MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 090511s2010 nyu b 101 0 eng
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020 $a9780195394337 (hardcover)
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050 00 $aBD241$b.H369 2010
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245 00 $aHermeneutics, politics, and the history of religions :$bthe contested legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade /$cedited by Christian K. Wedemeyer and Wendy Doniger.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2010.
300 $axxxiv, 328 p. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aProceedings of a conference held Nov. 3-4, 2006 at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction 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.
650 0 $aHermeneutics$vCongresses.
650 0 $aPolitical science$vCongresses.
650 0 $aReligion$vCongresses.
600 10 $aWach, Joachim,$d1898-1955$vCongresses.
600 10 $aEliade, Mircea,$d1907-1986$vCongresses.
700 1 $aWedemeyer, Christian K.
700 1 $aDoniger, Wendy.