Roman Reflections : The History of Religions Revisited by the School of Rome / edited by Vinciane Constantin, Frédéric Richard, Raphael Rousseleau, and Amélie Stuby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Constantin, Vinciane, editor.

Richard, Frédéric, editor.

Rousseleau, Raphael, editor.

Stuby, Amélie, editor.

Series:

Numen Book Series ; 184.

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Numen Book Series ; 184

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The History of Religions Revisited by the School of Rome

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ‘Roman School’ of History of Religions developed a historicist approach grounded in historical and social contextualization, differential comparison and critical reflection over their own concepts. In this book, Historians of Religions and Anthropologists demonstrate the relevance of this legacy for contemporary research, at a time when the History of Religions, rightly focusing on its own discursive critique, tends nonetheless to give up any comparison. The editors and contributors of this volume defend the possibility of more complex questions, and open up new insights in historiographical issues as well as historico-cultural analysis.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Contemporary Issues in and the Legacy of the Roman School of History of Religions

Part 1 Debates, Methodological Trajectories and Objects of Study

1 Against History, in Favour of History: New Horizons and the Anti-Phenomenological Controversy after Pettazzoni’s Death

Paolo Scarpi

2 Reconsidering the Role of “Primitive” Religions: Raffaele Pettazzoni and the Italian History of Religions

Sergio Botta

Part 2 Differential Comparison

3 What Comparison in the “Globalization Era”

Nicolà Gasbarro

4 The Comparative Approach in the Anthropological Theory of Mediation

Paula Montero

5 Civilizations and Religions: Genealogy and Heritage of the History of Religions between Modern History and Mission History (Europe, America, and Asia)

Adone Agnolin

6 Night Travelers: the Dream Masters (Poraja, India) as a Vernacular Historical Formation

Raphaël Rousseleau

Part 3 Functional Dissociation between Myth and Rite

7 Exploring Vedic Ritual Mythologies: a Methodological Discourse on Ritual and Myth across Rome, Paris, India, and the United States

Marianna Ferrara

8 Buddhism Reconsidered from the Historico-religious Perspective

Frédéric Richard

Part 4 The Praxis of Ritual and Its Efficacy

9 The Powers of Ritual: Ernesto de Martino’s Encounter with Pragmatism

Vinciane Constantin

10 Can the History of Religions Benefit from the Study of Hypnotic States and Research on Psychedelics?

Silvia Mancini

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004761070

OCLC:

1611783779

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004761070 DOI