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Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade

Wedemeyer, Christian Doniger Wendy
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk

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9780195394337
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2010
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243 mm
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Wedemeyer, Christian
Doniger Wendy

Biographical note

Christian K. Wedemeyer is Assistant Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School

Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade

Wedemeyer, Christian Doniger Wendy
Innbundet / 2010 / Engelsk
Wedemeyer, Christian Doniger Wendy
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This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other. Shortly after Wach's death in 1955, Eliade succeeded him as the premiere historian of religions at the University of Chicago. As a result, the two have been associated with each other in many people's minds as the successive leaders of the so-called "Chicago School" in the history of religions. In fact, as this volume makes clear, there never was a monolithic Chicago School. Although Wach reportedly referred to Eliade as the most astute historian of religions of the day; the two never met, and their approaches to the study of religions differed significantly. Several dominant issues run through the essays collected here: the relationship between the two men's writings and their lives, and in Eliade's case, the relationship between his political commitments and his writings in fiction, history of religions, and autobiography. Both men's contributions to the field continue to provoke controversy and debate, and this volume sheds new light on these controversies and what they reveal about these two `scholars' legacies.
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This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other.
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Acknowledgments Introduction I: Two Scholars, a "School" and a Conference Christian K. Wedemeyer Introduction II: Life and Art, or Politics and Religion, in the Writings of Mircea Eliade Wendy Doniger Part One: Joachim Wach: Contexts, Categories, and Controversy Hans G. Kippenberg-Joachim Wach between the George-Circle and Weber's Typology of Religious Communities Steven M. Wasserstrom-The Master-Interpreter: Notes on the German Career of Joachim Wach (1922-1935) Gregory D. Alles-After the Naming Explosion: Joachim Wach's Unfinished Project Charles S. Preston-Wach, Radhakrishnan, and Relativism Part Two: Mircea Eliade: Literature and Politics Matei Calinescu-Eliade and Ionesco in the Post-World War II Years: Questions of Identity in Exile Daniel Dubuisson-The Poetical and Rhetorical Structure of the Eliadean Text: A Contribution to Critical Theory and Discourses on Religions Antoine Faivre-Modern Western Esoteric Currents in the Work of Mircea Eliade: The Extent and Limits of their Presence Moshe Idel-The Camouflaged Sacred in Mircea Eliade's Self-Perception, Literature, and Scholarship Bryan Rennie-The Influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology on Mircea Eliade's Understanding of Religion Jonathan Z. Smith-The Eternal Deferral Part Three: Mircea Eliade: Politics and Literature Florin Turcanu-South-East Europe and the Idea of the History of Religions in Mircea Eliade Elaine Fisher-Fascist Scholars, Fascist Scholarship: The Quest for Ur-Fascism and the Study of Religion Anne T. Mocko-Tracing the Red Thread: Anticommunist Themes in the Work of Mircea Eliade Carlo Ginzburg-Mircea Eliade's Ambivalent Legacy List of Contributors
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Selling point: Contributors to the volume are a renowned and diverse group of international scholars
CKW: Assistant Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School; WD: Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School
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Selling point: Contributors to the volume are a renowned and diverse group of international scholars

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This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other. Shortly after Wach's death in 1955, Eliade succeeded him as the premiere historian of religions at the University of Chicago. As a result, the two have been associated with each other in many people's minds as the successive leaders of the so-called "Chicago School" in the history of religions. In fact, as this volume makes clear, there never was a monolithic Chicago School. Although Wach reportedly referred to Eliade as the most astute historian of religions of the day; the two never met, and their approaches to the study of religions differed significantly. Several dominant issues run through the essays collected here: the relationship between the two men's writings and their lives, and in Eliade's case, the relationship between his political commitments and his writings in fiction, history of religions, and autobiography. Both men's contributions to the field continue to provoke controversy and debate, and this volume sheds new light on these controversies and what they reveal about these two `scholars' legacies.
Les mer
This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other.
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Acknowledgments Introduction I: Two Scholars, a "School" and a Conference Christian K. Wedemeyer Introduction II: Life and Art, or Politics and Religion, in the Writings of Mircea Eliade Wendy Doniger Part One: Joachim Wach: Contexts, Categories, and Controversy Hans G. Kippenberg-Joachim Wach between the George-Circle and Weber's Typology of Religious Communities Steven M. Wasserstrom-The Master-Interpreter: Notes on the German Career of Joachim Wach (1922-1935) Gregory D. Alles-After the Naming Explosion: Joachim Wach's Unfinished Project Charles S. Preston-Wach, Radhakrishnan, and Relativism Part Two: Mircea Eliade: Literature and Politics Matei Calinescu-Eliade and Ionesco in the Post-World War II Years: Questions of Identity in Exile Daniel Dubuisson-The Poetical and Rhetorical Structure of the Eliadean Text: A Contribution to Critical Theory and Discourses on Religions Antoine Faivre-Modern Western Esoteric Currents in the Work of Mircea Eliade: The Extent and Limits of their Presence Moshe Idel-The Camouflaged Sacred in Mircea Eliade's Self-Perception, Literature, and Scholarship Bryan Rennie-The Influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology on Mircea Eliade's Understanding of Religion Jonathan Z. Smith-The Eternal Deferral Part Three: Mircea Eliade: Politics and Literature Florin Turcanu-South-East Europe and the Idea of the History of Religions in Mircea Eliade Elaine Fisher-Fascist Scholars, Fascist Scholarship: The Quest for Ur-Fascism and the Study of Religion Anne T. Mocko-Tracing the Red Thread: Anticommunist Themes in the Work of Mircea Eliade Carlo Ginzburg-Mircea Eliade's Ambivalent Legacy List of Contributors
Les mer
Selling point: Contributors to the volume are a renowned and diverse group of international scholars
CKW: Assistant Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School; WD: Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School
Les mer
Selling point: Contributors to the volume are a renowned and diverse group of international scholars

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780195394337
Publisert
2010
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
635 gr
Høyde
243 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Wedemeyer, Christian
Doniger Wendy

Biographical note

Christian K. Wedemeyer is Assistant Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School

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