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- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 328 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Hermeneutics, politics, and the history of religions (Online)
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- Note
- Proceedings of a conference held Nov. 3-4, 2006 at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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 -- Pt. I. Joachim Wach : contexts, categories, and controversy. Joachim Wach between the George circle and Weber's typology of religious communities / Hans G. Kippenberg -- The master-interpreter : notes on the German career of Joachim Wach (1922-1935) / Steven M. Wasserstrom -- After the naming explosion : Joachim Wach's unfinished project / Gregory D. Alles -- Wach, Radhakrishnan, and relativism / Charles S. Preston -- Pt. II. Mircea Eliade : literature and politics. Eliade and Ionesco in the post-World War II years : questions of identity in exile / Matei Calinescu -- The poetical and rhetorical structure of the Eliadean text : a contribution to critical theory and discourses on religions / Daniel Dubuisson -- Modern Western esoteric currents in the work of Mircea Eliade : the extent and limits of their presence / Antoine Faivre -- The camouflaged sacred in Mircea Eliade's self-perception, literature, and scholarship / Moshe Idel -- The influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian theology on Mircea Eliade's understanding of religion / Bryan Rennie -- The eternal deferral / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Pt. III. Mircea Eliade : politics and literature. Southeast Europe and the idea of the history of religions in Mircea Eliade / Florin Turcanu -- Fascist scholars, fascist scholarship : the quest for ur-fascism and the study of religion / Elaine Fisher -- Tracing the red thread : anti-communist themes in the work of Mircea Eliade / Anne T. Mocko -- Mircea Eliade's ambivalent legacy / Carlo Ginzburg.
- LCCN
- 2009018925
- OCLC
- ssj0000338560
- Title
Hermeneutics, politics, and the history of religions [electronic resource] : the contested legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade / edited by Christian K. Wedemeyer and Wendy Doniger.
- Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Wedemeyer, Christian K.
Doniger, Wendy.