
6n23, 6n25, 9n31, 130n32
Silent Minute campaign
126n13, 165
Simidchieva, Marta
48
Sinnett, Alfred P. (d.1921)
98
Smith, Walter Sylvester
108, 109
London Heretics, The
12, 106n35
socialism, Christianity and
106, 106n40
Sohrab, Ahmad, diary
17, 17n65, 140n87â89
Spiritualism
26, 52
Star of the West (Baháʾà magazine)
17, 98, 126n13
Stella Matutina Temple
88
Stephen, Leslie
30
Stephens, James (d.1950)
89
Stockman, Robert
27, 130â131
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá in America
10
Stromberg, Roland N.
159â160
Redemption by War
158n49, 159n50
Subh-i-Azal
45n97
suffrage/suffragism
26, 80, 110, 116, 139
suffragists, First World War and
166â167, 167n79â80
Sufi Order of the West
4
Sufism
3, 44, 63, 65, 67
Cheyne and
72â73
Khayyam, Omar and
48
perception of
65, 76
as safe approach to Islam
76
Sutcliffe, S.J.
25, 25n104
Suzuki, D.T. (d.1966)
Buddhist modernism
62n32
âDoctrine of the Bodhisattva, Theâ
62
Swedenborgianism
111
Tahirih (Bábà poetess)
126n14
Tamm, Marek
23n99, 154n32
Taylor, A.J.P., First World War, The: An Illustrated History
167n79
Taylor, Lawrence J.
118, 118n110
theodicy
31â33
Carpenter and
52
Kennington and
32
Max Müller and
52
Moore and
31â33
variants of
32â33
Theosophical Society
52, 111, 116, 117
Theosophists
2, 80, 91
Theosophy
12, 26, 80, 89
Campbell and
113, 115â116
Christian Commonwealth, The and
112, 115
European imperial traditions and
90, 90n60
founders of
3
Irish Protestants and
89, 89n54, 91
Jenkinsâ portrayal of
161
leading figures in
98
summer school
126
Tudor Pole and
84, 92, 94
Third International Congress for the History of Religions (1908)
54â55, 58n12, 63â67
affirmative orientalism
61
Bahaism
62, 63, 65â66, 76, 77
Buddhism
65n48
Carpenter and
61â62, 63, 64, 67, 76, 77
Cheyne and
63, 77
Christianity
65n48
denominational type presentations
62
âDoctrine of the Bodhisattva, Theâ (Suzuki)
62
Egyptian religion
65n48
filter and grid
61, 67
Greek religions
65n48
Hinduism
65n48
Islam, perception of
76, 145
opened by Tylor
62â63
programme
65, 65n48, 66
âReligion of the Semitesâ
63, 65
reports on
63n34
Roman religions
65n48
Rosenberg and
62, 65â66, 76, 77
Shinto
65n48
Sufism
63, 65, 76
transactions of
62n32â33, 65n48
Tiele, C.P.
57n9
Times, The
43, 107â108
Todman, Daniel, Great War, The: Myth and Memory
159n49, 159n50
Transcendentalism
52
transnational exchange, pre-war
160, 160n53, 170
Trompf, Gary
27
Tudor Pole, Wellesley (d.1968)
5, 13, 21
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá and
93â95, 100, 125, 126, 127â128, 135, 168â169
Baháʾà Faith and
95â96
Baháʾà message, function of
126
âBahaismâ, address on
126
biography
95, 95n80
as a bricoleur
93, 99
Browne and
96â97, 100
Celticism
81n13, 87, 89, 90, 92, 99
Chalice Well and
16, 93n70, 165â166
Christian renewal, Glastonbury and
87, 88
Christian worldview
13n51
Christianity and
93
Deanâs Yard meeting and
78, 82, 95
Eastonâs criticism, response to
146
Egypt, visit to Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá in
125, 127
esoteric leanings
92, 92n69
Fabian socialism and
90, 90n58
financial difficulties
91n64
First World War and
90n58, 164â165
Glastonbury and
92
Glastonbury Cup and
25, 78, 82, 84â89, 91, 165, 168
group prayer
126, 126n13
Hermeticism and
92, 94
Higher Thought Centre, address given at
125
interests
91
Jesus, perception of
169
messages from au delá
88, 88n49
mystical experiences
125n10
New Age movement
157, 165
perception of
157
prediction made by
95n80
quest for ancient manuscripts
87, 91, 93, 165, 168
self-assessment
92
Silent Minute campaign
126n13, 165
spiritualism
165
Theosophy and
84, 92, 94
Writing on the Ground
83n26, 100n103â105, 168n82â83
Turner, Frank
30â31
Tylor, E.B.
40
Primitive Culture
34
Third International Congress for the History of Religions
62
Union of Ethical Societies of America and England
127n16
Unitarian Manchester College
39
Unitarianism
39â40, 42
Universal Races Congress (1911)
20
van den Bosch, Lourens P.
34â35, 36
Vaswani, T.L. (d.1966)
112, 112n83
Vedanta
26, 137, 137n74
Vedanta Society, branches established
2, 3
Verhey, Jeffrey, Spirit of 1914, The
159n50
Verter, Bradford
26n109
Victoria, Queen
30
Victorians
Christian faith and
30â31
contemporary perception of
51â52
crisis of faith
12, 29â33, 36, 51, 52
New Reformation and
33, 52
social conflicts and
31
Vivekananda, Swami
2â3, 73, 74, 98
perception of
3, 157
Ramakrishna Mission established
3
Sister Nivedita and
112
Vedanta Society branches established
2, 3
visits to Britain
2â3
Western followers
73n86
Wilberforce and
80n10, 137, 147
Worldâs Parliament of Religions
3, 18, 58
von Keyserling, Herman (d.1946)
26
von Ranke, Leopold
152
von Stuckrad, Kocku
14, 15, 15n61, 15n63, 158
âEsoteric Discourse and the European History of Religionâ
155n36â38
Hanegraaffâs approach, views on
156n41
mnemohistory schema, views on
155â156
New Age movement
26
Western culture, views on
23, 156, 166
Vote, The
126n14
Warburg, Aby (d.1929)
22â23, 23n95, 150
âafterlifeâ (Nachleben) of cultural artefacts
22, 152, 152n19
Weber, Max, Sociology of Religion, The
32n22
Weekly Budget
162n62
Weidner, Daniel
153n21â22
Weinberg, Rob
96
Lady Blomfield: Her Life and Times
11
Western culture, von Stuckradâs views on
23, 156, 166
White, Hayden
14
Wiebe, Donald
35
Wilberforce, Basil, Archdeacon of Westminster
5, 13, 21
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá, perception of support for
142
Ê¿Abduâl-Bahá, visit to Westminster
74, 126, 137â139, 147
afterlife
163
biographies
13n50, 143
Campbell, support for
103n18, 105
criticism of
143â144
family background
80, 142n100
First World War, perception of
163
Glastonbury Cup and
82â83, 140, 140n91
interests
80, 83, 163
Lady Blomfield, spiritual mentor to
98
memorial poem
139
New Theology and
147
obituary
143
perception of
157
Theosophists and
80
Vedanta and
137
Vivekanada and
80n10, 137, 147
womenâs suffrage, support for
139
Deanâs Yard, Westminster
Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop
142n100
Wilberforce, William (d.1833)
80, 142n100
Woking Mosque
75, 75n96, 148
Womenâs Freedom League
116, 126n14
Womenâs International League for Peace and Freedom
167n79
Womenâs Peace Crusade
167n80
Wood, Edward
82n15
Worldâs Parliament of Religions (1893)
18, 37
Anglo-Protestant filter
59
British scholars and
54, 58n12
Carpenter and
18, 56â57, 61, 76
Dharmapala and
3, 18, 58
East, representatives from
60, 61, 75â76
filter and grid
58â61, 76, 100
important East-West encounter
58
Japanese Buddhist delegates
60n24
Max Müller and
18, 56, 57, 61, 76
religious pluralism and
58â59
scholars of religion
59n21, 59â60, 61, 76, 77
Seagerâs views on
58â59, 59n21, 59â60
Sharpeâs views on
58n12
underlying goal of
58â59
Vivekananda and
3, 18, 58
White City
59
worldview reflected by
59
Wright, Dudley (d.1949)
111, 131n41
Yeats, William Butler (d.1939)
89, 91
Young Turks Committee of Union and Progress
124