Thursday, June 18, 2015

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





This volume accommodates 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 rethink both the problematic, separate legacies of those two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of those two legacies upon each and every different. In a while after Wach’s death in 1955, Eliade succeeded him because the premiere historian of religions on the University of Chicago. Because of this, the 2 have been related to each and every different in many of us’s minds because the successive leaders of the so-referred to as “Chicago College” within the history of religions. If truth be told, as this volume makes transparent, there never used to be a monolithic Chicago College. Even supposing Wach reportedly referred to Eliade as essentially the most astute historian of religions of the day; the 2 never met, and their approaches to the have a look at of religions differed considerably. A few dominant problems run during the essays collected here: the connection between the 2 men’s writings and their lives, and in Eliade’s case, the connection between his political commitments and his writings in fiction, history of religions, and autobiography. Both men’s contributions to the sphere continue to impress controversy and debate, and this volume sheds new gentle on these controversies and what they reveal about these two `students’ legacies.


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


This volume accommodates 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 rethink both the problematic, separate legacies of those two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the

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