Hermeneutics, politics, and the history of religions : the contested legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade / edited by Christian Wedemeyer and Wendy Doniger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wedemeyer, Christian K.

Doniger, Wendy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics--Congresses.

Hermeneutics.

Political science--Congresses.

Political science.

Religion--Congresses.

Religion.

Wach, Joachim, 1898-1955--Congresses.

Wach, Joachim.

Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986--Congresses.

Eliade, Mircea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction I: Two Scholars, a ""School,"" and a Conference; Introduction II: Life and Art, or Politics and Religion, in the Writings of Mircea Eliade; Part I: Joachim Wach: Contexts, Categories, and Controversy; 1. Joachim Wach between the George Circle and Weber's Typology of Religious Communities; 2. The Master-Interpreter: Notes on the German Career of Joachim Wach (1922-1935); 3. After the Naming Explosion: Joachim Wach's Unfinished Project; 4. Wach, Radhakrishnan, and Relativism; Part II: Mircea Eliade: Literature and Politics

5. Eliade and Ionesco in the Post-World War II Years: Questions of Identity in Exile6. The Poetical and Rhetorical Structure of the Eliadean Text: A Contribution to Critical Theory and Discourses on Religions; 7. Modern Western Esoteric Currents in the Work of Mircea Eliade: The Extent and Limits of Their Presence; 8. The Camouflaged Sacred in Mircea Eliade's Self-Perception, Literature, and Scholarship; 9. The Influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology on Mircea Eliade's Understanding of Religion; 10. The Eternal Deferral; Part III: Mircea Eliade: Politics and Literature

11. Southeast Europe and the Idea of the History of Religions in Mircea Eliade12. Fascist Scholars, Fascist Scholarship: The Quest for Ur-Fascism and the Study of Religion; 13. Tracing the Red Thread: Anti-Communist Themes in the Work of Mircea Eliade; 14. Mircea Eliade's Ambivalent Legacy; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Proceedings of a conference held Nov. 3-4, 2006 at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-539434-8

9786612465871

1-282-46587-2

0-19-974527-7

OCLC:

551147776